Belstead Brook Hotel

Featuring a leisure club and indoor swimming pool, this hotel is 6 minutes’ drive from the A14 in suburban Ipswich. The Belstead Brook Muthu Hotel is built around a 16th Century hunting lodge, with extensive lawned gardens and its own restaurant and bar.

Each bedroom at the Belstead Brook comes traditionally decorated with an en-suite bathroom. Rooms include a flat-screen TV, tea and coffee making facilities, iron and ironing board, and a trouser press.

The hotel offers spa and beauty treatments in the leisure club, which must be booked prior to arrival. There is a large indoor pool, sauna, steam room and solarium, as well as a fully equipped gym.

A full English breakfast is on available each morning. Manor Restaurant serves contemporary English cuisine with a modern twist of Mediterranean, as well as cocktails and wines from around the world.

The centre of Ipswich is only 3.2 km away, with shops, bars, and direct train links to London. Guests are within a 30-minute drive of many of rural Suffolk’s prettiest villages.