Hot tub time: Set the mood to ‘chill out’ with an impromptu sound bath using the house chau gong, then slip into the wood-lined hot tub positioned on a sweeping first-floor sun deck.
Hot tub time: The perfect warm-up after your wild swim, the outdoor barrel hot tub is surrounded by blooms, grasses and boulders in an effortlessly chic arrangement.
Grade II-listed and gorgeously renovated, picture-perfect Cuckney House is set on the former Duke of Portland’s Welbeck Estate, one of the country’s most epic private properties — home to white fallow deer, underground tunnels and the grandiose Welbeck Abbey mansion, dating to the 12th century.
It tune with Bestival’s bohemian MO, Carnivàle feels like a Goa beach house, with checkerboard tiling surrounding a turquoise pool, a window-lined lounge with bright bursts of electric colour and an open-plan kitchen with communal dining benches.
Whatever the draw, it seems like everyone is obsessed with hot tubs, with many Londoners swearing they wouldn’t book a self-catering getaway without one.
