Or, stay within the castle walls to admire the four-poster and canopied beds, cast-bronze fireplaces, stained-glass windows and sweeping water views.

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Ornate four-poster beds furnished the bedrooms and there were lavish decorations all around.

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In the empty room stood the tangled metal wreck of what was once a four-poster bed.

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Settling into my four-poster bed, I'm lulled by the sound of the wind spiralling up off the sea, joined by the faint creak of a rocking chair and, just perhaps, the slightest click of a key turning in a lock.

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Scattered about our tents are antiques: Persian rugs, pith helmets, four-poster beds, and gramophones that crackle and squeak to the accompaniment of the chirping crickets outside.

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The ornate hotel is filled with European antiques and elegant suites (some with four poster beds and claw-foot tubs), plus modern amenities such as large flat screen televisions and complimentary high-speed wi-fi throughout the historic five-storey brick structure.

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Cathedral House Hotel brings some of the grandness of a Scottish baronial mansion to central Glasgow, with pointy turrets, steep spiral stairs and four-poster beds.

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