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Hit The Beach (Hut) at Hotel Du Vin Brighton

Where: Ship Street, Brighton, United Kingdom, BN1 1AD

As the song goes, we do like to be beside the seaside. What we don’t like is sharing the seaside with the thousands of others who like it too. Especially when everyone’s had the same idea to jump on a train in London and hit up the coast at Brighton, as happens every time the sun comes out.

To make things a little less messy, Hotel du Vin down there is putting its Victorian beach hut up for rent. It’s about two and a half miles from the hotel, on the beach at Hove rather than bang in Brighton (but then, there’s not room for a bottle of sun tan lotion on the beach at Brighton when it’s summer, so that’s a good thing).

It used to be available to guests staying in the hotel suites, but they never used it (those suites are that nice, see) – so this year the hotel has given it a complete refurb and opened it up to the plebs. By which we mean everyone – you don’t even have to be staying there to rent it.

You have to book in advance, obviously, and it’s not cheap – a day’s hire costs from £45 per person. But that £45 does include a food hamper (a picnic basket), wine, bikes and the knowledge that you can retreat from the hoi polloi into your own little bunker at any point. And that, in Brighton, is pretty precious. It also comes stocked with cricket bats, beach balls, badminton racquets, deckchairs and parasols, which can double as umbrellas should the weather turn British.

If you want to make a night of it, HdV itself has (proper) rooms from £170, excluding breakfast.