Beaverbrook Hotel & Spa

The former home of the party-loving press magnate and namesake lord, Beaverbrook Hotel & Spa in the Surrey Hills has welcomed its fair share of revellers over the years. Now that it’s a hotel, you’re invited, too – for cocktails on the terrace (with one of the most glorious views in all of the British countryside stretching out before you), Japanese food in the garden and a lesson in how to make a grand, high-ceilinged mansion look impossibly cosy and impeccably well-designed for modernity and beyond.