One of our favorite guests and very loyal friend of Gliffaes, Ken Phillips asked us to a arrange a private dinner in the Drawing Room for his wife’s birthday. “My pleasure”, I said. “What would you like to have on the menu?” “I’ll leave it up to you James, but I would like four courses [...]

Your Party, Your Wedding, Your Celebration – Our Pleasure Gliffaes is the perfect place to hold your party or celebration. A 50th Birthday Lunch, a Christening Tea or indeed a Wedding we have hosted them all and a few others to.  Standing on our sunny terrace with a glass of Champagne gazing over the river [...]

Every once in a while some generous individual decides to throw aparty for his or her friends, nothing too unusual about this you might think. But when your host decides to take over the whole hotel for a weekend and treat his friends to what is, in effect, a giant house party – that is [...]

What a difference the weather makes to running a hotel in the country. The sun comes out and the first thing to be done is not sort out the parasols on the terrace but rush to the boiler and turn down the heating, that is the first sign of spring for an oil burning hotelier [...]