The 10 Most Sustainable Hotels in the UK

A Sustainability Ranking in partnership with ETIC Hotels

You’re planning a trip to the United Kingdom and you’re trying to be as ethical and sustainable as possible?
niood lists you the 10 most sustainable hotels in the United Kingdom:

1. The Green House, Dorset
4 Grove Rd, Bournemouth BH1 3AX

From $210 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes The Green House Dorset sustainable?
We are a Green Key certified accommodation and are committed to building sustainable tourism. Our operations are characterized by e. g. resource efficiency by saving water and energy consumption, reducing and recycling waste, using eco-labelled detergents and papers, and enabling customers to move around ecologically and go on nature tourism.

2. The Scarlet, Cornwall
The Scarlet Hotel, Tredragon Rd, Mawgan Porth, Newquay TR8 4DQ

From $250 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes The Scarlet Cornwall sustainable?
We are a Green Key certified accommodation and are committed to building sustainable tourism. Our operations are characterized by e. g. resource efficiency by saving water and energy consumption, reducing and recycling waste, using eco-labelled detergents and papers, and enabling customers to move around ecologically and go on nature tourism.

3. Saorsa 1875, Perthshire
Pitlochry, Scotland, United Kingdom

From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes Saorsa 1875 sustainable?
We are a Green Key certified accommodation and are committed to building sustainable tourism. Our operations are characterized by e. g. resource efficiency by saving water and energy consumption, reducing and recycling waste, using eco-labelled detergents and papers, and enabling customers to move around ecologically and go on nature tourism.

4. The Zetter Townhouse
Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom

From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes The Zetter Townhouse sustainable?
The Zetter is committed to integrating leading environmental practices in to our business and to continually exploring new ideas for improving our environmental performance.
We are focusing on practices aimed at:
– Energy Management – To reduce our consumption of energy year on year (and we’ve made a 20% saving in the last year!)
– Waste Management – To reduce the overall volume of waste as well as maximize recycled proportion.
– Supplier Management – To work with suppliers that share our sustainability commitment.
– Staff – To raise environmental awareness and make sustainability part of our staff culture.
– Guests – To raise awareness and actively promote and encourage green tourism initiatives.

4 bis. The Zetter Townhouse
Marylebone, London, United Kingdom

From $230 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

5. Number One Bruton, Somerset
1 High St, Bruton BA10 0AB

From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes Number One Bruton sustainable?
Sleeping on comfortable biodegradable mattresses, The Odd Mattress Co, which makes the mattresses, has a recycling scheme so you can get rid of your old one in a responsible way.

6. Heckfield Place, Hampshire
Heckfield Place, Heckfield, Hook RG27 0LD

From $600 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes Heckfield Place sustainable?
EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER – AND RADIATES FROM – THE HOUSE. FROM PLASTIC-FREE ROOMS WITH NATURAL MATERIALS SOURCED LOCALLY AND SENSITIVELY WHEREVER POSSIBLE (SUCH AS RUSH MATS AND HEADBOARDS FROM THE RIVER OUSE) TO EATING AND DINING WHERE THE PRODUCE WE GROW COMES TO OUR RESTAURANTS ENSURING HEALTHIER AND MORE DELICIOUS MENUS AS WELL AS GREATLY REDUCING FOOD MILES, DELIVERIES TO SITE, AND TRAFFIC ON THE LOCAL ROADS. TO CREATE A CLOSED CIRCLE WHERE WE WORK ON MANAGING OUR WASTE BY COMPOSTING AND BURNING IN OUR BIOMASS BOILER.

7. Thyme, Lechlade
Southrop Manor, Lechlade, GL7 3NX, United Kingdom

From $700 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes Thyme Lechlade sustainable?
A sustainable ethos is rooted in the kitchen garden & farm, ensuring a gentle footprint in the local and global landscape.

8. The Pig at Combe, Devon
Gittisham, Honiton EX14 3AD, United Kingdom

From $300 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes The Pig at Combe sustainable?

• We recycle glass, cardboard, paper and plastic.
• We have removed all plastic from our bars including stirrers, straws and picks.
• We are removing all plastic cotton buds and their plastic wrapping from rooms and replacing with paper.
• We no longer order 11,000 plastic toothbrushes a year to go into rooms, each room now receives a Strawberry seed packet. If every room took a packet of seeds home 29,581kg of Alpine Strawberries would be planted in a year.
• We recycle all coffee capsules from bedrooms
• We recycle all menus to make coasters and napkin rings
• Bedroom soaps are wrapped in paper
• Plastic bottles for soaps are recycled
• We rag old linen to use for cleaning
• All lightbulbs have been updated to LED bulbs, reducing our overall electricity consumption

9. The Victoria Inn, Norfolk
Park Rd, Holkham, Wells-next-the-Sea NR23 1RG, UK

From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes The Victoria Inn Norfolk sustainable?
‘Green’ Heating and Electricity:
The Victoria recently had a biomass boiler installed for both the main hotel and Ancient House. They are fuelled exclusively from estate wood chip: the woodland is certified under the UK Woodland Assurance Standard (UKWAS) and is able to manage its woodland to sustainably support its biomass projects.
All lighting in the Victoria and Ancient House is LED.

Sustainable Procurement:
Careful monitoring of suppliers.
Many products are fair trade.
Wherever possible our ingredients come from local suppliers within a 50 mile radius.
Key ingredients come from the Holkham Estate itself such as venison from the deer herd in Holkham park, beef and lamb from the farm and vegetables from the walled garden, thus encouraging low food miles.
Floral arrangements supplied by the volunteers at the walled garden on the estate.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle:
Bottles, paper, cardboard etc. are recycled appropriately.
Office paper and menu paper is 100% recycled.
Scrap paper is reused for notepads.
Print double-sided as much as possible.
Introduction of a battery recycling point.

Food Waste:
Our food waste is collected by ReFood who produce green energy through anaerobic digestion.

10. Bankside Hotel, London
Upper Ground, Southwark, London, SE1 9JU, United Kingdom

From $200 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10

What makes Bankside Hotel London sustainable?

• We are aiming to reduce waste on our own and by partnering with a leading recycling company. We will set targets to increase our recycling every year for cardboard, white paper, glass, plastic, aluminium cans, food waste, lamps, batteries, waste timber, white goods, and metals. Our aim is to maintain recycling levels of at least 98% of waste generated.
• The kitchen puts waste into separate food bins. Looking ahead, we plan to donate to food banks. We have no plastic utensils/bins. All bins are made of metal. There are separate recycling bins for every item (paper, food, metal, batteries). Waste vegetable oil is sent back to the suppliers to recycle.
• We always try to encourage suppliers to reduce their packaging via decanted and consolidated deliveries, so reducing the amount of vehicles on roads, therefore reducing CO2 emissions.