Welcome to Blantyre in the beautiful Berkshires, a private sanctuary where you can escape from everyday cares. Welcome to a world of serenity with exquisite accommodations...a place where you can dedicate yourself to leisure pursuits and enjoy the finest cuisine, distinctive wines and impeccable service.

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."
- Condé Nast Traveler

"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."
- Hideaway Report ( Read full report PDF )

"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."
- Yankee Magazine ( Read full report PDF )

"…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."
- Gotham Magazine, (Read full report PDF )

"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."
- Condé Nast Traveler

"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..."
- Zagat Survey ( Read full report PDF )

Awards 

Since 2003
Forbes (Formerly Mobil) Five-Star Recipient
2009, 2010 & 2011

Condé Nast Johansens 
"Most Excellent Country House Hotel"

2010 Andrew Harper Hideaway 2010
"Top 20 US Hideaways"
2009 Conde Nast Traveler
"#1 Small Hotels in the USA"
"#66 of all Hotels in the World"
2008 Travel & Leisure
"World Best Hotel Values"
2008  Forbes.com
"10 Most Romantic Hotels in the World"
2009 Zagat Restaurant Survey
Food 27 - Décor 29 - Service 28
Since 2009 Wine Spectator
Grand Award
 

 

Wine Spectator 2010 Mobil Travel Guide
Voted #41 in the
"Top 100 - The Best in the World"

Condé Nast Traveler Readers'
Choice Award
Mobil Travel Guide
"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."
Condé Nast Traveler,
Top 20 U.S. Small Hotels
Mobil Travel Guide
"Bliss in the Berkshires."
Sky, A Traveling Magazine
Mobil Travel Guide  Conde Nast