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Drakes

Brighton, United Kingdom

Style Luxurious townhouse

Setting Seafront Kemp Town

The bedrooms at Drakes' hotel are surprisingly airy and spacious for a Regency building, and they make full advantage of the seafront location. And to tempt you out of your boudoir there is a Thai-tinged reception/bar and, cocooned in the basement, the acclaimed restaurant.

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  • Rooms 20.
  • Rates Double rooms from $137.07 (£87), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
  • 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.
  • Check-out 11am.
  • Children Welcome, cots available. More...
  • Also Minimum two-night stay at weekends, and three-night stay on bank-holiday weekends.

Food and drink at Drakes

  • Hotel restaurant

    The hotel's award-winning restaurant is one of Brighton's most highly regarded, and 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.

Drakes 44 Marine Parade, Brighton, BN2 1PE

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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.

From the Guestbook…

The in-room massage service at Drakes is brilliant. For good Thai food go to Tooka's café - it is a scruffy building but all the effort is put into the food. The tapas at Ol...

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