WHERE TO STAY
Artist Residence The latest sign of the St Pauls district gentrification is due to open in a once run-down Georgian square just off the M32, near the city centre and Stokes Croft. The former boot factory will be a 23-bedroom hotel and ‘neighbourhood hangout’, colourfully and quirkily decorated, with coffee shop, bar, kitchen, event space and garden. Doubles from £95.
28 Portland Square, St Pauls, BS2 8SA, 020 3019 8623, artistresidence.co.uk Avon Gorge Hotel An elegant Edwardian building revamped by
Hotels du Vin in 2018, located on the edge of the gorge, with an all-weather terrace and restaurant with superb view of Clifton Suspension Bridge. Doubles from £117. Sion Hill, BS8 4LD,
0330 016 0390, hotelduvin.com
Beech House This Victorian villa complex, well situated near the restaurants and shops of Whiteladies Road, has been converted into a collection of studios and small house units equipped with kitchen facilities set around a pleasant garden area. Smart sophisticated decor mixes new wood floors, soft neutral colours and well-selected modern and antique furniture. Studio for two, from £103.
6 St Pauls Rd, BS8 1LT, 0117 325 8104, ucservicedapartments.com/beech-house Bristol Harbour Hotel & Spa A newly converted 42-room property blinging up a magnificent former bank built in the 1850s and modelled on St
Mark’s Library, Venice. A good location at the top of the old central business thoroughfare of Corn Street, now mainly devoted to nightlife, opposite the historic St Nicholas Market and the ornate iron posts known as ‘The Nails’ (probably the origin of the expression ‘cash on the nail’). Doubles from £122. 55 Corn St, BS1 1HT,
0117 203 4445, harbourhotels.co.uk Number 38 Clifton A 12-bedroom boutique hotel in a large Victorian house overlooking the 160ha tree-dotted grassland of The Downs. Individually designed rooms, with pubs, restaurants, shops and Saturday’s upmarket Whiteladies Road market all five minutes’ walk away. Doubles from £140. 38 Upper Belgrave Rd, BS8 2XN, 0117 946 6905, number38clifton.com