Mr & Mrs Smith's Recommended Hotels for Romance

Come lie with me - the world's top five most seductive beds with love from Mr & Mrs Smith

Blanket Coverage - the boutique hotel experts at Mr & Mrs Smith lay down a list of their five favourite places to sleep, from an Elizabethan original in Somerset to a Moorish prayer hole in Marrakech. They've made your bed, so why not lie in it?

Drakes Hotel, Brighton - Located on the first floor of this luxurious Regency townhouse, room 104, with its floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the English Channel, has to be the finest bedroom in Brighton. It certainly has the largest bed. Unless you or your partner are a particularly lanky basketball player, or suffer from overactive pituitary problems, there's no way you'll even come close to impacting on its seven-foot width. So slip between the Egyptian cotton sheets and the luxurious duck-down duvet, and make the most of all that extra space. Rooms from £95-£295.

The Gore, London - If it's all-singing, all-dancing opulence you're after, then the Venus Room, one of 10 feature rooms at this stylish Victorian hotel in Kensington, does it with aplomb - and with jazz hands. Camper than a flock of flamingos in feather boas, the room is worth checking into for its bathroom alone - statues of Venus and Adonis peer down at you while you're soaking in the bath, and a kitsch frieze of the goddess of love riding a chariot adorns one wall. The bed itself, an ornate four-poster with a glittering filigree headboard beneath scarlet-and-gold-drapes, used to belong to Judy Garland. Fabulous. Mr and Mr Smith will definitely have a feeling they're not in Kansas anymore. Rooms from £145-£295

Charlton House, Somerset - The Mulberry-swathed, classic environs of Charlton House are the ideal surroundings for a spot of old-school courting, and all of its 25 rooms rack up high scores on the ridiculously romantic scale. The South Wing room, though, offers a four-poster bed constructed from an original Elizabethan fireplace, so you can take your wench or squire a-bed, and tumble merrily beneath a sombre panelled canopy and an ornately carved - and incredibly beautiful - 16th-century headboard. Rooms from £180 - £465

Pool House, Poolewe - Scotland - Those expecting tartan counterpanes and shortbread fingers on the bedside table are in for a surprise at this Scottish hotel. The spirit of the Indian subcontinent has somehow found its way to Ross-shire, and interiors based on Maharajahs' palaces seem to be all the Raj here. The Nairana Suite, a huge area with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and an enormous seating area, is home to the sort of antique bed you'd usually only see in a museum. Lie back and you can't help thinking of India. Beautiful miniatures of landscapes, framed in floral wreaths, stud the enamelled canopy, while tiny inlaid pieces of mirrored glass sparkle like stars in a clear Rahasthani sky. Rooms from £200-£450

Dar Darma, Marrakech - Morocco - A new addition to Mr & Mrs Smith's Marrakech collection, Dar Darma is a quirky, private riad in the heart of the medina, which combines traditional Arabic design with striking, contemporary interiors. The huge Red Suite, a quiet retreat from the most bustling part of this most hectic of cities, houses a bed that will certainly appeal to the more spiritually minded couple. Accessed through a gorgeous arch, the wooden bed is situated in a cosy former prayer nook, lined with beautiful carved wooden panelling, and points its incumbents' heads in the direction of Mecca. Very Moorish. Rooms from €160-€360

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