The hotel lies within easy reach of several tourist attractions, and our staff will be pleased to help you plan that special day out.

Chiltern Open Air Museum

Chiltern Open Air Museum was founded in 1976, with the aim of rescuing threatened buildings and re-erecting them on our forty-five acre site of natural park, meadow and woodland, thereby preserving a variety of structures of historical interest, which are typical of the region.

John Milton’s Cottage

Milton’s Cottage in Chalfont St Giles is the only surviving building in which the famous writer is known to have lived.  To prevent it being demolished and rebuilt in the USA in 1887, it was bought for the British by public subscription, including £20 donated by Queen Victoria.  Milton came to Chalfont St Giles to escape the Great Plague of London in 1665.  It was in this picturesque cottage that he completed Paradise Lost and the sequel Paradise Regained.  Now open to the public, the Grade I Listed Building contains many relics and exhibits of interest.  The cottage has an attractive garden with a free car park nearby.

Bekonscot Model Village

Be a giant in this miniature wonderland “a little piece of history that is for ever England.”  There's fun and fascination for everyone in this dainty and delightful world, created in 1929 as one man's hobby.  Six Charming villages are laid out in a 1½ acre miniature landscape of farms and fields, castles and churches, woods and lakes depicting England as it was in the 1930's.  A complex Gauge 1 railway links the Villages, serving seven stations

Whipsnade Zoo

The Park covers 600 acres of Parkland which you can tour by foot, free safari tour bus, car or on the Great Whipsnade Railway.  There are around 150 different species and 3,000 animals to see at Whipsnade.