A New Forest boutique B&B fit for Wiggo!

PRLog (Press Release) - Aug. 6, 2012 - Cottage Lodge, the 14-room, five-star Boutique B&B in the village of Brockenhurst in the New Forest, is the accommodation equivalent of record- breaking, 7 times Olympic-medal-winning Bradley Wiggins, having been awarded a huge list of awards in recent years.

Here is the Olympic-size list of awards that have been bestowed upon Cottage Lodge and its owner, ‘eco-chic’ Christina Simons:

•   Brilliance in Business – Most Sustainable Business 2012 Winner
•   Caterer & Hotelkeeper – Sustainability Award 2012 – runner up
•   Enjoy England Gold Winner Award for Excellence 2008
•   Winner of South East Tourism’s Excellence Awards 2008
•   New Forest Brilliance in Business Awards 2008 (finalist)
•   Awarded 5-star rating from the AA
•   Best B&B in the New Forest National Park 2007 (Guardian Newspaper)
•   Gold Green Tourism Business Scheme 2007
•   Winner Sustainable Business of the Year 2007 (Tourism South East)
•   Highly Commended Green Hotel of the Year 2007 (Caterer & Hotelkeeper)
•   Brilliance in Business Award 2007 (finalist)

The Awards recognise the astonishing degree to which Christina has gone to, in reducing the carbon footprint of her business, namely:

•   Zonal heating (only rooms that guests are staying in are heated)
•   Black poplar tables in the dining room
•   Crockery from Denby – made from clay dug out of their own back garden
•   Bowls for fruit made from recycled glass
•   Table mats made from recycled coke cans
•   Chairs are either recycled wood or bamboo
•   Eco friendly paint
•   Breakfast made with New forest Marque or from as close as possible to the New Forest
•   Coffee and tea processed using the sun and electricity from solar panels
•   Hampshire peppermint tea
•   Bar supplied from the local area
•   Guests encouraged to leave the car behind with free collection from the station
•   Bamboo blankets on the beds (lower carbon footprint than wool or synthetic)
•   Solar panels, photovoltaic cells, wood burning stove,

In addition there are two eco ‘showcase rooms’ one of which even has a bicycle to power the television, and another in which the bed and all the bedroom furniture, was made by hand from a fallen New Forest Ash tree.

Rooms at Cottage Lodge Hotel cost from £80 per night (2 sharing a room, including the famous New Forest Marque breakfast).  Call 01590 622 296 (www.cottagelodge.co.uk).

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