‘Great to cross over the road to an incredible beach where you can stroll for miles,’ writes a reader who spent ‘a great weekend’ at Harry Cragoe’s restaurant-with-rooms. Lying between Rye Golf Club and Camber village, with high dunes to the fore, it draws inspiration from a Californian beach motel, with casual seaside-chic style. Some bedrooms have a decked patio; 12 open on to the coastal garden. Snug cabin-style rooms, lined with reclaimed pine and oak, have a slate-clad wet room, espresso machine and fresh milk. The newest garden rooms have white beamed ceilings, oak floors, rugs made from recycled ocean plastic. There is a sitting room with open fire, a snug, library and bar. In the light-filled dining room, menus are sourced from local producers, fishermen and foragers, for such dishes as Romney salt marsh lamb; Dungeness skate wing, three-cornered leek risotto, cauliflower. ‘The staff were nice; good restaurant, and very good fish.’ An ’excellent breakfast’ brings local apple and freshly squeezed orange juice, ‘fab home-made granola’, home-cured bacon, own-recipe sausages, free-range eggs – maybe a Bloody Mary from the recovery station. (Danielle Hommel)