‘One of the nicest locations we’ve stayed at.’ Trusted readers enjoyed a night’s stay at Andy and Gayle Shearer’s boutique hotel on the seafront, with ‘panoramic views’ of sea and the Palace Pier. A signature room was ‘sun-drenched and stylishly designed, with emperor-size bed, a freestanding bath in the bay window’; in the wet room a good power shower. Bedrooms, some city-facing, range from snug to ‘beautifully spacious’. All have cafetière coffee, fresh milk on request, waffle robes, complimentary slippers, White Company toiletries. The ground-floor, sea-facing cocktail bar ‘felt oddly poky’ for a space with such potential, but the restaurant on the lower ground floor (currently closed; reopening at the end of August), proved ‘a very pleasant place’ with ‘comfortable furnishings, smart, minimalist design, ambience and acoustics just right’. (Anna Brewer, and others)