A Helping Hand for Hotels: Buy Original Gifts This Christmas

While hotels have been haemorrhaging cash through lockdowns and tiers, we can lend them a helping hand by showing our love and buying their incredible wares as gifts this Christmas (and beyond). Usually, hotel collections are local, beautifully curated and of impeccable quality. Here are some of the best gifts from hotels.

Buy Original Gifts from Hotels

The Fife Arms

Wallow, luxuriate and smell divine in Albamhor’s botanical bodycare range, which includes a Hand & Body Lotion, Shampoo, Conditioner, Body and Hand Wash – made with oil-infused Scottish Highland herbs and plants, all made in Britain. From £28, thefifearms.com

 

The Pig

Get the party started… at home. But with some slam dunking cocktails courtesy of those clever mixologists at The Pig. Your set of four includes Verbena Cosmo, Lemon Drop Chilli Margarita, Espresso Martini and an Oak Aged Old Fashioned. Bottoms up. £65, thepighotel.com

Adare Manor

Calling all oyster lovers. One of Ireland’s finest hotels has the most divine silver oyster shell sea salt holder that will suitably impress. Failing that there are lemon squeezers, embroidered towels and divine-smelling candles. €750, adaremanor.com  

The Goring

Knock the socks off your family who perhaps you won’t get to see this Christmas with one of the most splendid hampers out there. The Big Dave Hamper’ includes personalised bathrobes, Asprey toiletries, a magnum of Mersault, a Fortnum & Mason tea caddy, plus plenty more besides. £1,100, thegoring.com

Cliveden House

Chatelaine of Cliveden House, Natalie Livingstone, developed her own range of body and bath products based on the intriguing women who had lived there before her. These Nancy Himalayan Bath Salts take their name from Nancy Astor, who received the house as a wedding gift in 1906. £57, clivedenhouse.co.uk

Firmdale Hotels

Light up someone’s life with a Kit Kemp Doggy Lamp beneath a linen lampshade. £1,500, firmdalehotels.com

Claridge’s

Who wouldn’t want to walk around in a pair of Claridge’s slippers, especially when made by Gaziano & Girling, with hand embroidered details. £295, claridges.co.uk

The Newt

Belonging as The Newt does to the people behind South Africa’s hallowed Babylonstoren, why not surprise someone with a premium selection of wines. The hamper includes a bottle of elegant, dry Mourvèdre Rosé, Flagship Chardonnay made from the finest estate grapes, and 2020’s 96-point Decanter award-winning Shiraz. £65, thenewtinsomerset.com

Ashford Castle

Snuggle up in Ashford Castle’s tweed blanket made at the Foxford Woollen Mills, one of the last working mills in Ireland. From €120, ashfordcastle.com