complimentary full english breakfast is served in the airy, garden-view dining room, while evening meals are also available during high season. other public areas include a bar with a pool table, plus a cosy guest lounge with access to a walled garden. some have en suite facilities, while others have shared bathrooms. the bright rooms have simple furnishings and decor, and come with tvs, and tea and coffeemaking equipment. . set in a georgian townhouse dating from 1800, this family-run, budget guesthouse is a 2-minute walk from dickens house museum, a 3-minute walk from viking bay beach and an 8-minute walk from broadstairs train station Heathrow Airport 1 hr 58
The Royal Albion Hotel (2 min) Pegwell Bay (15 min.) picturesque bay offering a nature reserve the ruins of a hoverport & a replica scandinavian boat. Stone Bay (15 min.) beach Deal Castle (31 min.) 16th-century artillery castle with huge circular bastions for cannons linked by network of passages. Ramsgate Tunnels (10 min.) guided tours of the subterranean tunnel system used to shelter 60 000 people during wwii air raids. Turner Contemporary (11 min.) dramatic spaces displaying art by jmw turner and contemporary artists in eye-catching gallery. Botany Bay (10 min.) public beach with views of cliffs and chalk stacks plus fossil hunting rock pools and nearby cafe. Shell Grotto (9 min.) ornate unexplained network of shell-lined passages and a mosaic chamber with shell shop and cafe. Joss Bay (6 min.) 200-meter sandy cove featuring a surf school beach loungers a cafe & white chalk cliffs. Viking Bay (6 min.) charles dickens used to holiday on this small sandy bay with a promenade & cabins. Margate Beach (11 min.) beach Pierremont Hall (4 min) Main Sands (11 min.) beach Walmer Castle And Gardens (34 min.) english heritage tudor castle often visited by the queen and queen mother plus gardens and tearoom Baptist Church (2 min) Railway Station (6 min) Powell-Cotton Museum (18 min.) 15th-century estate with museum of victorian natural history exhibits and regency house and gardens. |