Need to know

Rooms

Four; plus a self-contained cottage.

Rates

Standard rooms, £130; deluxe rooms, £150, including breakfast. Two-night minimum stay at weekends. (Rates increase by £20 on Bank Holidays. During Goodwood events, including Glorious Goodwood, the Revival and Festival of Speed, all rates are £200).

Check-out

11am; earliest check-in, 2pm.

Facilities

Small garden, car park. In rooms, flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player iPod dock sound system, free WiFi and broadband internet connection, L'Occitane toiletries.

Children

Children stay in parents' rooms for £30 a night; babysitting can be arranged with two weeks' notice (£10 an hour).

Hotel closed

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Also

Pets unfortunately cannot be accommodated. A three-night minimum stay applies during the Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival, as well as over Bank Holiday weekends.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

Standard rooms 2 and 3 are smaller, but have large baths with rain-showers. The Deluxe rooms are slightly larger and have lovely views over Pagham Harbour; room 1 has a bath tub; up in the eaves, wooden-beamed room 4 has a walk-in shower.

Packing tips

Binoculars for birdspotting; vintage finery for Goodwood Revival; jelly shoes for walking along West Wittering's pebbly beach.

Also

Self-contained Crab cottage has two double rooms and can be booked for £180 a night (based on two adults sharing; add £20 a night for additional guests); or £380 for two-night weekend stays (Fri–Sun).

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

With flagstone floors and specials chalked on blackboards in trad-pub fashion, the Crab & Lobster's Modern British menu focuses on locally landed fish and locally reared meats. Look out for the Selsey crab and sardines caught on the south coast.

Dress code

Casual cable-knits and sailing clobber.

Top table

Snag a table by the inglenook fireplace.

Last orders

The pub is open 11am–11pm; food is served 12–2.30pm and 6pm–9.30pm (9pm on Sundays).

Room service

None, but there are tea and coffee trays in rooms, and minifridges with complimentary mineral water and milk. Guests' breakfast is served in the main restaurant, 7.30am–9.45am weekdays; 8.30am–9.45am weekends and bank holidays.

Hotel bar

Perch with a pint on dark-leather stools at the polished-pine and brick bar, or cosy up with a bottle of wine in a pair of leather bucket chairs.

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The Crab & Lobster

Mill Lane, Sidlesham, West Sussex