Foxhills Club & Resort

Foxhills is a country club and resort with rooms, set on an estate at Stonehill Road in Ottershaw. The listing files it under Cobham, and that is roughly the territory it serves, the stretch of north-west Surrey where the commuter towns thin out into golf courses and gravelled drives, but the address is Ottershaw, KT16, and anyone putting it into a satnav should use that rather than assuming a Cobham postcode.

It is a hotel, but the hotel is not really the point. The draw is the estate: championship golf, a spa, and a spread of family facilities across the grounds. Accommodation and dining sit alongside those rather than leading them. That shapes who it suits. If you want a room in a town centre with restaurants and a station on the doorstep, this is the wrong shape of place. If you want to arrive, park, and not move the car again until you leave, it is very much the right one.

The £££ band puts it above a pub with rooms and below the county's most expensive country-house hotels. Expect resort pricing rather than boutique pricing, which usually means the headline room rate is only part of the sum, with golf, spa treatments and meals adding up over a weekend. Worth working out in advance what your stay actually includes, because the difference between a bed-only booking and a package can be considerable at this kind of venue.

The kitchen is British. Beyond that, the facts do not specify what is served or where, and a resort of this size may well run more than one dining room with different formats and hours. Check what is open and what needs booking before you travel, particularly if you are arriving late or eating with children.

Best for, according to the listing, is golf breaks and family weekends, and those two are doing a lot of work together. A golf resort that also markets itself to families is making a specific promise: that one half of a group can play eighteen holes while the other half does something else entirely, and everyone meets for dinner. That works well for multi-generation weekends and for groups with mixed interests. It is less obviously a romantic bolthole, and it is not a quiet retreat.

Practical points. It is an estate, so distances between buildings matter if anyone in your party has mobility issues, ask when booking. Club and resort venues often have membership arrangements that affect access to facilities for hotel guests; confirm what your booking covers rather than assuming.

Within its patch, Foxhills occupies a clear position: the large-estate option for people who want golf, a spa and space for children in one place, priced accordingly. Surrey has plenty of good hotels. It has fewer that can absorb a whole weekend without you needing to leave.