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Delicious food great Location: Best view in Aldeburgh

Listed amongst The Independent and The Daily Mail’s top 10 seaside hotels in 2004, The Brudenell Hotel is really rather special. Situated at the southern end of Aldeburgh, close to the Sailing Club.

Unique Quality: The Brudenell’s 42 bedrooms are all furnished to a very high standard and are decorated in a light, airy and relaxing style. Most have glorious views of the sea or the River Alde and its surrounding marshland.

In addition to the restaurant's award of two AA rosettes, The Brudenell has also achieved an AA quality rating of 78%, the highest score of any three-star hotel on the Suffolk coast and was runner up in the Small Hotel category in the 2004 Tourist Board awards.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: Crag Path
• Phone: 01728 452071
• Website: http://www.brudenellhotel.co.uk/
• Related to: Luxury Travel
• Written August 19, 2005

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Church Farm: Caravan Park

Pleasant, friendly site with well laid out pitches. Shower block and laundry room adequate. Tents are not allowed on this site, but awnings and trailer tents are OK. £15 per night with electricity hook-up, £12 without.
There are lovely views over the marshes toward Thorpeness. Unspoilt and natural pebble beach 5 minutes walk.
Some construction work currently in progress alongside the site but not too disruptive.
Walk 10 minutes into Aldeburgh town which is picturesque, lively and interesting. There is a cinema, plenty of bars and restaurants and I recommend the Cross Keys for a meal and the White Hart for good beer and frequent live blues music.
You can buy seafood directly from the local fishermen when the boats come in.
Walk along the beach to Thorpeness and on to Sizewell. If you enjoy wild-life walk along the dunes from Sizewell to Dunwich via Minsmere.
I have been visiting this site for many years and would recommend it to everyone.
This was a comment left by a guest last year 2004 who stayed there.

Unique Quality: Facilities Click for key to Icons
Electric Hookups Showers Toilet Block Laundry

Facilities Nearby
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Units Accepted
Tent Pitches Caravan Pitches Motor Home Pitches No Statics for Hire No Statics on Sale

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: Thorpeness Rd, Aldeburgh
• Phone: 01728 453433
• Website: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=1034
• Related to: Family Travel
• Written March 28, 2005

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Holiday: House in the Clouds

One of England?s famous Follies
One acre of private grounds overlooking Thorpeness mere and the sea. Close to Aldeburgh, Snape malting's and Minsmere. Self catering, spacious accommodation for a true family holiday.


Unique Quality: After popular demand I have put a link on below for some of the Accommodation in the Aldeburgh area INCLUDING The House in the clouds.
Originally intended to provide an adequate storage capacity for a basic water supply for Thorpeness village.

Constructed by Braithwaite Engineering Company of London in 1923, it presented Thorpeness Estates with the difficult task of deciding what could be done with such a hideous structure on the skyline. Glencairne Stuart Ogilvie with F. Forbes Glennie (architect) & H. G Keep (works manager) brilliantly disguised it as a house and from miles around one can see what appears to be a cottage lodged in the trees, 70ft high. This cottage is in fact only the top part of the building which housed the water tank. It had a capacity of 50,000 gallons and was capable of pumping 1800 gallons of water an hour from a well in the re-erected Aldringham Mill with sufficient wind or a petrol engine used as an auxiliary power source in periods of calm. The supporting steel structure was boarded in to provide unique living accommodation below the tank.

The house is very sturdily built although it may seem the opposite, the water boarding providing protection against the elements and retaining the heat. The colouring is both decorative and practical. The many tiny windows providing good light, ventilation and beautiful views. The amount of accommodation is generous, originally having 7 bedrooms and 2 reception rooms. Now there are 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms plus the splendid ‘room at the top’ from which the tank was removed in 1979. This was achieved by unbolting the 4ft x 4ft square sections and lowering them to the ground with the aid of the pulley on the north side of the house. The building has 68 stairs, which may sound daunting but the ingenious staircase provides a small landing in between each floor making it very easy to cope with.

• Opinion of Price: N/A
• Address: Thorpeness
• Phone: Fax:0207 224 3615
• Website: http://www.houseintheclouds.co.uk/
• Written February 27, 2005

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Ocean House: Best B&B

This house is beautifully and simply decorated with period furniture, old rocking
Horses, Turkish rugs and open fireplaces. The two bedrooms - one double and one
Twin - on the first floor both with bay windows overhanging the beach and views
Right up and down Crag Path, have comfortable beds, en suite bath/shower rooms,
Colour televisions and tea and coffee trays. For visiting musicians they have a grand
Piano on the top floor studio which has panoramic views. There is table tennis in the
Cellar and a selection of old bikes which you may borrow to explore the surrounding
Countryside.
Ambiance: Wrap-around, sea views - you are almost on the beach. Phil Brereton, from Zimbabwe, and his wife, Juliet, are easy-going hosts happy to share this special place. The furniture is Victorian, some mahogany, some walnut; the colours are soft; the bed linen the kind you long to have at home. (White cotton crocheted bedspreads come from the market at Victoria Falls.) Here are old things, good taste, books and magazines galore, rugs on wooden floors, a special light through every window, and fresh milk and home-made biscuits on the bedside coffee/tea tray. You can borrow bikes, play table tennis in the cellar, and sail. Perfect.

Rooms and prices: One double with bath; one twin with shower: £70-£75 per room per night, single occupancy £60-£65 per night. Breakfast 8am-9.30am. Dinner by arrangement, from £12.50 to £15.

Unique Quality: In a self-contained part of the house they accommodate four Master Class students
From the Bitten-Pears School of Advanced Musical Studies at Snape, and during
The winter the String Quartet in Residence stays with them for three months. Any
Music-making you may overhear is therefore of the highest standard!
It is occasionally possible to rent this house for self catering, or individual
Bedrooms as budget B&B accommodation.
Its advisable to phone first as they are very popular.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: 25 Crag Path, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5BS
• Phone: 01728 452094
• Website: http://www.oceanhousealdeburgh.co.uk/
• Related to: Romantic Travel and Honeymoons
• Written February 13, 2005

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