Any hot tub will get you warm. A wood-fired one gets you somewhere else entirely — closer to a fire in a garden than an appliance in a box.

Plenty of places have a hot tub. Fewer have a sauna. Very few genuinely have both, privately, in the same booking. That combination — heat, cold, steam, and nobody else around — is one of the most distinctive things a countryside break can offer, and it's rarer than the marketing

Summer at The Firs means wild swimming in the moat, long days in the gardens and wood-fired hot tubs under late sunsets. A countryside retreat in Suffolk, 2 hours from London, 45 minutes from Norwich.