This Salisbury hotel has a friendly new owner but it's the old charm of the place that makes it stand out. That and the good-value menu
If you'd visited Wilton House, seat of the earls of Pembroke, in the late 1700s, you might well have stayed at the Pembroke Arms: it was built as overflow guest accommodation. Not where they put honoured guests, then but maybe 18th-century D-listers had more fun in this three-storey lodge than in the severe Palladian pile over the road, three miles from Salisbury.
There's certainly no starchiness to our friendly welcome from Ido Davids, who has just taken over the eight-bedroom hotel with wife Alison. Ido vegan, grew up on a kibbutz apologises for his attire. "I've been logging," he says there is an impressive stack of firewood outside and leaves us to find our room, the Queen's Bedchamber.
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