South Sands
Style Nautical beach retreat
Setting Secluded Salcombe cove
The nautical beiges, whites and blues that make up
Need to know
- Rooms 27, including five beach suites.
- Rates Double rooms from $236.73 (£150), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
- More details Rates include full English breakfast.
- Facilities Free WiFi, and a DVD library. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD player, iPod dock, tea and coffee-making facilities and minibar.
- Check-out 11am, but flexible (subject to availability). Earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Children The hotel is family-friendly, and little Smiths are very welcome. Cots (£12.50 a night) and extra beds (£27.50 or £35) are available. More...
- Also Two-night minimum stay. Dogs are welcome for £10 a night. Guests can also indulge in in-room beauty treatments.
Food and drink at South Sands
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Hotel restaurant
The restaurant and adjoining terrace are two of the hotel’s best assets: the curved, floor-to-ceiling windows mean that there are bay views from every table. Mitch Tonks, award-winning food writer, restaurateur and fishmonger, has devised the restaurant’s modern Mediterranean menu. In the evenings, the focus is on the locally sourced, organic produce and fresh fish, whereas the lunch menu is more relaxed, with burgers, sandwiches and the like. Be sure to book advance in summer.
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Dress code
Casual but groomed. Anything with a nautical twist is guaranteed to be a hit. -
Top table
If there’s a gang of you, the booth seats in the corners create a more intimate setting for a get-together, but the main priority should be to get a table nearest the window. -
Last orders
Be as leisurely as you like about lunch – it’s served until 4pm. Dinner is available until 9.30pm, and the bar is open until 11pm. -
Room service
The full restaurant menu is available during restaurant hours, and the kitchen can provide light snacks 24 hours a day. -
Hotel bar
The small, informal cocktail bar has a warm, woody feel, with an eye-catching bar front set with blocks of oak. There’s a different aperitif on the menu every night, but our favourite is the South Sands Cooler – a striking blue drink made out of Southern Comfort, curaçao, elderflower cordial and soda.
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A bottle of Perrier Jouet champagne in the room on arrival
In the know
Our favourite rooms
At South Sands, it’s all about the sea views. Beach Suite 3 boasts the best vista, and, as with all the Beach Suites, has a sitting room, dining area, kitchen, balcony, and two double rooms. The J-Class room is the honeymoon suite, and has an eight-foot bed with a wooden frame, adorned with a mixture of pale and royal blue cushions, and a pair of freestanding, roll-top, twin tubs. As befits its status, it also has a spectacular view of the waves.
Packing tips
Bring a wetsuit if you plan to try the sailing school next-door. If you’re not the sort of person that would just have one hanging in the back of the wardrobe, you can always rent one.
Also
Take cream tea out on the terrace, and engage in the perennial cream-before-jam vs jam-before-cream debate.
From the Guestbook…
We very much enjoyed our stay at South Sands, especially the upgrade to room 8 with its fab sea view. We went for the walking and the eating. It's a few minutes' walk to join...
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