Thyme – Hotel, Restaurant, Spa
Hotel · Southrop ·
Cooking school, spa, pub & rooms on 150 acres; farm-to-table dining
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Southrop Manor, Thyme, Gloucestershire GL7 3NX, United Kingdom Get directions
Cooking school, spa, pub & rooms on 150 acres; farm-to-table dining
Southrop Manor, Thyme, Gloucestershire GL7 3NX, United Kingdom Get directions
"Family-owned and rooted at Southrop Manor, it’s both a home and a business for founder Caryn Hibbert, who raised her family here before converting a handful of run-down farm buildings on the surrounding estate into a thriving hotel, restaurant, and cooking school. Today, her daughter Camilla is the general manager and her eldest son Charlie is the chef director of the fine dining Ox Barn and the lively village pub, the Swan. The feel is warmly homey and quintessentially English—think buttoned wool armchairs, roll-top tubs, and botanical-print textiles by Bertioli, the interiors and lifestyle company run by Caryn and Camilla—while the 150 acres of gardens, farmland, water meadows, and riverbanks are there for guests to explore. Amenities include a restaurant, bar, pub, spa, pool, cooking school, and workshops, and even if you aren’t staying, it’s worth booking dinner at the Ox Barn for a Mediterranean-inspired menu that draws on estate ingredients and a soaring dining room in a former Victorian oxen house that’s among the most beautiful in the Cotswolds." - Jo Rodgers
"Set in Southrop in Gloucestershire, Thyme is a family-owned cooking school–slash–hotel and spa where I enjoyed the sense of English charm across 150 acres of gardens and trails; in December the property runs holiday-themed cooking classes and a wreath-making workshop, and the 31 rooms feature floral wallpaper, antique décor, and claw-foot tubs." - Matt Ortile
"A charming hotel in the English Cotswolds, part of the World of Hyatt program through a partnership with Mr & Mrs Smith."
"Thyme is a sprawling estate within the village of Southrop that is nominally a hotel, but feels more like its own, self-contained hamlet. Having evolved from a cookery school, it is now a 150-acre paradise encompassing a farm, restaurant, pub, spa, and 31 rooms spread across various barns, manor houses, and outbuildings." - Liam Hess
"An hour from London by train, Thyme is a 150-acre Cotswolds estate that oozes English countryside charm. Dispersed between houses and cottages, the individually designed rooms feature bold floral wallpaper, cheery color palettes, and bouquets of fresh wildflowers. The Meadow Spa offers a range of body and facial treatments, formulated in conjunction with in-house beauty brand, Bertioli, but the specialty might be the Botanical Bothy Signature Ritual, which focuses on guided breathwork and pressure point techniques to release tension and rebalance energy channels. Located in a 19th-century former ox barn, the onsite restaurant cooks up menus inspired by the season and the local harvest, with dishes like roast mutton, grilled asparagus, and cocoa beans, or lemon sole with capers, monks beard, and brown butter." - CNT Editors