Mr & Mrs Smith

The Reading Rooms

Kent, United Kingdom

18th-century Margate was a fashionable place to be – The Reading Rooms hotel rekindles this romance with its preserved Georgian features, antiques and seaside setting. Even the boutique B&B’s name is a nod to the town’s heyday, when visitors flocked to the spas, tearooms and libraries. Rooms are regal, each spanning an entire floor.

Need to know

• Rooms Three.
• Rates Double rooms from $209.54 (£133), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (£133) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates include breakfast (cooked options and cold) .
• Facilities In-rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD player, free bottled water and REN products.
• Check-out 10.30am during the week, 11.30am at weekends. Check-in, from 4pm.
• Children This hotel is better suited to couples - leave the children at home!
• Also Margate's shops and restaurants tend to close on Sundays and Mondays.

Food and drink at The Reading Rooms

• Hotel restaurant This is a B&B affair, so there’s no restaurant, but a generous breakfast (including cooked treats, fruit salads, pastries and jams) will be served in your room.
• Dress code Artfully disheveled attire, to fit in with the hotel’s particular brand of casual cool. Go vintage with a lace camisole or patterned shirt and team with dark denim.
• Last orders Just let the owners know how early you would like your morning meal – breakfast is served until 10.30am on weekends, 10am during the week.
• Room service Just breakfast.
• Hotel bar There’s no bar, so there’s all the more reason to explore Kent’s finest drinking dens.

The Reading Rooms 31 Hawley Square, Kent CT9 1PH