Review: That Hotel and Spa Winchester, UK

So, why the name – that hotel and spa Winchester? Voco makes an invitation and relaxed from Latin to come together. And no, it is not a typo. Voco does not want a capital letter. This is equally minded as a hotel. Free from a unique contemporary name, grammar protocol and plenty of pretense.

The hotel and Spa Winchester have more space, location and more space for it. Set between Green Hills of South Down National Park, this is within a few minutes of the 131-Bedroom Hotel historic Winchester. Once Vesax and then the capital of England; Help in the birth of a nation.

In October 2023, Voco re -opened after an eight -month and £ 2m renewal. The Holiday Inn had a personality makeover and was reborn as a hotel and spa, which was a stylish destination for rest and my-time. Work also, if you really need.

Welcome

Two employees are waiting for the reception to check us quickly. They are a surname to find out our booking and confirm our restaurant booking. Then we are on our way and lift.

Entering our room, a welcome message on 50 -inch television encourages us, as we need it, to relax.

The room

Keeping in mind the Voco style, our premium room has a “Come and feel home and feel” vibe, with gray/blue paintwork calm. Those light and soothing colors, with white colored sea-sprays, are raised in the carpet. All cold, humid mid summer by delicious air-conditioning.

It is a huge, comfortable room with strategically placed roofing spotlights and a modernist standard lamp that aspires for the angle-husband position, all reach a king-shaped bed. The thoughtful design offers a long desk to work with a large oval mirror so that it also does multi-work as a dressing table. There is a broad beverage tray, as well as a coffee-maker with a capsule choice.

There is a broad beverage tray, as well as a coffee-maker with a capsule choice.

Guskhana

A thoughtful design touch is that the control is done mid-bath so that you set the right temperature before setting the leg under the shower. This is also a deep bath for more enjoyment. White towels and dressing gowns are high end, ancient and alcoholic. Antipodes figure and Fizoa toiletries caress pure, natural and vegetarian skincare.

Facilities

The kitchen 21 is now named after the famous 21 -inch pizza, which is an open scheme of the kitchen's signature dish.

Wooden textured walls, terracotta plants, green banquets and tan chairs combine a light restaurant to make a confident feel natural where the tables are well stretched.

Also the main menu of steak, burger, chicken and salad, a seasonal menu – think of sebas, vegetarian Thai curry, garlic and lemon pork chops – brings variations for a large number of regular dinners who are living on business.

Between the onset, a watercress soup gives a signal to the UK Watercress Capital, it is Alrsford, which is only 10 minutes of drive away. A black pudding scotch egg, yolk warm and flowing, shows impressive creativity, on a bed of picalilli with a stop. As a collado messes for puds, tropically transforms traditional strawberries with pineapple and coconut combines ice cream. A dish that is a metaphor for the attitude of that.

It is no surprise that breakfast is really cooked to whatever you want, grazing or ordering from buffet.

It is advisable to book more in the Ana spa and I am sorry, where it is advisable to book in advance. With a sense of goodness and calm, the spa saves a Himalayan salt sauna, sensory shower, crystal steam room and bubbly foot spa.

All this is all in the gym equipped to spread the treadmill, bike, ergo, free-weight, medicine balls and even yoga mats.

place

From M3 to minute, from London to Southampton south, it is within the distance of all attractions of the south coast, new forest and Winchester.

Once to give strength to 22 local mills, do a walking tour of Winchester to learn about the power of Itchen as a working river, and be given a “wafer dole”, a small cup ale and a morsel of bread to the charitable hospital of St. Cross.

Or follow in the stages of poet John insects whose walking from Cathedral to the river is said to have inspired him to “autumn”.

Steam-tingling memories of railway children are re-awakened at Alresford station on the Watercress line. A railway that was the first phase of a journey until its closure in 1973, which took the Watercrace to the nation. Now its cafe, platform and signalman's vegetable patches indifferently remember another era.

Alrsford's beautiful city with cafes and pub tables is spreading on pavement, hanging baskets and piles of independent shops, perhaps one of the most attractive market cities around Winchester.

Many incidents have been going on till the 250th anniversary of Jane Austain's birth on 16 December 2025. Literary pilgrims are headed by Gravstone at the Vinchester Cathedral and Jane Austain House Museum in Choston.

Other good touch

Throughout, three birds bring significant artwork in decoration. A chat and friendly reception is shown by Finch. Quiet, cool owls represent the time and under the flaud/room, reflect the social tendency of guests

LED lighting, timer for air-c and heating, and beds made of 100% recycled materials, all help Voko for stability on their environmentally friendly journey.

Fresh daily, mini-bar contains compartments of Malaback, Sovenan Blanc, Ligar and Coca-Cola.

Cost

For two people sharing the room from £ 250.00 per premium room, including breakfast.

the best bit

Bar and lounge regions are modern, sophisticated, buzzy and invited; Whether it is for morning latte or an evening mojito, whether it is for socialization around a comfortable couch, reading in one of the secluded armchairs or working on a high-level desk.

The decoration is complicated, with local touch, and contemporary with comfortable.

final call

Voco, still there is no capital letter, is “firmly different” as its Rado promises. Upscale but not full. Comfortable but classy. Quality without pretense. A comfortable sanctuary but also sociable.

Voco is not only a unique concept for Winchester, but also spreading from the one who is spreading from Dubai from Ho Ho Chi Minh City.

Disclosure: Our stay was sponsored by the hotel and spa vinchester,