With more of us than ever taking breaks around Britain, where we stay has become increasingly important. 

This week, The Sunday Times has revealed its definitive list of the 100 best places to stay spread throughout the country, with nine hotels around Scotland making their mark on the prestigious list.

Taybank in Highland Perthshire is the best place to stay in Scotland, according to The Sunday Times. 

Based on the banks of the Tay in the village of Dunkeld, the owner Fraser Potter used to drink at The Taybank as a teen and has now transformed the former pub into a buzzing new boutique hotel.

Jeremy Lazell, travel editor Scotland for The Times and The Sunday Times, said: “Take one trad music bar in Highland Perthshire’s prettiest town, add a can-do new owner, and what you get is this buzzing five-bedroom Dunkeld hotel, right on the banks of the Tay. 

“Cracking food, riverfront beer garden and Scandi-chic makeover – it’s exactly the hotel this exceptional location deserves.”

Loch Lomond’s Cameron House, which reopened last month after a fire ripped through the main building in 2017 won the coveted prize for Best Family Hotel in the national awards. 

The Sunday Times Best Places to Stay guide called it ‘a grand Loch Lomond mansion that’s a treat for couples and families’.

It is described as a 1830s Scots baronial mansion on the banks of Loch Lomond and ‘a cracking high-end resort for families with deep pockets’.

The full guide is split into eight regions: London, Southeast, Southwest, Central, East, North, Wales and Scotland and there are also winners in eight different categories; Budget, B&B, Foodie, Family, Coastal, Pub, Country and Romantic. 

The guide focuses on hotels with the essentials of comfort, great service and value, as well as personality and warmth.

 

Here are the top 100 British hotels:

 

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Scotland

  • Cameron House, West Dunbartonshire, price per night from £265
  • Cathedral House, Glasgow, price per night from £80
  • Foyers Lodge, Inverness, price per night from £140
  • House of Gods, Edinburgh, price per night from £120
  • Meldrum House, Aberdeenshire, price per night from £140
  • Rusacks St Andrews, Fife, price per night from £219
  • Taybank, Dunkeld, price per night from £150
  • The Dundonald, Fife, price per night from £120
  • The Pierhouse, Argyll & Bute, price per night from £180

North

  • Alice Hawthorn, Yorkshire, price per night from £120
  • Baltic Hotel, Liverpool, price per night from £65
  • Cartford Inn, Lancashire, price per night from £150
  • Grantley Hall, Yorkshire, price per night from £500
  • Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool, price per night from £150
  • Innside, Newcastle, price per night from £69
  • Kimpton Clocktower, Manchester, price per night from £125
  • Malmaison, York, price per night from £135
  • Marshall Meadows, Northumberland, price per night from £175
  • Moor Hall, Lancashire, price per night from £220
  • Northcote, Lancashire, price per night from £120
  • Queens Hotel, Leeds, price per night from £93
  • Stock Exchange, Manchester, price per night from £179
  • The Beaumont, Northumberland, price per night from £100
  • The Gilpin, Cumbria, price per night from £295
  • The Ro, Cumbria, price per night from £135

East

  • Birch, Hertfordshire, price per night from £150
  • Cricketers, Essex, price per night from £140
  • Sculthorpe Mill, Norfolk, price per night from £110
  • The Blakeney, Norfolk, price per night from £308
  • The Brisley Bell, Norfolk, price per night from £132
  • The Fellows House, Cambridge, price per night from £170
  • The Harper, Norfolk, price per night from £175

Central

  • Bottle and Glass, Oxfordshire, price per night from £120
  • Callow Hall, Derbyshire, price per night from £179
  • Crockers at Henley, Oxfordshire, price per night from £450
  • Fawsley Hall, Northamptonshire, price per night from £221
  • Grand Hotel, Birmingham, price per night from £129
  • Hoar Cross Hall, Staffordshire, price per night from £335
  • Horwood House, Buckinghamshire, price per night from £179
  • Ingleside House, Gloucestershire, price per night from £116
  • Lemore, Herefordshire, price per night from £129
  • Pensons, Herefordshire, price per night from £400
  • Telegraph Hotel, Coventry, price per night from £85
  • The Bear Inn, Shropshire, price per night from £110
  • The Buxton Crescent Hotel, Derbyshire, price per night from £115
  • The Double Red Duke, Oxfordshire, price per night from £120
  • The Falcon, Northamptonshire, price per night from £150
  • The Lamb, Oxfordshire, price per night from £60
  • The New Inn, Gloucestershire, price per night from £105
  • The Randolph Graduate, Oxford, price per night from £229
  • The Tawny, Staffordshire, price per night from £230
  • Thyme, Gloucestershire, price per night from £340

Southeast

  • Goodwood Estate, West Sussex, price per night from £130
  • Hotel du Vin, Brighton, price per night from £109
  • Kings Arms, Surrey, price per night from £105
  • Oakley Court, Berkshire, price per night from £275
  • Pig In South Downs, West Sussex, price per night from £145
  • Port Hotel, East Sussex, price per night from £140
  • St Leonards, Kent, price per night from £120
  • The Bell, East Sussex, price per night from £125
  • The Gallivant, East Sussex, price per night from £223
  • The Loch and The Tyne, Berkshire, price per night from £187
  • The Pink House, Margate, price per night from £185
  • The Star, East Sussex, price per night from £190

London

  • Beaverbrook Townhouse, Chelsea, price per night from £450
  • Guardsman, Buckingham Gate, price per night from £250
  • Hart Shoreditch, price per night from £125
  • Lime Tree, Pimlico, price per night from £195
  • Lost Poet, Portobello, price per night from £200
  • Mayfair Townhouse, Mayfair, price per night from £252
  • Middle Eight, Covent Garden, price per night from £250
  • Montcalm East, Shoreditch, price per night from £199
  • NoMad, Covent Garden, price per night from £480
  • Pan Pacific, Bishopsgate, price per night from £325

Southwest

  • Bird & Carter, Wiltshire, price per night from £90
  • Bodmin Jail Hotel, Cornwall, price per night from £130
  • Bradley Hare, Wiltshire, price per night from £115
  • Coombeshead Farm, Cornwall, price per night from £195
  • Farmyard at the Newt, Somerset, price per night from £475
  • Glebe House, Devon, price per night from £129
  • Harbour Beach Club, Salcombe price per night from £183
  • Mollie’s Motel, Bristol, price per night from £55
  • Oceanside, Cornwall, price per night from £120
  • Queens Arms, Somerset, price per night from £120
  • Rock Point, Dorset, price per night from £155
  • The Bull Inn, Devon, price per night from £120
  • The Esplanade, Cornwall, price per night from £160
  • The Headland, Newquay, price per night from £185
  • The Pig at Harlyn Bay, Cornwall, price per night from £150
  • The Yard, Bath, price per night from £95
  • Thornbury Castle, Bristol, price per night from £249
  • Watergate Bay, Bristol, price per night from £180

Wales

  • Bodysgallen, Conwy, price per night from £235
  • Grove of Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, price per night from £260
  • Plas Weunydd, Gwynedd, price per night from £105
  • The Angel, Monmouthshire, price per night from £145
  • The Royston, Powys, price per night from £128