The Atlantic Hotel

Ocean views are on show through the floor-to-ceiling windows from some of the rooms at this hotel, on a headland above St Ouen’s Bay. Designed to recall 1930s marine architecture, it has holiday fun and leisure baked into its DNA. Balconied bedrooms in shades of sea, surf and sand have blond wood furniture. Interconnecting rooms suit families while garden studios have a terrace with access to the landscaped grounds and pool. A reader’s executive suite was ‘lovely and quiet overnight, and while the ground-floor views may not match those from the first floor, everything was far superior in quality and comfort’. In the Ocean restaurant, you can choose the four-course ‘Celebration’ tasting menu, the daily three-course market menu, or dine à la carte on dishes such as steamed lemon sole paupiette, lobster tortellini, cucumber ‘tagliatelle’, samphire, lobster bisque. Cheaper and lighter, the house menu can be ordered anywhere in the hotel or alfresco. Best of all, perhaps, is the gourmet picnic you can order before going off for a day’s surfing. Wildlife spotters will thrill to explore La Mielle de Morville nature reserve.