Monday 8 August 2011

My Travel Reviews, cosying up at the Norfolk coast

Vine House and The Hoste Arms
A boutique Hotel in Burnham Market on the Norfolk coast

The Vine House boutique hotel is a very handsome Georgian house slap bang on the green in the middle of Burnham Market, a stone’s throw away from the north Norfolk coastline.

Having grabbed the keys from the Vine’s more jollier and gregarious sister establishment, The Hoste Arms, you are left to your own devices in the elegant and comforting solitude where there are just 7 rooms, overlooking a pretty flint-walled garden. A perfect interruption to the silence comes in the form of a butler serving aperitifs which you might like to drink in the cosy but grandiose drawing room or in your jumbo free-standing bath taking centre stage in your ensuite, room enough for two.

If hunger takes you, dinner is served at the Hoste across the green, offerings include local oysters and mussels, 21 day aged new york rib steak and herb encrusted rack of lamb. The Hoste Beauty and Wellness Spa is gleamingly new having opened in Jan 2011 and it shows. The girls in their crisp whites are perky and raring to pamper you.

If you can tear yourself away from your grown-up den, the golden sands of Holkham beach hiding behind a cloak of pine trees are only 10 minutes away. A blustery shell-seeking stroll along its 40 mile stretch should blow the cobwebs away and if the elements get too much, you can dive into the long dunes for shelter.

Vine House

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