Le Strange Arms

Just back home from a 2 night stay - late November. Great location just set back from the beach and with good views. Very friendly and helpful staff. Storm Bert was all around us which made the welcoming log fire at the hotel more blissful. I was with a coach party of 42 guests on a DBB basis and we were very well looked. Ps Nice craft centre behind the hotel which is worth a visit.

Really nice hotel. Sort of old fashioned rooms but I see this as a positive as the modern copy and paste rooms offered by the chain hotels remind me of business trips. The rooms are lovely and clean and spacious and amazingly (puts at least) offered a bath, a rarity and luxury in hotels these days. Receptionist was lovely and super helpful. My only slight niggle is the parking, it was ample during our visit and don't suspect getting parked in the free of charge car park will ever be an issue, but the parking warden for the public car park challenges you every time you try and park in the hotel car park, it is never an issue once you provide your proof of booking but feels a little like you are crossing an international border for my liking. This is the only reason I didn't give five stars.

First off, I don't think it's worth a 4* rating. Maybe 3.5* but then again you have to think about where you are. There is a lot of good to be said: I basically love this place. I came here alone just as a way to get some headspace it's ticked every box for that. The room is large and basically furnished but with pretty good stuff. The decor is inoffensive and neutral, no nasty post-war carpets or any of that. The bathroom is pretty swish and for some reason has two sinks. Cute. The bed is THE most comfortable bed I've ever slept in, and my mattress at home cost over a grand. Amazing. I can see the sea from my window (ground floor rooms have a little outside area which do open out on to the car park, which is a slight downer but the upper floors don't have balconies so you pick). It's about two minutes to the beach (with actual sand). And of course Hunstanton is a short walk (albeit not an especially interesting one) away. Down sides: Like everywhere in this neck of the woods it is about 50 years behind the times if not more. There are a fair few Americans about and I would imagine they'd call it "quaint." I think it's outdated in terms of the building itself (not the rooms). For a supposed 4* hotel it doesn't help the national image... There is no a/c. Again, just a sign of being behind the times but in such a huge building I imagine this would be a nightmare to Parking is tight on spaces. They try to control it but there was only one space when I arrived. You have to give your name to a geezer who controls the main beach parking to get in but he's a nice enough bloke. Speaks plainly. If you don't like that you'll find him rude. The bar staff are a bit iffy. Not that they aren't nice people but it's obvious bar duty is not a dedicated role and they don't know how to make cocktails. And finally, and this isn't a criticism of the hotel but just the antiquated nature of English seaside places: You won't find good food anywhere. But what there is, is relatively cheap and cheerful. 11/10 would come again if I had the disposable income to splash £200 a night on a room. I do think it's a bit overpriced. But I've enjoyed myself. Thank you, Strange Arms for a decent stay.