Most of the town's 4 and 5 star hotels are, unsurprisingly, located on the seafront and generally to the more rural-looking and higher Western end of the seafront. These include The Hydro, once featured in a TV Agatha Christie adaptation, andThe Grand Hotel - which is a classical five star hotel, yet run in a friendly atmosphere and the da Vinci Hotel & Art Gallery which claims to be the UK's first art hotel.
For those on more modest budgets, there are plenty of family-run, welcoming small hotels such as The Atlanta Guest House located on the seafront close to the pier, the Devonshire Park Hotel and the New Wilmington Hotel (http://www.new-wilmington...) near the main theatres, or "bed and breakfast" establishments such as The Sea Breeze Guest House (http://www.seabreezeguest...), plus self-catering flatlets and campsites on the edge of town. The town's Youth Hostel is in a very picturesque spot on top of the Downs going out of town westwards, near one of the golf links.
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