Hotels in Sandwich

Sandwich's accommodation is as compact and characterful as the town itself, with almost everywhere to stay set within or just outside the medieval walls. At the top of the range, a Grade I listed Lutyens house sits in its own award-winning gardens and a grand Edwardian riverside hotel occupies one of the best positions on the Stour, both offering a level of history and design rarely found in a town this size. Below that, several genuinely old coaching inns and pub hotels, some dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, provide comfortable, unfussy rooms above a proper bar, a style of stay that suits golfers, walkers and weekend visitors who want a good pint downstairs as much as a smart room upstairs.

At the more modest end, family-run bed and breakfasts occupy period houses on quiet streets just back from the centre, offering a warmer, more personal welcome and often better value than the hotels, while a scattering of self-catering houses suit families or small groups wanting a kitchen and garden of their own. Because Sandwich is so small, location rarely varies much between properties: almost everything is within a ten-minute walk of the Guildhall, the quay and the railway station, so the real choice tends to be between the grandeur of a historic hotel, the sociable buzz of a pub with rooms, or the quieter privacy of a B&B or self-catering house a street or two back from the centre. A handful of options a few miles out in the surrounding villages suit visitors who would rather stay in the countryside and drive or cycle in.