What’s Going On?

Find out what’s happening in and around the hotel and the grounds. What with the river, fishing, all the trees and the gardens there is a lot happening through out the seasons and that’s before we get inside the front door of the hotel. If something of note has occured or there is an event worth flagging up locally I will write about here.

Just thought this was the prefect place for a real break - beautiful views, excellent food, friendly but unobtrusive service. Don\'t change a thing.

Mary-Jean Boyd-Carpenter Sept 2011
counting tree rings gliffaes country house hotel

Trees, Woods and Firewood.

Trees and Woodland at Gliffaes Of  the 33 acres of ground at Gliffaes a good deal of it is planted over with trees. A lot of this is on steep sloping ground where we are starting to thin out the hazel and sycamore which has been badly damaged by squirrels over the years. This will let the [...]

vintage bentley at Gliffaes Country House Hotel

Vintage Bentleys at Gliffaes

Winter Car Rally a Success The roar of the huge 8 litre engines announced the arrival of a group of vintage Bentley owners as they arrived at Gliffaes for the first stage of their Winter Rally. This is the second time that we have hosted this very cheery bunch of car enthusiasts who I am pleased [...]

 
autumn colour at gliffaes country house hotel

Autumn still going strong

What an amazing Autumn..and still going on. It is the middle of November and the colours on the magnificent trees at Gliffaes are still something to behold. By rights we should have had a frost or two by now and most of the trees would have turned or dropped their leaves by now. However, the [...]

wild swimming in the usk at gliffaes country house hotel

Wild Swimming at Gliffaes

Come on in…..the water’s lovely. “Wild swimming’ is meant to be all the rage right now but to my mind nothing has changed, it is still just a lovely refreshing swim with in the wild, same as it ever was. No crowds, no chlorine, no ‘heavy petting’ and no bombing. Even though the river Usk [...]