Hydro Hotel

The hotel itself is beautiful and you get a real sense of history when you walk in. We saw lots of families of many generations coming in for afternoon tea. The grounds in the hotel are stunning and the pool area is extremely private in a nice gated area.

We booked in for a weekend when we realised that the annual Airbourne events were taking place. Due to that only the last few remaining rooms were available. This meant that we paid £200 for a tiny room in the very back of the hotel. The shower cubicle was very small to use. My partner is 6"4 so this felt quite claustrophobic. The toilet is also in a very confined space next to the shower unit which had very minimal space to move. The room itself was clean and it looked lovely. There was notably no water in the room and it was a very hot day. There was no answer when we called down to reception multiple times to request drinks so my partner went down himself in the end. The sign on the side of the window said not to have the window open as the pigeons come in so this made for a very uncomfortable nights sleep. We are more than happy to pay higher prices to support this beautiful seaside town in its busiest weekend of the year but was not impressed with £200 for one night in what was a very uncomfortable room.