Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire

Forty-two miles southwest of London, the 500-acre estate known as Dogmersfield Park served as a private home, a monastery, a billet for World War II pilots, and a girls' boarding school. In 2005, after more than 900 years, it settled into its next calling as the Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire. Today it combines the pleasures of the English countryside with state-of-the-art technology and the luxuries of a five-star hotel.

Guests live in 133 guest rooms and meet in six conference rooms for up to 260 delegates. They enjoy a restaurant, cafe, bistro, and lounge; indoor and outdoor pools; a spa, fitness center, fishing lodge, canal boat, and riding stables; croquet and tennis; and the chance for skeet and clay pigeon shooting as well as falconry, archery, cannon firing, and ferret racing.