The Gainsborough Bath Spa review: As refined and elegant as the town itself

A twin room at The Gainsborough Bath Spa (Image: Provided)

With its Roman-built baths constructed around natural hot springs in the 1st century AD, the English town of Bath Spa (population: a dainty 94,092) can feel less like a city and more like a single, monumental sculpture; its elegant façades flowing seamlessly from one Georgian curve to the next.

Local businesses are all suitably elevated (the understated charm of The Little Theatre Cinema, for example, makes this our favourite Picturehouse in the land!), and nowhere is this more apparent than five star spa hotel The Gainsborough Bath Spa, a glossy behemoth enviably located slap bang in the middle of town, housed within a grand, Grade II Listed building that was once a hospital dating back to the 1800s.

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