Hotel wedding venues in Sussex
Gravetye Manor - Charming British Escape
East Grinstead
‘We have become addicted to this place,’ write trusted readers, following a return visit to this beautiful Elizabethan manor house (Relais & Châteaux).
The Gallivant - Midweek Spa Escape
Camber
There is much to like at Harry Cragoe’s roadside restaurant-with-rooms, which takes its inspiration from California beach motels, and adds a dash of Scandinavia.
drakes
Brighton
‘Exquisite’ was the verdict of a regular reader on a belated return visit to this ultra-chic hotel on the resort’s Regency seafront.
The Millstream
Bosham
‘The enthusiastic welcome immediately made us feel at home again.’
Park House, Hotel & Spa
Midhurst
‘We much enjoyed our stay,’ writes a reader this year, of this Edwardian country house hotel in ‘grounds of a sporty nature’.
The Grand Hotel
Eastbourne
Once a month a string quartet serenades afternoon tea at this Victorian seafront hotel nicknamed ‘The White Palace’.
The Old Rectory
Hastings
On the edge of the Old Town, designer Lionel Copley has created a beautiful B&B in this Grade II listed Georgian-cum-Victorian rectory.
From £90 per night
Deans Place
Alfriston
On the outskirts of a picturesque Sussex village stands this ‘handsome, extensively enlarged’ old farmhouse, run by ‘friendly, attentive staff’.
Wartling Place
Wartling
The ‘beautiful gardens’, ‘wonderful atmosphere’ and ‘pleasant rooms’ were highlighted by guests this year, who praised this ‘delightful’ B&B.
Crouchers
Chichester
With Chichester in one direction, the pristine sands of West Wittering in the other, guests at Lloyd van Rooyen and Gavin Wilson’s smart, contemporary hotel have the best of both worlds.
The George in Rye
Rye
Outwardly a Georgian coaching inn on the cobbled main street of the medieval town, Alex Clarke’s ‘absolutely lovely’ hotel is 16th-century in its bones – the timbers from an Elizabethan galley.
Chichester Harbour Hotel
Chichester
Priory Park, where WG Grace once wore whites, is a cricket ball throw away from this Georgian hotel inside the city’s Roman walls.
Langshott Manor
Gatwick
Modern flourishes blend with history and tradition at this 'wonderfully atmospheric' old builfing.
The Hope Anchor
Rye
The shipbuilders, boozy sailors and notorious Tenterden smuggling gang that once formed the clientele of this 18th-century watering hole, have been replaced by peace-seeking travellers bent on finding a decent meal.
Green Oak Barn
Berwick
Connoisseurs and amateurs of every vintage find modern accommodation in Christine and Colin Munday’s impressively reconstructed traditional Sussex barn, part of a complex including a restaurant and a wine shop.
The Blacksmiths
Donnington
Steeped with Scandinavian cool, Mariella and William Fleming’s renovated village pub-with-rooms is a stylishly relaxed spot near the Chichester canal towpath.
Hotels not in the Guide that you may want to consider
Hotel wedding venues in Sussex
Horsted Place
Lewes
In beautiful gardens, this gracious country house hotel is in a Gothic Revivalist building, 6.5 NE of Lewes. There are antiques and comfy seating in elegant fire-warmed public rooms; bedrooms have garden views and modern bathrooms.
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