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Buckets & Spades at the Captain's Club in Christchurch

Where: Ferry Lane, Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom, BH23 1HU

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.

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What Makes Oregon's Stephanie Inn So Great?

Where: 2740 South Pacific [map], Cannon Beach, OR, United States, 97110

Now that we've had a chance to pour over Conde Nast's Readers' Choice Awards, we noticed an Oregon hotel that didn't pop up when we wandered through the Oregon Hotel Trail. The Stephanie Inn, say CNT's readers, is the third best hotel in the country, after the Chicago outposts of the Ritz-Carlton and The Peninsula.

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:

This Inn is probably great if you can pay $600/night for a view room. It is also great if you like a lot of pretension. You will see more people here in slacks than in beach clothes and we were definitely the youngest people there.

The Stephanie certainly has a great view of Haystack Rock, but aside from that, we're just not seeing the appeal. Also, how can a hotel not have online reservations??

[Photo: TripAdvisor]

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