Lodges in Hampshire with private hot tubs
Hampshire is a county of two national parks. The New Forest fills the south-west with its wild ponies and heath, while the South Downs roll east through the Meon Valley. The Solent coast adds sailing on the River Hamble. The hot tub lodges in Hampshire sit across all three, from a shepherd's hut to houses with games rooms.
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Luxury hot tub breaks in Hampshire
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Bailey Cottage
Bursledon
The Happy Hut
Sopley
Groomes Country House
Farnham
Coppice Hill House
Bishop's Waltham
Northern Byre
Sopley
Brook Farm
Ringwood
Coombe Place House
Meonstoke
Typhoon Lodge
Fair Oak
Hamble House
Warsash
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The lie of the land
Between two national parks and the sea
Few counties change character as fast as Hampshire. Start on the Solent, where the Hamble, one of England's busiest sailing rivers, runs thick with masts. Twenty minutes west, the New Forest takes over, a rare survival of open heath and ancient woodland where ponies and cattle wander the lanes. North-east of the coast, the chalk rises into the South Downs, cut by the Meon Valley with its flint-and-brick villages and beech hangers.
Winchester sits in the middle, half cathedral city, half gateway to the Downs. The setting matters more than the lodge, and there are hot tub stays in all three.
Wherever you base yourself, the hot tub is yours alone, never a shared holiday-park spa. That holds even for the big house near the Hamble, where it sits beside an indoor pool.
Room for two, room for sixteen
For two, the choice is forest or chalk. On the New Forest edge near Christchurch, a shepherd's hut and its hot tub hide down a lane that ends at the village church. Over on the chalk, a cabin-style lodge fits a sauna into the bathroom. Its resort setting puts restaurants on site and Marwell Zoo five minutes away.
Families and two-family groups are happiest in the four-bedroom self-catering cottages. All are dog-friendly, all have woodburners, and most of the gardens are enclosed.
A three-generation Christmas or a reunion that needs every bedroom points you towards the houses sleeping fifteen or sixteen. At that size, a games room is usually part of the appeal, and the house near the Hamble adds a steam room to go with its indoor pool. The luxury here is mostly elbow room and quiet, not marble and chandeliers.
What's near each base, forest to coast
Where you stay shapes the days out too, because the big attractions cluster around the same three bases.
Around the New Forest
The Forest itself is the draw: open heath to walk almost anywhere, a waymarked cycle network through the plantations, and deer in the deeper woods. When the forecast turns, Beaulieu's National Motor Museum and Palace House keep the day under cover. Buckler's Hard, the shipbuilding village a couple of miles down the Beaulieu River, is one for a brighter morning. The coast is close too, from Lymington's cobbled quay and Saturday market to the shingle at Lepe, which looks across to the Isle of Wight. For families, Paultons Park, home of Peppa Pig World, is just off the Forest's northern edge.
Winchester and the Meon Valley
Winchester is half an hour up the road. Jane Austen's grave is in the cathedral's north aisle, and the medieval Round Table hangs in the Great Hall at the top of the High Street. Marwell Zoo is closer still, good for a full family day among giraffes, rhinos and snow leopards. On an unhurried afternoon, the Watercress Line steams between Alresford and Alton, with Jane Austen's house at Chawton a mile from the far end. Walkers get the open downland at Old Winchester Hill, an Iron Age fort above the Meon Valley, with orchids and butterflies through the summer.
The Solent and Portsmouth
An easy riverside walk follows the Hamble past the moorings, and the shingle beaches at Lee-on-the-Solent and Hill Head are minutes away. The Mary Rose and HMS Victory swallow most of a visit to Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, with the Spinnaker Tower and Gunwharf Quays alongside.
When to come for a soak
Spring brings new foals to the New Forest and bluebells to the beech woods, with the lanes still quiet before the holidays fill them. Summer belongs to the coast, all long light evenings and beach days. Inland, Paultons Park keeps younger families busy through August.
Autumn turns the Forest copper and brings the deer rut, while pannage pigs clear the acorns that poison the ponies. Winter means frosty heath mornings, Winchester's Christmas market around the cathedral, and dusk by half past four, which is the hot tub's hour.
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