‘Well worth the walk up from the middle of town,’ say visitors to this extended 18th-century town house spectacularly set high above St Peter Port’s harbour.

The Chambers clan has encouraged a family-friendly atmosphere at their white-painted, flower-fronted Georgian hotel for nearing 60 years.

‘The best on the island’, ‘the most spectacular and sumptuous’, this luxurious, family-friendly manor house hotel (Relais & Châteaux) 'just gets better',

Narrow, leafy lanes lead to this 17th-century, pink granite country house, a relatively recent addition to the Seymour Hotels group, a family business approaching its centenary.

Renoir was once drawn to this spot, above Moulin Huet bay, to capture the ever-changing scene in his Guernsey paintings.

Trompe l’oeil flair and views as far as Herm and Sark beguile at this sophisticated hotel (Red Carnation Hotels) above the town.

It might be 550 miles to the north, but a Provençal air breezes through this white-painted Georgian manor house overlooking St Aubin’s Bay.