Bed and breakfasts are the quintessential British lodging: Small, family-run, with a proper English breakfast and often a lovely afternoon tea.
General: B-bs
There are dozens of hotel alternatives, from London flats to country cottages, farmhouse B&Bs to university dorms, rental rooms to residences, and campgrounds to castles. Here's how to find the lot of them.
A real 17C thatched farmhouse just outside the famously quaint village of Lacock, 14 miles E of Bath
A postcard-worthy Victorian B&B in Notting Hill between Hyde Park and Portobello Road
One of the best of the dozen B&Bs along this stretch of road just N of the city center
A gorgeous Victorian B&B—not very central, but wonderfully welcoming, stylish, and convenient to the A4 for motorists
A lovely little B&B with views of Salisbury's cathedral spire
A small, traditional British B&B in an elegant Victorian just south of the city centre
A two-room B&B on a quite cobbled alley around the corner from Bath Abbey
Exposed timbered ceilings in an 18C barn 5 miles outside Oxford
Eight elegant, bookish-themed B&B rooms above a gourmet pub in Clerkenwell
Perhaps the nicest B&B in London—though not the most central (in Hammersmith and Fulham)
Comfy beds and a vegetarian breakfast on the western edge of the village
A stylish townhouse B&B a 10-minute stroll south of the center
A B&B with a billiards room and bar just north of Avebury's stone circle
