The Bird is Bath doing maximalism properly. The 29 bedrooms sit inside a handsome townhouse overlooking the Recreation Ground, but inside it’s all colour, statement art, patterned wallpaper and rooms that very much refuse to behave like sensible Georgian bedrooms.

For groups, the compromise is the sleeping set-up. Most published room categories are doubles or kings rather than obvious multi-share rooms, so this isn’t the hotel for squeezing four into one bedroom. Where it gets much more interesting is downstairs: there’s a bar, restaurant, terrace and dedicated private-event space, and the hotel openly promotes celebrations for groups of friends.

It’s the sort of place Main Characters would choose when the hotel itself is part of the weekend, rather than somewhere you only return to at 1am. Drinks on the terrace, dinner downstairs and skyline views give the group somewhere to actually spend time together — just confirm hen acceptance directly before relying on it commercially.