Sea and sand are steps away from this ‘fantastic’, well-located Victorian hotel, standing on the crescent bay of one of Kent’s original resort towns.

Guests enjoy a ‘distant view of sea’ across fields and houses, from this newly built hotel above a town synonymous with oysters.

When Louise Oldfield and Liam Nabb restored their B&B on a Georgian square, they struck a careful balance between the preservation of a 200-year history and a thoroughly 21st-century makeover.

Assertive and stylish, this dark-timber-and-glass, purpose-built restaurant-with-rooms cantilevers over the harbour, the better to soak up views stretching to the Channel.

Two ‘tastefully refurbished’ Regency town houses near the harbour combine into this ‘buzzy, friendly’ pub-with-rooms.