Laid back but classy, this super family-friendly establishment offers plenty of school holiday-friendly pursuits and rooms or apartments sleeping up to eight people. There’s tennis, swimming, croquet, badminton, bikes, a cinema room, creche and a kids club on-site, as well as free access to the nearby National Trust galleries. Adults can enjoy some alone or couple time with bespoke treatments in the spa, and candlelit meals at Federick’s. The hotel itself is an imposing 18th-century manor house enveloped by an enormous area of parkland, four miles from Bury St Edmunds.