Nobody ‘checks in’ at Estelle Manor, the hulking, Elizabethan-style mansion built in 1908 that reopened as a hotel and private member’s club in Oxfordshire last summer. That kind of shop talk ...

Fiona Duncan checks into Estelle Manor with her family in tow. I’m a hotel critic by trade. I go to hotels, usually on my own. I check out the food in the dining room, walk around the grounds ...