Having recently stayed at the George in Rye I can thoroughly recommend the hotel for a romantic getaway. After dining in the hotel restaurant on our first night (very good), we ventured to the Fish Café on Tower Street for our second evening. Attentive service, good wine and well worth the visit for the reasonably priced seafood. We both ate lobster for a fraction of the price we'd normally pay in London. However, back at the George, it seems the hotel has implemented a new bar policy on Friday and Saturday nights. Whether this is just for the summer months I am not sure – but the only people allowed to drink in the bar on these nights now are hotel guests and their friends and those dining in the restaurant. So, if you're staying at another hotel nearby, you can no longer drop into the George for a quick pint on a weekend after 7pm. The reason for the policy, apparently, is to keep noise levels down for hotel guests – fair enough if you're staying there. But on our visit, we heard some very disgruntled, respectable locals voicing their disappointment to the manager. For us, though, it wasn't a problem. On a much-needed and awaited romantic getaway, and after a marriage proposal written in the sand on Camber Sands that morning, my partner and I were only interested in each other and our bottle of celebratory champagne.
