The company, known for its Michelin Guide and Michelin-starred restaurants, has extended its new Michelin Key distinction to Great Britain & Ireland. 123 hotels in the UK and Ireland have been awarded Michelin Keys by the Michelin Guide inspection team based on anonymous stays or visits. Michelin said that the destinations ‘offer the most outstanding stays throughout the countries’.
As is the case with Michelin stars, the awarding of Michelin Keys is selective, with just 14 hotels boasting three Keys across the UK and Ireland. 37 hotels have two Michelin Keys, while 72 have one. Hotels with three Michelin Keys Many of the UK and Ireland’s three-Michelin-Key hotels are located in London.
However, some are located elsewhere, including Lucknam Park. The hotel near Corsham joins an elite group of three-Michelin-Key hotels in the UK and Ireland that includes the Savoy, Claridge's and Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxfordshire. “The hotel’s 29 rooms and 13 suites, newly and massively renovated, are stuffed to the gills with atmosphere and antiques,” the Michelin Guide said of Lucknam Park.
“Though more aggressively comfortable than overweeningly opulent, there is no show of restraint in the décor.” Hotels with two Michelin Keys Hotels in the area that have been awarded two Michelin Keys include Thyme on the Southrop Manor Estate. “Thyme styles itself a ‘village within a village’ - hotelier Caryn Hibbert bought Southrop Manor some two decades ago and set to wo.