Drakes Hotel

Well equipped rooms with a lovely bathtub and an amazing bed. Very friendly staff, nice bar in the lobby with a sea view. Generous breakfast served in the room.

It was a lovely long weekend staying with Drakes in Brighton. We found the staff super more welcoming and helpful than average. The view from our window was breathtaking which is exactly what we expected!

We were informed by the staff that the front door of the hotel would need the card to activate after 11pm for security reasons and instructions were given during the check-in. However when we returned to the hotel late around 11pm we found that the card wouldn’t work after several tries. We had to ring and waited for the staff to come get us (which we hated because we didn’t want to disturb anyone at this late). Then I asked whether it was the problem of our card’s. However the staff clarified it was the door’s issue which resulted the failure that we couldn’t get in. Just think the information that staff had could be more up to date. There was an accident happened at the final night of our stay. We came back in the evening and found out all the lights couldn’t work at all except the one in the bathroom. Asked the staff for help but they couldn’t do anything for us (not even come up and check on it). We were unlucky that night as my partner needed to do some urgent work by hand whereas there wasn’t light so we had to use the phone for hours.

The staff are phenomenal

We decided on a smaller room due to last minute booking but having been before can definitely say the sea view is worth the upgrade