Lesson Three in Understanding the English: not only do we love trains, antiques, animals and eccentric pubs, we go crazy over seaside holidays.

Blackpool if we've got kids, Bournemouth if we're over 60, Butlins if the weather's being English and we want to stay indoors and pretend we're at the seaside.

The sazzy HotelChatter choice of English seaside hotels is the Captain's Club Hotel in the teensy south coast town of Christchurch, Dorset.
]]> femmefatale 2008-03-06T09:05:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/30/142721/82 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/stephanie_inn.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Now that we've had a chance to pour over <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/23/165056/72/hotels/Conde_Nast_Readers_Have_Spoken">Conde Nast's Readers' Choice Awards</a>, we noticed an Oregon hotel that didn't pop up when we wandered through the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Oregon%20Hotel%20Guide">Oregon Hotel Trail</a>. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Stephanie+Inn/local/929"><b>The Stephanie Inn</b></a>, say CNT's readers, is the third best hotel in the country, after the Chicago outposts of the Ritz-Carlton and The Peninsula.<br> <p>So what makes it so special? Good question: CN Traveler doesn't spell out any details. And the survey is just a numerical ranking, leaving us curious as to what makes the Stephanie so praiseworthy. On Tripadvisor, reviewers come to a consensus:<blockquote><p>This Inn is probably great if you can pay $600/night for a view room. It is also great if you pbb 2007-10-30T14:32:21-05:00 45.877181 -123.96155 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/