Hotel Designs Industry News: Gidleigh Park

News - 16th May 2003

Gidleigh Park

Complaints at Gidleigh Park come apparently from owners of low-slung sports cars such as Lamborghini’s, whose cars ground on the speed bumps on the drive to the hotel. As the road itself is so narrow and typically Devonian with the high banks that you touch with your car at your peril because their skin of wildflowers hides great boulders of Dartmoor granite, speed does not seem an issue here. The road goes only to the hotel, past the manor house, the orchard, over the rivers that pour off the Moor, winding on with the occasional passing place. You drive heart in mouth, slowly, hoping not to meet anyone coming the other way, both side mirrors brushing the undergrowth on the banks each side at the same time, until suddenly the view opens up to reveal the hotel.

To read this article in full join the DesignClub now. This and other news articles, together with our ‘Ask the Experts’ column and our photo Gallery of hotel interiors, are available for an annual subscription of less than £1 a week.