Muthu Belstead Brook Hotel

Featuring a leisure club and indoor swimming pool, this hotel is 6 minutes’ drive from the A14 in suburban Ipswich. The Belstead Brook Muthu Hotel is built around a 16th Century hunting lodge, with extensive lawned gardens and its own restaurant and bar. Each bedroom at the Belstead Brook comes traditionally decorated with an private bathroom. Rooms include a flat-screen TV, tea and coffee making facilities, iron and ironing board, and a trouser press. The hotel offers spa and beauty treatments in the leisure club, which must be booked prior to arrival. There is a large indoor pool, sauna, steam room and solarium, as well as a fully equipped gym. A full English breakfast is on available each morning. Manor Restaurant serves contemporary English cuisine with a modern twist of Mediterranean, as well as cocktails and wines from around the world. The center of Ipswich is only 2 miles away, with shops, bars, and direct train links to London. Guests are within a 30-minute drive of many of rural Suffolk’s prettiest villages.