£129 - 'Enthralling' Georgian Sussex Getaway w/Dinner & Fizz

The Deal

The "Georgian features are a delight and the food is even better", says The Times of The Shelleys in Lewes, praising its "enthralling" setting in the Sussex South Downs. Stays at this Grade II-listed hotel recommended by The Guardian and The Good Hotel Guide and listed in the Michelin Guide are now £129 with this offer -- up to 48% off.

Valid Sunday-Thursday from 2 December-28 March, 2013, this deal includes:

-Overnight stay for two with full English breakfast
-Complimentary upgrade to a Superior room (worth £50)
-3-course dinner from a seasonal menu at the Apostrophe restaurant (worth £28 per person)
-Glass of pre-dinner prosecco (worth £6.50 each)

Extend your stay with extra nights on a bed-and-breakfast basis for £80 per room.

Built in 1590, The Shelleys is just off Lewes' historic High Street and was once home to Henry Shelley, a relation of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Michelin Guide praises its "spacious, classically styled" bedrooms and "smart restaurant". Dinner is from a seasonal menu that changes each month, with five choices per course. Sample delights such as a warm salad of smoked duck with beetroot and pomegranate, monkfish with artichoke and boulangère potatoes, and white and dark chocolate pavé with passionfruit sorbet.

Brighton is only nine miles away, but Lewes itself has a lot to offer -- explore revolutionary Thomas Paine's old haunts, including the bar at the White Hart Hotel, take a walk up to Lewes Castle overlooking the town, or head west on the South Downs Way to see the windmills at Clayton.