Every British hotel that has been awarded a Michelin Key for excellent hospitality

If you expect the utmost excellence from every hotel you stay in, there is a way to ensure that’s exactly what you get. Like Michelin stars, Michelin keys are a distinction awarded to places that demonstrate beautiful design, top-quality service and an outstanding guest experience. The only difference is, they’re handed out to hotels, not restaurants. 

Michelin keys are now in their third year and a new batch has just been handed out to 14 hotels across the UK. Eleven received one key, which indicates ‘truly great hospitality’, while three hotels got two keys, which is for places ‘unique and exceptional in every way’. None earned three keys, which is the highest honour a hotel can possibly get from Michelin. Only nine hotels in the whole country have been bestowed with that accolade. 

Outside of London, the newest two-key hotels in the country are Gleneagles Townhouse in Edinburgh and Cromlix Hotel in Stirlingshire. With its Georgian elegance, chic design, lush wellness space and immaculate food, Time Out recently crowned Gleneagles Townhouse the finest hotel in the UK. Our Edinburgh writer Dayna McAlpine called it a ‘masterclass in hospitality and style’.  

Cromlix Hotel is owned by none other than Sir Andy Murray and has been a labour of love for the tennis star since he bought it in 2013. Set in 34 acres of remote woodlands and garden, it offers just 20 rooms, classic country house activities and tennis courts (obviously), as well as a new sauna and cold plunge. 

Among the latest one-key recipients were Tillingham Winery in Rye, a romantic stay within a working vineyard; Fowlescombe Farm in Ivybridge, where you can help feed livestock, bake bread and forage for herbs; and LYLA Restaurant and Rooms in Edinburgh, which also happens to have a Michelin star.  

The other keys went to Manor House Lindley in Huddersfield, Seaham Hall Hotel on the Durham coast, the Priory Wareham in Dorset, the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews and the Torridon in the small village of Torridon in the north Highlands.  

On top of all of those, four hotels in London were awarded keys. You can read all about those here.

Every Michelin Key hotel in the UK 2026

Three keys 

• Bruton: The Newt in Somerset
• Colerne: Lucknam Park, Emblems Collection
• London: Claridge's
• London: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
• London: Raffles London at The OWO
• London: The Connaught
• London: The Peninsula London
• London: The Savoy
• Auchterarder: The Gleneagles Hotel

Two keys 

• Ascot: Coworth Park, Dorchester Collection
• Aughton: Moor Hall
• Bath: The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa
• Chagford: Gidleigh Park
• East Grinstead: Gravetye Manor
• Exmouth: Lympstone Manor
• Hampton-in-Arden: Hampton Manor
• Heckfield: Heckfield Place
• Leatherhead: Beaverbrook Surrey
• Lechlade: Thyme
• London: Brown's Hotel, a Rocco Forte Hotel
• London: Bvlgari Hotel London
• London: Corinthia Hotel London
• London: Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane
• London: 45 Park Lane, Dorchester Collection
• London: Ham Yard Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
• London: Haymarket Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
• London: Hotel Café Royal
• London: Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London
• London: Rosewood London
• London: The Beaumont Hotel
• London: The Berkeley
• London: The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, London
• London: The Chancery Rosewood – New
• London: The Dorchester, Dorchester Collection
• London: The Lanesborough
• London: The Langham, London
• London: The Ritz London
• London: The Twenty Two
• Lyndhurst: Lime Wood Hotel
• Malmesbury: Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa
• New Milton: Chewton Glen Hotel
• Ripon: Grantley Hall
• Rutland: Hambleton Hall
• Taplow: Cliveden House
• Whitby: Saltmoore
• Windermere: Gilpin Hotel & Lake House
• Windermere: The Samling Hotel
• Braemar: The Fife Arms
• Edinburgh: Gleneagles Townhouse – New
• Edinburgh: The Balmoral
• Stirlingshire: Cromlix Hotel – New

One key 

• Amberley: Amberley Castle
• Bakewell: The Cavendish Hotel at Baslow
• Bath: Bath Priory
• Bath: Homewood
• Bath: The Gainsborough Bath Spa
• Bath: The Queensberry Hotel
• Bath: The Yard, Bath
• Beadnell: Beadnell Towers Hotel
• Bideford: The Collective at Woolsery
• Brampton: Farlam Hall Hotel & Restaurant
• Brighton: Artist Residence Brighton
• Bristol: Artist Residence Bristol
• Bristol: Number 38 Clifton
• Burford: BULL Burford
• Camber: The Gallivant
• Cheltenham: Cowley Manor Experimental
• Egham: Great Fosters
• Grasmere: Forest Side Hotel
• Hampshire: Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire
• Hastings: The Old Rectory
• Horsham: Leonardslee House at Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens
• Huddersfield: Manor House Lindley – New
• Ivybridge: Fowlescombe Farm – New
• Langham: The Harper Langham
• London: ...At Sloane
• London: Artist Residence London
• London: Beaverbrook Town House
• London: Broadwick Soho
• London: Charlotte Street Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
• London: COMO The Halkin
• London: Covent Garden Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
• London: Flemings Mayfair
• London: Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge
• London: L'oscar London
• London: NoMad London
• London: Number Sixteen, Firmdale Hotels
• London: One Aldwych
• London: 1 Hotel Mayfair
• London: Pan Pacific London – New
• London: Redchurch Townhouse
• London: Shangri-La The Shard London
• London: Six Senses London – New
• London: Sofitel London St James
• London: The Adria
• London: The Emory
• London: The Newman – New
• London: The Soho Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
• Oxford: Artist Residence Oxfordshire
• Oxford: Old Parsonage Hotel
• Padstow: Padstow Townhouse
• Rye: Tillingham Winery – New
• Seaham: Seaham Hall Hotel – New
• Southwold: The Swan Southwold
• St Mawes: The Idle Rocks
• St Mawes: Hotel Tresanton
• Thornbury: Thornbury Castle
• Wareham: Priory Wareham – New
• West Cornwall: Artist Residence Cornwall
• Willesborough: Boys Hall
• Windermere: Linthwaite House Hotel
• Woodstock: The Feathers Hotel at Woodstock
• Ballantrae: Glenapp Castle
• Cumnock: Dumfries House Lodge
• Dornoch: Links House at Royal Dornoch
• Edinburgh: LYLA Restaurant & Rooms – New
• Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
• Edinburgh: Prestonfield Edinburgh
• Foyers: Foyers Lodge
• Grandtully: The Grandtully Hotel by Ballintaggart
• Isle of Skye – Sleat: Kinloch Lodge
• Resolis: Newhall Mains Dingwall
• St Andrews: Old Course Hotel Golf Resort and Spa – New
• Tain: Glenmorangie House
• Torridon: The Torridon – New
• Bala: Palé Hall
• Dolgellau: Penmaenuchaf
• Narberth: Grove of Narberth
• Belfast: Regency House Belfast

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