{"id":11025,"date":"2022-02-20T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T11:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=11025"},"modified":"2022-02-20T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T11:14:45","slug":"my-review-of-gainsborough-bath-hotel-and-spa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/02\/20\/my-review-of-gainsborough-bath-hotel-and-spa\/","title":{"rendered":"My review of Gainsborough Bath Hotel and Spa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I’ve mentioned earlier, I’ve booked to stay at Gainsborough Bath<\/a> for one night thanks to the $200 credit offered by Amex Platinum. It claims to be the only property in the UK with naturally heated thermal water!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bath is a small town, and the hotel is only five minutes’ walk from the railway station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hotel is affiliated with Small Luxury Hotels, so you can redeem your Hyatt points here too. However it doesn’t come cheap – the hotel is Category 6 so usually requires 25,000 points per night, which is hardly a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YTL is the property owner from Malaysia. They also own the Ritz Carlton at Kuala Lumpur<\/a>, Koh Samui<\/a> and Niseko<\/a>, as well as the Monkey Island Estate<\/a> and Glasshouse Edinburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lobby is small but neat, which kind of reminds me of the Marriott Park Lane hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I arrived at 1.30pm and the room’s not ready yet. I came back again after lunch, and the receptionist offered to go and check the room for me, but never returned. The room’s finally ready at around 3.15pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hotel staff are very familiar with FHR benefits. I’m upgraded one level to Executive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It feels like a proper five-star hotel and I especially like the bedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An unadvertised perk is the room view – you can see the pool of a thermal spa next door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But I also observed some teething issues with the room:<\/p>\n\n\n\n