The Recession’s Silver Lining

Michael Cooper, owner of Cnapan, a Welsh restaurant-with-rooms, which has been in the Guide for more than 20 years, tells me he has been running at 90% capacity since March. Michael Pritt, the third generation of his family to run the Wentworth Hotel in Aldeburgh, reports being “frantically busy”. Even hotels on islands, such as Foveran on the Orkneys, run by the Doull family, say they have been almost fully booked throughout the summer. Another remote hotel, Star Castle in the Scilly Isles, owned by Robert and James Francis, has been swamped with inquiries from the GHG’s website (www.goodhotelguide.com), helped by the fact that it won our C