Marwell Hotel – a room with a zoo

Here is our Renault Mégane Scénic in front of the Marwell Hotel, which is right next door to the Marwell Zoo. Unfortunately, the zoo animals are not visible from the hotel, although their PR suggests they are. The wild animals we saw around the hotel were mostly pigeons and rabbits, except for one “wild” cat out hunting (for birds or rabbits, I suppose).

The hotel has a African theme, like a high-class simple lodge –think Chateau Montebello but in finished wood , not logs. And lots of glass. The five or six buildings are joined by glassed walkways. We were in the Giraffe Pavillon; there were also Zebra and other animals. The restaurant is called Zavannah, the spa Zuri, and the bar Zanzibar. It is very quiet and the stars can be very clear. The woods are all around and there are wild blackberries.

The main business is weddings on the weekends and trainings, meetings, etc. during the week. We had most of the Hampshire Constabularly hanging around for a couple of days.