ANOTHER OPTION - HOLIDAY INN MILTON KEYNES - CENTRAL This popular city centre property is home to the fabulous Marco’s New York Italian restaurant by celebrity chef and restaurateur Marco Pierre White. It also boasts the Spirit Health Club where guests can dive into the large indoor swimming pool and try out the fitness centre and gym. There’s also a treatment room offering a range of indulgent beauty treatments. The hotel is located just a short walk away from Milton Keynes train station with direct connections to central London, and it’s only a 30-minute drive from London Luton Airport. Other local attractions include Bletchley Park, the nearby intu Milton Keynes Shopping Centre and the indoor Snozone – Europe’s largest indoor real snow resort where visitors can learn and practice skiing and snowboarding. Holiday Inn Milton Keynes offers a stylish events space for the ceremony, wedding breakfast and evening reception that can be styled to suit a variety of themes. Both the Holiday Inn Milton Keynes – Central and the Holiday Inn Oxford properties feature the open lobby concept, unique to the Holiday Inn brand. It’s designed to provide guests with one multi-faceted public space to eat, meet, relax, socialise and work as they choose which will revolutionise the way guests live and interact at the hotel. Other exciting news at the property is that children aged 17 and under stay for free when sharing their parents’ room and up to two children aged 12 and under can eat free when an adult dish from the main menu is ordered in any Holiday Inn on-site restaurant. www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/gb/en/milton-keynes/mlkbk/ hoteldetail CROWNE PLAZA MARLOW This fully refurbished hotel that's located in the heart of the Thames Valley close to High Wycombe and Maidenhead is nestled in five acres of landscaped grounds, home to a private lake. It also boasts the AA Rosette Awarded Glaze Restaurant, an 18-metre heated indoor pool and jacuzzi; a Life Fitness gym plus a sauna, steam room and the Quad Wellness & Spa club. Ceremonies take place in the stylish Winterlake Suite, capable of hosting up to 400 guests. For the wedding breakfast, up to 300 loved ones can be seated here and for the evening reception, up to 450 people can party in this stunning space. The Conservatory is another beautiful option, revealing far-flung views across the lake through its floor-to-ceiling windows, and direct access out on to the manicured lawns. Here, up to 200 guests can gather for the ceremony; up to 180 people can be seated for the wedding breakfast and up to 300 loved ones can mingle for the evening reception. The venue offers the Marlow and Lakeside wedding packages which include complimentary menu tasting for the couple. The Fountain Package includes this plus a complimentary bridal suite for the newlyweds on the night of the wedding plus a first-anniversary stay including dinner, bed and breakfast and a Spa Day for two including two 25-minute treatments (for the wedding couple) in Quad Wellness & Spa. Ceremony licence? Yes Contact: 01628 496 800, www.cpmarlow.co.uk/weddings •We love... the river running through the grounds which makes a stunning backdrop for photographs. 28 North Buckinghamshire www.gettyimages.co.uk
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