Where to stay in Harwich?

[MoodySabre]

We are having a tour of Harwich VTS next Thursday (there may be a couple of places left) - as I also need to be that way on Friday (Jaywick actually) I thought that we would stay overnight, chill out, have a nice meal.

T'internet comes up with The Pier, The Continental and Samuel Pepys all in Harwich that look half decent. Nice rather than cheap please. Any ideas?

 

[Leighb]

We are having a tour of Harwich VTS next Thursday (there may be a couple of places left) - as I also need to be that way on Friday (Jaywick actually) I thought that we would stay overnight, chill out, have a nice meal.

T'internet comes up with The Pier, The Continental and Samuel Pepys all in Harwich that look half decent. Nice rather than cheap please. Any ideas?

I have not stayed there, but the Pier Hotel has a nice restaurant upstairs, and very good Fish & Chips downstairs, I don't know the others.

VTS well worth a visit, our club went there a couple of years ago, very informative and interesting.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Spend many a good evening in the Samuel Pepys.

Food and drink good value with nice ambience and stuff.

Always seems to be loads of women there.

Not stayed the night.. Probably preferable to being bobbed about in the inner harbour though.

 

[Wunja]

You will probably find the hotels in Ipswich are a bit closer.

 

[MoodySabre]

Always seems to be loads of women there.

My wife will be there too

 

[shmoo]

You will probably find the hotels in Ipswich are a bit closer.

Closer to Harwich VTS? I don't think so. Mind you, the hotels in Ipswich might be nicer, but Ipswich is a long way from Harwich by road - prob best part of 30 miles.

Jaywick: now there is an interesting place...

 

[MoodySabre]

Jaywick: now there is an interesting place...

I am trustee of a charity based at the community centre in the middle of the Brooklands estate - the word 'interesting' must be used in the context of a Chinese curse

 

[shmoo]

I am trustee of a charity based at the community centre in the middle of the Brooklands estate - the word 'interesting' must be used in the context of a Chinese curse

I know this is slightly heretical but I think if a developer bought the whole of the beach hut village, put in a decent infrastructure and did up the huts to modern standards, while keeping the quirky individuality, there is a possibility of creating a kind of trendy, artsy settlement with huts being used for second homes, day-beach huts and even for retirement.

I actually looked at buying one a bit ago, but bottled it!

 

[Wunja]

Closer to Harwich VTS? I don't think so. Mind you, the hotels in Ipswich might be nicer, but Ipswich is a long way from Harwich by road - prob best part of 30 miles.

That was in response to my recent discovery that RHYC wasn't in or even near Harwich.

 

[rudolph_hart]

Another vote for the Pier.

Anything Milsom does is just superb.

No connection, just a happy customer for 30 years.

http://www.milsomhotels.com/thepier/default.aspx

 

[MoodySabre]

I know this is slightly heretical but I think if a developer bought the whole of the beach hut village, put in a decent infrastructure and did up the huts to modern standards, while keeping the quirky individuality, there is a possibility of creating a kind of trendy, artsy settlement with huts being used for second homes, day-beach huts and even for retirement.

A better class of ghetto

The beach is very nice but the whole area is so run down it's almost scary. Tendring is the second poorest area in Essex but the Brooklands Estate must take the prize for the most dilapidated.

 

[Simon_and_Tanja]

Fascinatingly off subject but ...

Tendring is the second poorest area in Essex...

Poorest measured how so?
Is there a league table of areas/districts in Essex?
Think I could take a guess as to who beats Tendring to the bottom of the table ... although might not be included in Essex if its Local Authority based!?

Feel a whole new series of "Where is it"s coming along, with sinister brooding overtones ...

 

[MoodySabre]

Poorest measured how so?
Is there a league table of areas/districts in Essex?

Index of Multiple Deprivation

 

[shmoo]

Poorest measured how so?
Is there a league table of areas/districts in Essex?...

Simon
If you had been to Jaywick you would not need to ask.

MoodyS
Whoever bought it would be confident of buying at the bottom of the market. It could be a kind of Sandbanks for the East Coast with development and investment...

 

[MoodySabre]

Shmoo

I can see it on the posters:

"Come to Jaywick - Essex's answer to Sandbanks"

We'd never live it down

 

[sailorman]

Spend many a good evening in the Samuel Pepys.

Food and drink good value with nice ambience and stuff.

Always seems to be loads of women there.

Not stayed the night.. Probably preferable to being bobbed about in the inner harbour though.

Second that very good food as well

 

[MoodySabre]

We stayed at The Pier - superb room on the front, lovely food. A very stylish and relaxing place. It ain't cheap but we didn't want cheap.

Looking over the harbour in the sunshine this morning made me really look forward to bobbing about there again. A yacht came in by the pier about 1030 yesterday evening (OK 2230) and went round in circles a couple of times and then headed for Shotley - good call given the swell.