Best Hotels In...
The best hotels in Brighton, England. Including luxury at Drakes, Hotel Du Vin & MyHotel and value accommodation at Pelirocco, Kipps and Sea Spray.
Best hotels in Brighton, England | Budget accommodation (£)
It’s worth hunting around with the usual booking sites to see which hotels are offering special deals – mid-range at budget prices is better than budget at budget prices. Two good cost-conscious options, however, are the Kings Hotel (139 Kings Road) and Best Western Brighton (143 Kings Road). Both offer modern, if a little bland, rooms in a seafront location for from £49 a night. The private rooms in the buzzy, ultra-sociable Kipps (76 Grande Parade) are of far higher quality than you’d expect from a hostel, although bathrooms are shared.
Best hotels in Brighton, England | Mid-range hotels (££)
Brighton’s most rock and roll option is the Pelirocco (10 Regency Square), where music journos hang around in the bar and all the rooms are enthusiastically themed around record labels or pop culture icons. It plays up the naughty vibe – right down to in-room sex toy menus. Also themed, but more subdued, is the rather lovely Sea Spray (25 New Steine). The £59-plus rooms are dedicated to everything from Elvis to geishas, but it’s all very smartly done. Motel Schmotel (37 Russell Square) is a great, less wacky option with cool pictures of Brighton scenes on the walls and thoughtful, contemporary furnishing.
Best hotels in Brighton, England | Luxury hotels (£££ to £££££)
The Grand (97 King’s Road, £££) is Brighton’s most famous hotel – it’s where the politicians stay come party conference season – but while the rooms are a little dowdier than some of Brighton’s hipper options, the facilities and sea views are great. The £120-and-above king rooms at Square (4 New Steine, £££) are super-stylish; you’ll end up wanting to take 90% of the furniture home with you. Hotel Una (55 Regency Square, £££) also has a bit of a design magazine bent, with plenty of leather on display and a slightly different character in every room.
Drakes (43 Marine Parade, ££££) is the classiest of the city’s small hotels, and all twenty rooms have an individual look and feel. The decór’s sophisticated, the downstairs bar a great cocktail hangout and the fab sea view attic rooms are available for from £165 a night. The Feng Shui-friendly curved walls, designer beds and eye-poppingly bold colour schemes make the frenetically unsubdued MyHotel (17 Jubilee Street, ££££) feel very Brighton. The£££££ junior suites and above at the Hotel Du Vin (2 Ship Street) are probably the most elegant option in town, however. Supercomfy beds, iPod docks and sumptuous public areas are all trump cards.
Brighton hotel prices
Price brackets are based, roughly, on the starting rates that can be found in low season.
£ = under £50 a night
££ = under £100 a night
£££ = under £150 a night
££££ = under £200 a night
£££££ = over £200 a night.
The Brighton hotels above have been personally inspected – and recommended as being amongst the best in their price bracket – by travel journalist David Whitley. To look for other hotels in Brighton, try a Brighton hotel search with our booking partner, Ebookers.com.
Disclaimer: These hotels were inspected in January 2011. Things may have changed since then.
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