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Drakes
- Style
- Luxurious townhouse
- Setting
- Seafront Kemp Town
The large airy room in this spacious Regency building take full advantage of the seafront location, and glorious windows promised let the light flood in.
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 hotel's restaurant serves contemporary European cuisine provided by celebrated chef Andy MacKenzie.
- 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
If you’d prefer to talk to someone, or you’re having trouble booking online, ring our travel team on 0845 034 0700 (+44 20 8987 4312 from outside the UK). We guarantee you’ll get the best available rates, and we don’t charge a booking fee.
Local restaurants
The sea-green castle that is
Hotel du Vin (01273 718588. For review, click here) is in the heart of the Lanes, a stroll from the seafront. The waiters can be relied on to recommend the most delicious complement to what is always an exceptional French-bistro-style meal, and with consideration for your wallet. For lunch on the pebbled beach, head to
Jack & Linda’s shack at 197 King’s Road Arches, and you’ll get the best grilled-mackerel sandwich imaginable, for less than £3.
Nightlife
For an entire night of entertainment, check what’s on at the
Joogleberry Playhouse (01273 687171). You can eat mouthwatering tapas at affordable prices, and downstairs is a cabaret bar that offers live entertainment nightly, in a smoky jazz-club environment. For more information, visit
www.joogleberry.com.
Worth getting out of bed for
Water-skiing, wake-boarding and sailing are available in Brighton. The hotel can organise a fitness instructor to pick you up and take you for a run if you feel the need to work out.
Diary
Mid April–mid May Brighton Arts Fringe festival (
www.brightonfringe.net).
First week in August is Gay Pride (
www.brightonpride.org).
October Brighton comedy festival (
www.brightoncomedyfestival.com).
New Year's Eve Firework display on Brighton Pier, which can be watched from your room.