Drakes

Need to know

Rooms

20.

Rates

£100–£325, including VAT.

Check-out

11h.

Facilities

24-hour licensed bar, Internet, DVD plasma, air-con, some room. Can arrange massages, hairdressing, fitness instruction, day passes to nearby leisure complex, or beauty treatment. Extensive concierge service.

Children

Welcome, cots available.

Also

Minimum two-night stay at weekends, and three-night stay on bank-holiday weekends.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

104 is the largest room where the rich and famous stay, with free-standing bath positioned so you can watch the sun set over the sea. It has the largest bed in Brighton at seven foot wide. Attic room 404 has views over the Regency Mile and sea.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

The Gingerman, sister to the city’s most acclaimed restaurant (also called the Gingerman), the hotel's restaurant serves contemporary European cuisine provided by Egon Ronay award-winning chef Ben McKellar.

Dress code

London-on-sea.

Top table

Next to the original Georgian brickwork, in the corner.

Room service

Drinks and anything from restaurant during opening hours: breakfast, lunch and dinner, and snacks.

Hotel bar

The bar has an award-winning barman making the cocktails. A place to celebrity-spot while looking out to sea.

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Smith concierge

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Drakes

44 Marine Parade, Brighton, East Sussex