A great garden escape to The Newt in Somerset

Take a first-class train to the West Country and enjoy a supremely decadent day out

The Newt in Somerset’s great garden escape

The Newt in Somerset is the sort of country house hotel that makes even hardened travel writers lose their collective minds.

Created by South African couple Koos Bekker and Karen Roos, it’s exactly the sort of place you imagine a telecoms billionaire and the former editor of Elle Decoration would create: the best and most beautiful of everything, nestled into 300 magnificent acres of Somerset farm and forestland. Remarkably, as with Babylonstoren, their other (jaw-dropping) hotel / estate / vineyard in South Africa, Bekker and Roos cheerfully let the world share their vision(s) rather than lock them away behind state-of-the-art security fences. It’s not often a £500-a-night stay feels something like an act of generosity, so that’s quite a feat.

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