The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton

Old Ship Hotel is Really Very OLD!

Advantages: Service at breakfast and breakfast itself
Disadvantages: shabby rooms, noisy doors, no sound-proofing

As part of a hen weekend package we were upgraded to the apparently 4 star Old Ship Hotel in Brighton which is Brighton's oldest hotel. I hadn't heard anything about it prior to hearing we would be staying here but having asked a few friends who'd visited Brighton quite often I didn't hear anything positive - those who had stayed there said it was pretty shabby and those who hadn't stayed said it looked pretty shabby just from the outside. Not a good start but as if was part of the hen weekend package and because we'd been upgraded for free from a 3 star hotel to the Old Ship Hotel I had to assume it couldn't be all bad - maybe it had been refurbished since my friends had seen it/stayed there. There are apparently 50 car parking spaces for use by hotel guests which you have to pay about £15 a day and £5 overnight to use these. There ...

anonymili 18.08.2008 · Read full review
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An enjoyable, if fleeting, visit to the Old Ship!

Advantages: Absolutely outstanding staff, and a comfortable hotel.
Disadvantages: Always strikes me as a little jaded from the outside.

Pardon the somewhat feeble pun in the title, but we've just returned from another trip to Brighton and although we spent two nights at the Hilton Metropole, where I always feel pampered (and earn valuable Hilton Hhonors points), we decided to precede this with a quick one-night stay at the Old Ship Hotel in Brighton which, apparently dating back from 1559 in parts, claims to be the oldest hotel in town. There were several reasons for choosing to stay at the Old Ship. Price was certainly a consideration, I admit, and I'd managed to book a room through Laterooms for just ?69 per night, per room, including breakfast. Not an unreasonable price, by any stretch of the imagination, for an hotel with an official 4-star rating. Also, I did it simply because it's there! I've walked past this hotel on its enviable, and extremely ...

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The Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton

Advantages: great location, cheap, nice rooms, excellent food
Disadvantages: no parking, quite dated

Introduction to the hotel: The Royal Albion Hotel was built in 1826 and is situated in a fantastic location opposite Brighton pier. It is a three star hotel and has 186 guest rooms offering views of Brighton beach or the town centre. My experience of the hotel: I spent one night in the hotel in January of this year and for a three star hotel I was quite impressed. I and my girlfriend booked a double room for £55 and it was a spacious room with a four poster bed, couch, satellite television, fridge, tea and coffee making facilities and a lovely modern bathroom with a Jacuzzi bath. When we checked in the hotel staff asked us if we would like to upgrade to a room with a Jacuzzi batch for £10, we said no, but were a bit intrigued to find one anyways - they had obviously given our room away and were trying to get the extra £10 out ...

beanie8844 09.03.2008 (11.03.2008) · Read full review
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