You might normally wonder with suspicion when a hotel converts a one-time auxiliary house into a lodge in its own right, as if they’re trying to amplify the property’s profile a bit. These days, ...

Highclere Castle, the English country estate where Downton Abbey is filmed, has opened an on-site hotel called London Lodge. (Despite the name, the castle and its hotel are in Newbury, West Berkshire, ...

CLIFDEN, Ireland -- A castle by any other name? Well, manor house just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. There are numerous hotels in Ireland that claim castle heritage. And I was determined to ...