To celebrate this year's World Bee Day on Monday 20th May, St Ermin's Hotel and their 350,000 Buckfast honey bees are delighted to gift a free copy of beautifully produced book The Good Bee, A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCullum to the first 50 diners who book a table for afternoon tea on that day. With hand-made illustrations throughout, this is a story for our times and a book to treasure…

Continue the celebration of bees and visit the hotel's bees hard at work on the third floor Bee Terrace where they have been happy residents since 2011 or for a real insight into these fascinating creatures attend a popular beekeeping workshop at the hotel!

The delicious new 'Garden Afternoon Tea' features sweet and savoury indulgences that draw inspiration from the season's finest ingredients, many of which are grown in the hotel's rooftop kitchen garden, and uses honey from our bees…