The Varsity Hotel & Spa is an independently owned 46 room boutique hotel and spa in the hub of the Cambridge town’s buzzing Q ... uayside area. The design concept is modern British, juxtaposing the traditional with cutting-edge elements throughout the hotel’s six floors. All interior design elements combine fabrics and wallpapers from Colefax and Fowler, Osborne and Little, Farrow and Ball and other established British names. Although each room is individual, guests can expect to see strong patterned wallpapers from Nineteenth Century English cotton print or botanical influences, solid oak flooring throughout each room, sandstone bathrooms with monsoon showers and some with free standing Victorian baths. The venue is ideal for hosting corporate events as the hotel also has newly referbished conference rooms, two restaurants, a roof top terrace, health club with daily studio classes and an Elemis spa. SIX (www.sixcambridge.co.uk), the panoramic bar and restaurant and the stunning Roof Top Terrace located on the sixth and seventh floors of the hotel provide breathtaking 360 degree views across the city skyline and The River Bar Steakhouse & Grill (www.riverbarsteakhouse.com), both housed at the hotel are great additional options for bespoke private drink and canape events, as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Glassworks Spa is located in the adjoining warehouse building and provides a cutting-edge health club with state-of-the-art gym equipment and yoga, pilates, aerobics, spinning classes on site. The spa itself comprises of a beautiful Jacuzzi that overlooks the river, a sauna and steam room and eight private rooms offering treatments from facials and massage to manicures and pedicures. . Ideally situated in the heart of the Cambridge, the impressive corporate spaces at the hotel are just an hour by car from Stansted Airport and 45 minutes on the train from London. read more