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Reviews of Esplanade Hotel

3 out of 5
Esplanade Hotel
27-29 Marine Parade East, Clacton-on-Sea, England

Reviews

7.0

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 30 out of 158 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 52 out of 158 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 48 out of 158 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 19 out of 158 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 9 out of 158 reviews" "

7.8/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

7.0/10

Amenities

6.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Roger

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The Esplanade Hotel was great value for money, (Room 32) We would highly recommend it for a comfortable night and a most amazing and enjoyable breakfast. The front desk receptionist (Lilly) was very helpfull.

10/10 Excellent

Luann

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very helpful staff, excellent location, very good enhlish breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

barry

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel is on the Sea Front within walking distance of the Pier but far enough away to avoid the noise..Our room was nice and bright with a lovely sea view to wake up to. The bed was lovely and soft It was nice to have a Fire-stick in the TV with a variety of channels to watch including Netflix and Prime lastly the hotel served a nice full English breakfast to get the day going.Overall exceptional value for money will definitely book again
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

elizabeth

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
All ok
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Samantha

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel. Lovely accomodating staff. Will defo come again. Thankyou.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2021

8/10 Good

Christopher

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Recommended
Lovely stay at this hotel with friendly staff. Warm clean and comfortable stay.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021

6/10 Okay

Julie

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Basic and unkempt '
Very run down ' ' couldnt see sea view clearly out of windows as dirty inside and outside double glazing ' bathroom shower awful ' plug hole was absolutely rank ! ' needs lots bleach ' shower itself was just a trickle no power at all ' not a power shower ' very basic . Bed was fairly comfy ' asked for non smoking room' room had cigarette ash covering window sill ' Breakfast ok ' not asked what bread we wanted or choice of egg ? ' just served white toast and fried eggs ' Ok for one night stop' over ' but wouldnt go again
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Stuart

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Linda

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good choice.
Was a great location, warm and friendly staff, great service, comfortable and welcoming. The building could use a bit of a makeover looks a little worn and tired. Would recommend even so. Thank you.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2021

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Advertised as having restaurant and bar. Restaurant closed three days a week and only fish and chip bar when open. Bar closed for "pipe cleaning" on Monday. Not really a hotel just B&B.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2021

4/10 Poor

David

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No water pressure in shower
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

David

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

4/10 Poor

John

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2021

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wifi didn’t work in the room. Room in general a bit filthy, random abs unpleasant smell in the hallway. Curtains didn’t open properly. Breakfast a bit poor for veggie options but the poached eggs were good.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021

6/10 Okay

Mary

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Short break
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021

4/10 Poor

Shakuntala D

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disappointing
Hotel needs refurbishing. Shower scalding hot. Sand on carpet. No wifi in the bedroom. Even in reception very slow. No phone, we were on the 2nd floor at one end of building. No lift. Definitely not a 3*. Staff polite but not motivated to make a good impression. Very disappointed for a first trip out after lockdown. Plus side, room had an excellent view of the seafront, the pier, the hundreds of wind turbines in the sea. Breakfast was very nice. Condition of Hotel lets it down. Car park for 4 cars at the back of hotel. You have to go out front door into the road and follow it round the next turning right.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2021

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Room with a view
Really good location and prompt service on check-in
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

8/10 Good

Andrew

Travelled with group
Weekend break
Quiet simple hotel with comfortable room overlooking the sea. Poor tv signal and no WiFi in room but a pleasant out-of-season stay at a reasonable price. Lovely breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Short Break
Great location, hotel very clean. Room was a great size. Great breakfast. Friendly staff. Great fish and chips from restaurant attached to hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

John, London

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very good hotel service was great plus excellent breakfast thank you
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

6/10 Okay

Tonya

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

8/10 Good

Sharon

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Saved by Marta
Pretty basic hotel with the worst shower that I've ever experienced. Marta, who served breakfast, was an absolute star and single handedly saved the weekend!
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Richard

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Eileen

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

S.A.M, UK

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Overall ot served it's purpose! Thanks to friendly people!
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

4/10 Poor

alan

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
expect no sleep
Fire alarm set of by Council residents smoking in room at midnight , then at 4.30 am fight and arguments including violence to a child outside my room door again council residents living in the top rooms of hotel. I shall never go back.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Orinta, London

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Is very good location and staff very friendly. Just no fridge on the hot day we don’t have where to put our drinks water
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Ann

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Louise

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2020

10/10 Excellent

NIKOLAI

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We were the first customers after the quarantine and we enjoyed our stay! Pleasant staff, very tasty breakfast and comfortable bed with amazing seaview! The only issue we had - was shower issue where it almost didn’t work, but it didn’t affect our stay experience!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2020

8/10 Good

Terry

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020

6/10 Okay

Pauline

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No fuss hotel
We requested a lower floor room as my husband has a disability, however we were put at the very top of the hotel which was very difficult I did inform them that I had requested a lower room. There were no signs where the carpark was we had to park in another street n walk to the hotel, the staff told us where to go for the carpark but when we got there there was no places left so had to go back and park in another street
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Gillian

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good clean room the only problem they have is tiles on bathroom floor broken and lack of parking
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Roy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

6/10 Okay

Lee

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Staff grezt, walls thin, beeate neighbours noise!
Staff friendly, room big and decent. Spoilt by being woken at 2am.by room next door having domestic. Went on for some time shouting, swearing. Not ideal when i had a 6 year old in my room. Walls are thin and offered no protection...real shame. Told staff and emailed hotel several times but no reply.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

6/10 Okay

Rui

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Did the job.
The room was clean and tidy and was fine for one night.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Aileen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Short stay
Short stay while visiting family. The hotel is a little dated but was clean and the staff welcoming. We had a lovely room overlooking the sea. The bed was comfortable and the bathroom clean. Breakfast was very tasty.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Richard

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Darren

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

ROY

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Good old Clacton
We stayed at the Adelphi......The Hotel is rather old and a little tired looking....... never the less we had a nice couple of days. Good atmosphere...good staff. .....good breakfast ...would stay again At The Adelphi if we ever go to Clacton again.......highly unlikely....unfortunately. Spent many weeks in Clacton in my school years with my grand parents.... Some 60 odd years ago......IT has not changed that much since then.......OK if the sun is shining. The beach is good. The pier needs a complete overhaul....or sink it. My partner (her first visit stated what a dump!... It still gave me some pleasure from my memories. I played the harmonica in talent competition I think I was ten....I won a set of hair brushes......gave them to my Father.......I have them now.....Roy Brown... now 80+
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
In need of a deep clean.
Good position , excellent views. Rather tired hotel in dire need of some money spent refurbishing it. Shower almost unusable due to low water pressure in the room we had. Some Power sockets are located behind furniture which necessates twisting around and leaning down the side to plug in the hairdryer ( had no choice of socket for this as hairdryer lead went through hole in the back of a drawer )Kettle was also situated on these drawers so remember to move it to prevent scalding accidents !Curtains have no linings so if the morning light wakes you take an eye mask you will need it. Everything just had a slightly stale smell and in need of a deep clean. The breakfast was very good and is taken in the adjoining fish and chip restaurant. Fish and chips are also very tasty and piping hot here too. Very small car park to the rear but no access to hotel from here so you must walk with bags along the street , round the corner to the front of hotel which is worth bearing in mind if travelling with small children.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Lisa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Overall enjoyable stay
Had a one night stay here.hotel room was very clean staff were very friendly breakfast was incuded in price and was very nice... down side was that the shower was quite small i am only 5 foots 4 and had a.problem bending in shower to pick up shampoo ect so my 6ft 3 husband had no chance he couldnt even get through the shower door....it also states it has smoking and non smoking rooms this is not the case this is a non smoking hotel throughout .. On the up side very close to the pier and lovely views from the hotel room
View from room 7
View from room 7
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Location, View and Room
Bed and Breakfast Hotel with a great location and view overlooking the sea and the pier. Even a first class fish & chip restaurant attached with lovely modern touches where a good traditional English Breakfast is served in the morning. Although I use for my business trips, as a summer location to bring the family it is great as only across the road to head down to the lovely sandy Clacton-on-Sea to Holland beach, with nice Café on the sea-Front and short walk to amusements and Pier.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Too many stairs to climb had a bad back.inside very basic and dull no atmosphere for a supreme room very basic also,outside fine.no where to park in the car park.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019