Alastair Sawday's

Sawday’s are delighted to announce the winners in their first ever Reader Awards. The categories were Best Breakfast, Finest Garden, Friendliest B&B, Greenest B&B, Favourite B&B and Favourite Hotel or Inn.
The winners were given their awards at a gathering of 150 hoteliers and B&B and holiday home owners which was held in Bristol.
In a refreshingly unconventional ceremony, the sustainable and hand-crafted awards were handed out by Alastair and announced in anarchic style by Dizraeli, winner of the 2007 Radio 4 slam poetry prize. See some photos of the event.

How the winners were chosen
The categories for the Awards were sent out via the Sawday monthly newsletter. The readers were invited to send in their favourites in a completely random fashion from which a shortlist was drawn up and winners selected.

The Winners

Best Breakfast – Ivydene House, Gloucestershire
Finest Garden – Horsleygate Hall, Derbyshire
Friendliest B&B or Hotel – Crown House, Yorkshire
Greenest B&B kindly sponsored by Triodos Bank Trericket Mill, Powys
Favourite B&B kindly sponsored by Kohler Mira Showers Middle Cottage, Middlesex
Favourite Hotel or Inn kindly sponsored by EaudeVie Feversham Arms & Verbena Spa, Yorkshire

And not forgetting the Runners-up! A fine achievement as our readers had around 1,000 places to choose from:

Best Breakfast
The Old Butcher’s Shop, Suffolk
Yew Tree House, Hampshire

Finest Garden
Millgate House, Yorkshire
Luggers Hall, Worcestershire

Friendliest B&B or Hotel
Thistleyhaugh, Northumberland
Luggers Hall, Worcestershire

Greenest B&B
Gotten Manor, Isle of Wight
Wemyss House, Ross-shire, Scotland
Walford Court, Shropshire

Favourite B&B
Crown House, Scarborough,Yorkshire
Nonsuch House, Dartmouth, Devon

Favourite Hotel or Inn
Cley Windmill, Norfolk
The Troubadour, London