Awards & Accolades
As a small luxury resort, we work hard to maintain the highest standards. We truly appreciate and respect when publications acknowledge our accomplishments. Below is a list of some of the awards Blantyre has won.
We are equally pleased when guests take the time to tell us about their stay. Your comments and suggestions help us to enhance the services we provide and inspire us to improve. Please feel free to share your thoughts in person or in e-mail:
Accolades
"More home than hotel," this Berkshires Tudor manor has individually decorated rooms ... "Lush and well-manicured grounds" are perfect for croquet or a picnic. "Staff are super welcoming." In the Dining Room, meals-which include lamb, pheasant, and game-are "intimate and most memorable."
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"Tucked into the Berkshire Hills, this aristocratic and impeccably maintained Tudor-style mansion estate sits amid 100 park-like acres punctuated by a heated pool, tennis courts and tournament-rated croquet lawns."
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"Blantyre may be America's best inn. And now it's open for winter, too." "Summer's tennis courts have been turned into winter's skating pond, and groomed ski and snowshoe trails spiderweb over the grounds. There is a snow concierge to assist guest with winter activities, and steaming hot chocolate welcomes returning skiers and skaters."
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"…Blantyre's new spa is drawing a whole new crowd. Known as the potting shed, and located adjacent to Blantyre's heated outdoor pool, the new venue offers beauty and body treatments par excellence."
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"At this Tudor estate with leaded glass windows and gardens, guests get to know staff by first names, especially the warm and professional general manager... We felt as if we were in the home of an extremely wealthy, generous friend."
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"It doesn't get any posher than this sublime Relais & Chateaux hotel where the beautiful location, food and service all make you feel like you're a guest in the Gilded Age..."
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Travel Awards since 2008
| 2008 | Condé Nast Traveler Top 100 Readers Choice Awards |
| 2008 | Forbes Traveler Top 400 in World |
| 2008 | Mobil Five-Star Award Recipient since 2003 - from 1991 to 2002, awarded Four Stars |
| 2008 | Condé Nast Traveler Gold List Overall rating of 91.8 |
| 2008 | Travel & Leisure – June issue – World’s Best Service Awards – #6 in the Continental US |
| 2008 | Travel & Leisure – January issue "The World’s Best Hotels" 500 – 90.43 rating |
| 2008 | Condé Nast Johansens Luxury Hotel Guide Nominated for "Award of Excellence" Most Excellent Romantic Hideaway Most Excellent Country House Hotel |
| 2007 | Forbes.com "10 Most Romantic Hotels in the World" |
| 2007 | Travel & Leisure – August issue "World’s Best Awards” One of “Top 100 Continental U.S. and Canada" |
| 2007 | Luxury Link World’s Best Hotels |
Food & Wine Awards
| 2009 | Wine Spectator Grand Award |
| 2008 | AAA 4 Diamond Award Included in their listing since 1994 |
| 2007/ 2008 | Zagat Restaurant Survey Food 26 – Décor 28 – Service 27 |
| 2006 | Zagat Survey "America’s Top 100 Hotel Restaurants" |
Heavenly Hot Chocolate
A cup of hot chocolate offers warm comfort
in the cold of winter. Chef Christopher Brooks shows Jeff Glor how to give
hot chocolate a gourmet makeover.
"Our anniversary celebration was spectacular. Our stay was worth the 40 year wait."
"Beautifully prepared"New American cuisine was voted No. 1 for Food in the Berkshires and a staff that "treats you like royalty ..."
Voted #41 in the
"Top 100 - The Best in the World"
"Lush and well-manicured grounds" are perfect for croquet or a picnic.
In the Dining Room, meals – which include lamb, pheasant, and game – are "intimate and most memorable."
"Bliss in the Berkshires."
