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Daily Mail
24-04-2025
- Daily Mail
Britain's 20 best seaside hotels, campsites and cottages: Property expert picks their favourite spots to stay right by the beach
The weather is, finally, warming up - and when the skies are blue, there is nowhere more beautiful to be than beside Britain's seaside. Alex Fisher, the editor of Coast magazine, which celebrates destinations and attractions in shoreside locations has picked her favourite self-catering, camping and hotel stays close to beaches in the UK. Classic destinations on the list, published in the Guardian, include Cornwall, Dorset and the Isle of Wight alongside stretches of sand in Northumberland, Cumbria and Argyll. In Southwold, home to Suffolk's most famous pier, Fisher suggests the pastel-blue painted Astondene, a self-catering property that sleeps eight and is described as 'a pebble's throw from the long sand and shingle beach'. A week's stay costs just over £1,000 - around £125pp. Of the Cornish suggestions, there's Anchors Aweigh in Helford Passage, which sits on the banks of the River Helford. The three-bed house is available from around £900 a week and sleeps six people. It's close to the historic 16th century pub The Ferryboat Inn too, which serves up delicious seafood lunches. For younger families, the travel expert plumps for Shoreside Huts in Alnmouth, Northumberland - the property is £270 for a two-night stay based on two adults and two small children staying. The off-grid property has St Oswald's Way coastal path on the doorstep too. North of the border, the Coast editor picks out a contemporary take on a bothie, saying her pick would be Tahuna Bothies in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire. The blonde-wood cabin-style self catering stays were designed by architect Stuart Davidson and puts guests amongst the sand dunes on Newburgh beach - with the chance to star-gaze one of the biggest reasons to stay. Four people can stay from £122 a night in low season. Aberafon Campsite in Gyrn Goch, Caernarfon, makes the cut, says Fisher, because it puts those pitching up betwixt mountains and the sea on the stunning Llŷn peninsula - and pitches only cost £12 for adults and £6 for children - under threes go free. Those looking for a characterful bolt-hole in Northern Ireland, the expert says, should check in at the Ballygally Castle Hotel in County Antrim. The property has doubles from £120 including breakfast. This week, Conde Nast Traveller also highlighted UK hotels that it says should be on the radar of travellers, including a pretty coaching inn in the Peak District. The Cavendish Hotel at Baslow near Bakewell was one of three UK hotels to feature in the Hot List 2025. Rooms at the 28-room property, which is owned by Chatsworth's Devonshire family, start at £193. Coast magazine editor's pick of 20 places to stay in the UK Bournemouth Beach Lodges, Dorset Astondene, Southwold, Suffolk Prince of Wales Terrace, Deal, Kent No. 124, Brighton, East Sussex The Albion, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight St Mark's Bothy, Brownsea Island, Dorset The Wheelhouse B&B, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly The Pierhouse Hotel, Port Appin, Argyll The Waterside Hotel, West Kilbride, Ayrshire Anchors Aweigh, Helford Passage, Cornwall Caban, Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire Manse on the Beach, Cloughey, County Down Penkenna House, Crackington Haven, Cornwall The Barnacle Goose, Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria Shoreside Huts, Alnmouth, Northumberland Tahuna Bothies, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire The Old Point House, Angle, Pembrokeshire Aberafon Campsite, Gyrn Goch, Caernarfon The Cabin, Tenby, Pembrokeshire Ballygally Castle Hotel, County Antrim
Daily Mail
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The best new hotels of the year revealed by Conde Nast Traveller - from as little as £150
Glossy holiday bible Conde Nast Traveller has unveiled its pick of the best new hotels around the world - including some surprisingly low cost options. The brand published the Hot List 2025 after its experts spent a year travelling the globe to find the best new openings - including a Saudi hotel that transformed an abandoned mud-brick village, a pretty coaching inn in the Peak District and an Art Deco abode in the Big Apple. Three British hotels make the cut, including the glitzy Mandarin Oriental in London 's Mayfair - a sister hotel for the upscale chain's Knightsbridge property. The new hotel, a stone's throw from London's tourist centre, features hand-painted de Gournay wallpaper, Technogym work-out equipment and an 82-foot pool. Across the Pond, there's two new openings that have impressed in New York, including the spruced up Upper East Side's The Surrey, which dates back to 1926. Conde Nast Traveller's writer says the Art Deco decor in the Manhattan property is a vision of 'geometric details and muted pastels', with rooms coming in at £773. Across town in SoHo, The Manner is also big on swish retro, with guests checking in described as being everyone 'from 20-somethings attending Fashion Week parties to chic married couples reading by the fire, everyone here is either good-looking, interesting, or both.' A stay costs a cool £618 per night. There's been plenty of new openings in classic Med destinations in recent years and Conde Nast Traveller singles out its new favourites in the list, including a new One&Only property on the lesser known Greek island of Kea in the Cyclades. Rooms start from £1,415 but guests are afforded unbridled five-star luxury, with perks including Mediterranean-Asian fusion cuisine, the hotel brand's largest spa to date and even the chance to charter a 1967 yacht for a day. Prague continues to be one of Europe's most popular city breaks - and trendy hotel brand W has opened up in an Art Nouveau gem in the city Accommodation at One&Only Kea Island puts privacy first too; Conde Nast Traveller says: 'Tranquility is key; rooms are more like individual villas, and have private patios, secluded balconies, and 24- and 29.5-foot infinity pools'. Several properties on the uber stylish list are under £200, including The Standard in Singapore, where rooms start from £156. A new Austrian bolt-hole from trendy hotel brand The Hoxton group marries style with affordability. The Hoxton Vienna has rooms from £161 a night in the heart of the popular city break destination, with highlights including a Cuban-inspired rooftop bar and terrazzo-floored lobby, says Conde Nast. Another mountainous destination features albeit it with a home-grown twist. Welsh-born hotelier Grant Maunder is behind The Brecon, which sits not in Wales but in the Swiss Alpine village of Adelboden. The adults-only hotel is fully inclusive, with rooms starting at £650. Grant describes his latest opening as 'Swelsh' - a Swiss Welsh hybrid - although Dutch-based designers Nicemakers are behind the hotel's look. Owners of Le Dune Piscinas in Sardinia, Italy, spent three years refurbishing the island hideaway Two properties in Saudi also feature, as the Middle Eastern destination continues to try and woo Western tourists to the ultra conservative country with the promise of luxury. Dar Tantora The House Hotel has transformed 30 'abandoned mud-brick dars' into a premium stay in the ancient town of AlUla. Rooms at the red-hued hotel start from £462. Also in Saudi is a new Ritz-Carlton venture, which sits pretty on the Ummahat Islands, which have been dubbed the 'new Maldives'. Virgin Atlantic gave the destination a boost after announcing new flights to Riyadh, with Sir Richard Branson jetting into the Saudi capital this week on his Virgin Airbus A330 to promote the new route.
