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Don’t miss the new 2022 events, travel, sport, gourmet food, wine, jewellery, fashion, tailoring and more—all at preferential CountryClubuk Members’ rates
Jan
Dear Member – The new events, travel, sport and more are arriving now—all with special CountryClubuk Members’ access and rates: You are invited to a Private Evening aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia with Champagne Reception and Candlelit Banquet in the State Rooms in the footsteps of HM The Queen to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in June: click here to book for our Royal Yacht Britannia Private Event on June 1!
Travel at home and abroad—above, the famous Old Course Hotel at St Andrews—enjoy exclusive Members’ rates on all trqvel, saving up to 70%: please click here to see all the travel deals!
Our exclusive private invitation to a Black Tie Dinner at HRH The Prince of Wales’s Highgrove Estate with Private Garden Tour has been arranged by Highgrove for Tuesday, June 14, 2022: full details will be arriving soon, so please watch out for the eNews—and click here to register your interest!
There’s fabulous ‘bucket list’ events and travel for 2022 and 2023, including the glamorous Belmond Orient-Express from London to Venice, the Royal Scotsman and the British Pullman for Great British rail trips, plus handpicked hotels and resorts at home and abroad: click for our fabulous international hotels and resort deals, UK country hotels including some of the UK’s most iconic hotels, London five-star hotels, UK city hotels and more—with flexible rates and treats such as free room upgrades and Champagne—and of course the Club’s celebrated free country breaks!
You are invited to book for rugby and cricket internationals, racing and Henley Regatta—and to fish for salmon in Norway and Scotland in 2022, and on England’s most prolific and beautiful salmon river.
The Club is also a great way to organise your delicious gourmet food, superb wines and perfect gifts for all your favourite people—all at exclusive, unbeatable Members-only prices, delivered to your door!
There is more, much more—please read on, and enjoy!
Top-class sport: rugby, polo, cricket, golf, racing, rowing, horse trials, horse shows, salmon fishing and more: Rugby internationals are a speciality: Six Nations, Autumn Internationals, Rugby World Cup and more
Rugby Internationals are another Club speciality. Through our relationship with the RFU, Members have long had access to the top matches, from Six Nations to Autumn Internationals—and the Rugby World Cup, next year in France. Tickets to all matches are even more prized since the pandemic. Click here to register your interest! And click here for full details and to book tickets for the next England match at Twickenham!
And as for the sport and social season ahead, there are invitations to join the parties at the Cartier Queen’s Cup Final at Guards Polo Club (click for full details and to arrange your visit!), the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (click for full details and to arrange your visit!), plus Henley Royal Regatta, Wimbledon Fortnight, Royal Ascot and the Derby, and more. Please click here to register your interest!
Join our salmon fishing parties—we are delighted to invite you to fish for salmon on one of the top rivers in Norway in 2022—and on the finest English salmon river, the Tyne. Apart from being excellent salmon fishing beats, this is one of the loveliest river valleys in England, with plenty of opportunity for non-fishing companions to walk and enjoy the countryside.
¶ Click here for salmon fishing in Norway, click here to register your interest in England and here for Scotland!
Best seats for the new opera, ballet, theatre, orchestral performances and musicals, including the West End revival of My Fair Lady in May 2022
Best seats for the ballet, opera, theatre and shows—often at a fraction of the price others pay—including the West End revival of the hit musical ‘My Fair Lady’ in Summer 2022: click to register your interest!
As for the performing arts, as the opera houses and theatres open up and we begin to live again to the full, you as a Member can enjoy the best Orchestra Stalls seats at Covent Garden and the London Coliseum for performances by the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet, the English National Opera and English National Ballet, preceded by a delicious Champagne Dinner at The Savoy, The Dorchester and The Ritz—often for less than others pay for their tickets alone. Please click here to register interest for the Opera, and click here to register for the Ballet. For orchestral concerts, please click here. For theatre, please click here! And for the new West End Revival of ‘My Fair Lady’ at the London Coliseum, please click here!
Next season you might also enjoy an opera or ballet at La Scala in Milan and the Mariinsky in St Petersburg. Your tickets, flights and hotel are all arranged for you—just as here in London, all you have to do is turn up! You can combine the performance with a few days’ holiday—all at exclusive Club rates of course. Please call Member Services on 020 7399 2960 or click here to register your interest in La Scala, and click here to register interest in St Petersburg.
More events will be arranged as the venues open up. So please look out for your eNews letters for the latest news, and please make sure your membership is updated, as the tickets sell out like lightning and of course only our Members are eligible to book . . . For more superb events and offers, please read on!
You can save hundreds of pounds by using your exclusive Club rates and upgrades at London hotels.
London hotels: Members enjoy unbeatable rates at handpicked hotels, plus free room upgrades—and even free bottles of Champagne!
It’s worth remembering when you are needing a London hotel that non-Members are likely to be paying up to twice as much as Members due to your fully flexible Club rates. You always receive a better rate, and you don’t have to spend hours surfing the web, trying to seek a good deal—we’ve done the work for you, and we constantly monitor web rates to make sure our Members’ deals, privileges and flexibility are the best.
You can easily save your entire membership fee and more when you book just one night at many of our recommended hotels, the savings for our Members are so good.
The world’s top five-stars give our Members exclusive web-beating rates: Click here to see the latest exclusive CountryClubuk London hotel list. Or call us on 020 7399 2960 to check the very best rates, options and availability for your dates . . .
Free reciprocal Club memberships in London and elsewhere, saving you up to £5,000 in fees
Club membership gives you access to private London clubs, saving you up to £5,000 in fees.
When in London, you can saunter along to your London clubs, or stay the night—as a CountryClubuk Member you enjoy free reciprocal club memberships which can save you up to £5,000 or more in fees, so you can add variety to your club life: The Gherkin in the City, the St James’s in London and the Saint James in Paris, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and the Royal Scots Club in Edinburgh . . . please click here to see the latest reciprocal Clubs in London and elsewhere, and the full benefits!
Palatial, historic country-house stays—including free bottles of Champagne and room upgrades!
Members’ favourite country hotels: Cliveden and Chewton Glen, best rates and free Champagne!
Cliveden House, Grade One Listed and standing in its own rolling parkland estate overlooking the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, must rank among the most sensational of country-house hotels—where society hostess Nancy Astor entertained Royalty and the political luminaries of her day, including Winston Churchill, and the Profumo Affair nearly brought down the Government. Now you are invited guests with special room rates, free upgrades and free bottles of Champagne. . . just one of our exclusive and historic country-house hotels—including ‘England’s Best Hotel’, the superb Chewton Glen in Hampshire, The Lygon Arms and Calcot Manor & Spa in the Cotswolds, and Yorkshire’s only five-star hotel in the mediaeval city of York.
And a new addition to our country hotels is already a Members’ favourite: the world famous Old Course Hotel, Golf and Spa, overlooking the iconic Old Course at St Andrews—this spectacular hotel is in prime location for golfers, and a great option for non-golfers too, with West Sands beach and the beautiful Scottish coastline, as well as the historic town of St Andrews and the whisky distilleries of course. Our Members have exclusive rates at the Old Course Hotel: click here for more details!
For these and more, all at exclusive Club rates, click here to see the latest handpicked country hotels and great Club rates or call us on 020 7399 2960 . . and don’t forget the complimentary Champagne!
Free country hotel breaks, from the Lake District to the North York Moors and more: Members pay for breakfast and dinner each day, accommodation is free of charge
The CountryClubuk Free Breaks are unbeatable: Two-night stays for two: You just pay for breakfast and dinner each day.
Our Free Breaks Portfolio is a Members’ favourite! You can stay in one each month if you wish! They include the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate and Grinkle Park, resplendent in its own estate in North Yorkshire, and named the UK’s ‘Best Shoot Hotel’; Members’ favourite Lindeth Howe, on the banks of Lake Windermere; the Worsley Arms in Hovingham, Yorkshire, and Blackaddie House Hotel on the banks of the Nith, a Scottish salmon river. Breakfast and dinner cost Members from only £50 each per night, but keep that under your hat when you are there—other guests are paying more! Click here to view the hotels and see details or call us on 020 7399 2960 to check availability for your dates.
Free Champagne for you and your guests when you lunch or dine in London and the country—Michelin Star restaurants included!
Finest restaurants, including Michelin Star—and for you and your guests, free Champagne.
As a CountryClubuk Member you enjoy the best tables and complimentary Champagne at leading London and country-house restaurants: eg Enjoy a free glass of Champagne for yourself and your guests when you lunch or dine at the Michelin-starred Ritz Restaurant, The Dorchester Grill and Wiltons in London … plus Cliveden House, Chewton Glen, The Lygon Arms and more in the country.
To see the list of restaurants where you and your guests will enjoy complimentary Champagne, please click here. To check availability and book, call the Member Services team on 020 7399 2960.
World travel deals, from the Mediterranean to the South Seas, the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, Europe and the Baltic, the Americas, South East Asia and more
Our Members have been saving up to 52% on Regent Seven Seas cruises: that’s thousands of pounds!
Travel is an exciting part of the Club—our partnership with the multi-award-winning Regent Seven Seas Cruises is currently saving you up to 52%, which translates into savings of from £3,000 to £6,000 per person and more. We choose selected cruises for these amazing savings—but we also have special advantageous Club rates for every cruise in the Regent calendar, including their most sought-after destinations such as Japan in cherry-blossom time, as well as their newest and most luxurious ships. These are genuine, web-beating savings (we all know cruises reduce rates, but this is very different). Click here to see just some of the fabulous cruises and exclusive Members’ rates.
Many more are already in the pipeline—and as we know so well, our Members receive exclusive Club rates on every Regent cruise, no matter when or where it is. To order the complimentary glossy brochure giving full details of these amazing cruise itineraries—all with exceptional rates for you as a Club Member—please click here to request a brochure by post or call Member Services on 020 7399 2960.
Exclusive travel and flight deals—for Club Members, the very best rates
World travel is a Club speciality: Members can regularly save up to 70% off rack rates.
As a CountryClubuk Member you have access to exclusive flexible rates and free upgrades in handpicked hotels across the world—and our Members regularly cut up to 70% off hotel rack rates, beating all others, whether on the web or elsewhere.
There’s so many wonderful travel deals: for instance, you can jet off to the Maldives for blissful nights in an overwater or beach villa, with water sports and fly fishing, saving thousands of pounds (click for details). Or take off to a Caribbean island—from St Barth’s to Jamaica, the Turks and Caicos and more. Luxuriate at delightful Belmond Reid’s Palace in the Garden Isle of Madeira, pictured above (click for details). Enjoy nights in palazzos in Venice, Rome, Sicily and on the Amalfi Coast.
Take wonderful refreshing country holidays—sip wine in the Prince of Wales’s personal country retreat in Transylvania, watch the Big Five from a private five-star safari lodge in South Africa and travel the Blue Train, or take a beach holiday in a superb family-owned hotel in Spain. The choice is wide, and always increasing as new deals and opportunities arrive: click here to see just some of the latest travel deals!
Flights are another speciality. Members use the Club for business travel as well as leisure—saving themselves and their companies thousands of pounds a year. For details, please call us on 020 7399 2960—or click here to email and let us know which destinations and dates you are considering.
Don’t miss the world’s most romantic rail journey: London to Venice on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express—or take the Royal Scotsman for a Scottish dream trip
And if the idea of experiencing the luxurious Venice-Simplon-Orient Express from London to Venice is a dream, don’t leave it too long before you make it a reality! Join our newly announced journey in Spring 2023—all the 2022 London-Venice trips are long since fully booked (please don’t delay, click here now to read the full feature on the Club website, and to book)!
There are more luxurious and historic rail journeys to enjoy through your Club Membership, with advantageous rates on the best routes taken by the Royal Scotsman, the British Pullman (watch out for Chatsworth in June!), the Hiram Bingham from Cusco to Machu Picchu, and the Eastern & Oriental Express from Bangkok to Singapore: click here to register your interest in these exciting rail journeys—and look out for the new dates on eNews!
Fabulous jewellery, fashion, tailoring, sporting kit, gourmet food and wine, limited edition bronzes and silver, ideas for home and garden: Members save up to 70%!
As a Club Member, you need never again pay retail prices for many of the things you need and enjoy—and some you may well like to enjoy more often!
You enjoy shippers’ prices for award-winning wines and gourmet food, fabulous gemstone jewellery from Hatton Garden and gleaming natural pearls from the South Seas, chic fashion, smart tailoring, country and sporting kit, limited edition bronzes, English silver and more. Famous brands include Liberty Silk, Peugeot, Hunter, Aigle, Swarovski, Musto, Victorinox, Arthur Price of England, Magee of Donegal, Massoti of Italy, Christys’ & Co, Really Wild, Harris Tweed, Royal Brierley, Dartington Crystal, Taylor of Old Bond Street. And in the refined and super-selective Club Cellar, Château Latour, Château Canon and more in Bordeaux, Dom Pérignon, Ruinart, Veuve Clicquot and Krug Champagne, single malt whisky including Glenmorangie and Ardbeg, Hennessy Cognac and Members’ favourite Sauvignon Blanc, Cloudy Bay, now on vintage 2021. Plus some fine Burgundy, some ‘Super Seconds’ of Bordeaux, and hidden gems starting at £99 per case of 12 bottles delivered. Read on!
Fashions and accessories in pure silk, wool, fur, alpaca, linen and cotton are a big hit with our Members: click here to see the collections in Liberty Silk: click here to see the Really Wild fashions: click here to see the latest from Nancy Mac: and here to see the Hunter and Aigle boots. There is more, much more, and the new season’s fashions are arriving daily, so please look out for the latest eNews and visit the fashion pages on the website often to stay up to date with all the new arrivals!
For the garden, Members love Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medallists Ascalon Designs’ garden furniture (click for details and some favourite deals). For the home, the famous Omersa leather rhinos, hippos, elephants and Yorkshire pigs at exclusive low Club price: click here to see just some of these amazing handmade Omersa leather footstools—the savings for a single animal can be far more than your entire annual Club membership fee for a single item. As we say, you can’t lose!
Fine jewellery from London’s Hatton Garden and the South Seas: Expert advice, independent valuation, moneyback guarantees—and up to 70% off.
Our Members make savings of off the retail prices of precious diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald and pearl jewellery. How do we achieve this? Our specialists buy pearls direct from the South Seas and diamonds and other precious gems from London’s Hatton Garden and the gemstone capitals of the world—and we pass on to you the high profit margins, with valuations and full 100% moneyback guarantees. As we say, you can’t lose! We guarantee it, in writing. For more details of the new 2022 Jewel Collection, and some of our Members’ favourite classic designs, please click here!
As for gentlemen’s tailoring, from tweed jackets to city suits and sporting kit, cashmere and merino knitwear from Italy, waistcoats and tailcoats, Christy’s hats (don’t forget to order your handmade Christy’s Luxury Polished Black Top Hat in good time for the Derby and Royal Ascot at £197 instead of £379).
¶ Click here for all the Gentlemen’s tailoring, accessories and more!
The Club Cellar is brimming with good wine, sourced by our wine connoisseurs, selected by our independent Club Wine Tasting Panel, and available to you as a Member at the exclusive shippers’ prices achieved by our negotiators. For example, the world-famous Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc is only £111 per case of six bottles delivered to Members, instead of the RRP of £210 (click here for Cloudy Bay!).
And for fine wines, see the sensational 2012 vintage Leoville-Poyferre St Julien: click here!
¶ To view all the superb white wine deals in the Club Cellar, click here.
¶ To view all the exclusive deals on the Tasting Panel’s red wine selection in the Club Cellar, click here.
¶ For Champagne, from famous names to hidden gems, click here!
Gourmet food, from caviar to Wagyu beef and suckling pig, from smoked salmon and turbot to foie gras and fresh truffles, from macarons to chocolate truffles and quite possibly the world’s best puddings, all at exclusive Members’ prices: click to visit the Club Larder!
Fine food is a Club speciality, delivered to your door: Foie gras is a luxury we may soon have to do without—so click here to enjoy now and see what we’ll be missing! Then there’s chemical-free Var smoked salmon: this is the smoked salmon served in top London restaurants such as the Michelin-starred Ritz: enjoy a side now and you’ll never want to eat ordinary smoked salmon again: click here! And Members love the supreme Wagyu beef too, which is hardly surprising! From succulent fillet and sirloin steaks to roasting joints, all at chef’s prices: click here for finest Wagyu beef, other fresh meat, and game at Club prices.
And then of course there is caviar: our Members enjoy the best, again at chef’s prices, which generally saves you some 30% or more. You can choose from Beluga, oscietra and other fine fresh caviars—for the Club’s Ultimate Fresh Caviar Collection. Click to see the finest fresh caviar at exclusive Club rates. And then there’s the delicious Cornish fish and shellfish, from turbot and Dover soles to lobsters and scallops, all brought fresh to your door from the UK’s Best Fishmonger—it’s official—they won the title! Click here for just some of the delicious fish and shellfish!
Not forgetting amazing chocolate truffles—and possibly the world’s best traditional British puddings!
¶ To see all the delicious gourmet foods, with more arriving daily, click here!
We look forward to helping you to make the most of your membership year-round!
We aim to make sure that being a CountryClubuk Member is a pleasure you will enjoy year-round. To book any of the above events or offers, a stay in an hotel or club, or to check what new arrangements are currently arriving, as a Member of the Club you can call us now on 020 7399 2960 or click here to visit the Club website at any time. (You do not need to log in to the website: it recognises you as a CountryClubuk Member.) We much look forward to hearing from you—and to tempting you to enjoy yourself in an exciting year ahead.
With all good wishes