While exploring the beautiful untouched villages of the Cotswold's do yourself a favor and stop for a stay in Broadway and visit Russell's. It's aptly named "a restaurant with rooms" as there are just a handful of cozy bedrooms above the dining room- and you enter to check in through the back garden area of the restaurant. It's not a hotel, you have to interact with the restaurant staff to get anything during the day- but the staff was beyond amazing- really friendly, helpful and kind.
Rooms are comfortable and clean, with a large tub in the bathroom. Once the restaurant downstairs closes you can help yourself to drinks and snacks at the "honor bar" area which I thought was really well thought out for the guests to have access to. It's a quiet little town so you have a door code to get in and out after hours but everything about our stay was effortless and enjoyable. I could hear some people in the adjoining rooms at some points- but it was not enough to bother me, and it seems to be the norm in the older buildings in England that you can hear everything. The town is really quiet in the winter so there was no sounds from the road outside and a lovely view of the surrounding buildings from the front of the establishment. The breakfast is really bountiful- we were totally full after two courses of food, with coffees and toast to order.
Lunch was really good- a nice change to the traditional pub food you'll find in the area- fresh, gourmet and interesting. I wish we could have had dinner, but on a Sunday they did not serve anything past 2pm.
I would highly recommend this place. A happy little escape in the countryside!
- Russells Hotel Broadway
