Sleepover: A bed in Bristol

Naseby House

Where is it?

In Clifton, the posh part of Bristol.

What's it like?

A Grade II-listed Victorian house round the corner from Bristol Zoo and a few minutes' walk from Clifton Downs. It became an hotel about 50 years ago.

What's its USP?

In an area where most of the hotels offer small rooms for high rates, Naseby House makes you feel as if you have been invited to a compact country house for a very reasonable price. Double rooms from £63 to £75.

Service?

Unobtrusively efficient. Owners Peter and Joy Riley are friendly without being effusive, and keep a tight rein on their equally friendly dogs, Nigel and Ben.

Rooms?

Each room is individually designed but retains similar motifs: wonderfully high ceilings are painted the same deep blue or terracotta as the walls, with woodwork, iron beds and other furniture in a pleasingly contrasting white. Cream roman blinds cover the enormous sash windows. The room on the lower-ground floor has the added bonus of French doors leading out into the landscaped garden.

Food?

The hotel itself serves only a very good English breakfast, but you are in a city which has been exploding in superb restaurants in recent years. The city centre itself is about a mile away, as are the various waterside developments – areas packed with restaurants and bars.

Clientele?

Mainly middle-class English tourists and their well-behaved children.

Things to do?

The zoo gardens, which are a delight. Or drop into one of the upmarket takeaways on Blackboy Hill and have a picnic on the Downs or wander over to the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Then there are the city's museums and art galleries, the SS Great Britain and the Watershed and Arnolfini arts centres.

Address?

Naseby House Hotel, 105 Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3EF (0117 973 7859; www.nasebyhousehotel.co.uk).