Maison Talbooth

Country house with riverside restaurant in pretty Dedham Vale

A swish £1.5 million refurbishment has put the Wow factor right back into Maison Talbooth. It's a terrific place to stay on the Suffolk borders, and you'll feel totally at home à la Maison.

Know It All

Hit the spot
Five minutes from pretty Dedham village, on the Suffok borders.

Be savvy
Le Talbooth restaurant is five minutes away.

Be smitten
Lavish country living 90 minutes from London.

Bedtime...

Rooms and suites
12 suites including three with a hot tub and terrace.

Special features
All suites have DVD players, kingsize beds, goose feather duvets and egyptian cottom sheets. And of course three have those outdoor hot tubs...

Also…
You can book body treatments, play tennis or have a dip (in summer) in the outdoor heated pool.

Pillow Talk
Splash out on a Principal suite complete with outdoor hot tub, or pick the deluxe Betjeman. For a fabulous bathroom, take the Eliot room.

Eat & Drink

Dining in
Beamed Le Talbooth restaurant (five minutes away) serves modern English cuisine amid crisp white linen, smart leather chairs and Zoffany fabrics. Expect award-winning food and spot-on service: tuck into roast lobster tail and monkfish, breast of quail en croute and Valrhona chocolate Black Forest gateau. Try the hand-dived scallops, the roast lobster tail cooked in vermouth or maybe a Chateaubriand for two.

You can dine on the terrace beneath Le Talbooth's signature curved sail in the summer months – and if you over indulge, there's a courtesy car to take you back. Daytime fare at the Maison includes Club sandwiches, wraps and freshly baked scones.

Breakfast
Breakfast is served in the Garden Room until 10:30am. Dine out on the terrace if it's sunny.

Room service
Available morning and evening.

See & Do

See & Do
Trawl for antiques in pretty Dedham, where you can stroll along the river – just pick up a walking map. Admire the equestrian prints and paintings of Sir Alfred Munnings in the museum of his name just outside the village.

This is Constable country, so don’t miss a trip to the painter's birthplace at Flatford Mill in the village of East Bergholt, where there's also a lock and barge dock. Earn your lunch by rowing along the River Stour with a picnic and a bottle of chilled white wine – there's a boating station in Dedham. If you prefer salt water, staff can arrange for you to hire a sailboat from The Pier at Harwich and head out to sea.

Spa
There's every excuse for some pampering in Maison Talbooth's brand new treatment rooms. Opt for a side-by-side chillout and detox massage, some oxyjet skin-smoothing therapy, a sea mud wrap or a salt scrub and full body mapping. You'll also have full use of the hotel's heated outdoor pool and jacuzzi. There's also a tennis court and a pool house with sofas, a surround-sound TV and an honesty bar.

Diary Dates
July
Join in the annual Harwich Festival – seven days of music, theatre, storytelling and visual arts.

A complimentary bottle of champagne.

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