New take on bathing delights as the Kingsley splashes out

Tommy Barker says new-look Kingsley has presidential suite ambitions.

A HOT tub outdoors on the roof balcony, big enough for a gang to share, or foaming stand-alone baths on a pedestal with a river view, mood lighting and tea-lights, powerful drenching rain-forest showers.....yes, truly, the ghost of the old outdoor Lee Baths has been banished, vanquished, submerged.

The hot and cold running features of the 131-bed hotel, opened in 1998 and, redesigned for the noughties, replaced the legendary Lee Baths or Lee Pool.