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WightShrimper

WightShrimper

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Can anyone suggest some cheap accommodation around Southend?
When my good lady and myself come up from the Isle of Wight for a home match, we are travelling from the early hours until quite late in the evening because of the various connections we have to make (and having to allow for boats running late or being cancelled!). What we would like to do for the Morecambe match in October is to come up for a couple of days so we can have a mooch round seeing how everything will have changed from when I was born in Rochford and later lived in Bournemouth Park Road.
So the question is, any good, CHEAP, B and B's or guest houses that anyone can recommend?
Thanks:thumbsup:
 
Fatso possibly has a spare room? Have you considered this?

He and is wife Li Ta Ho Ming Sue (Sue) woud make you more than welcome plus Sue does a mean Red Curry so I am told.
 
I've stayed in the Gleneagles Hotel a few times and would recommend it - especially if you get a room with a view of the pier.
 
Teesside Shrimper said:
I've stayed in the Gleneagles Hotel a few times and would recommend it - especially if you get a room with a view of the pier.
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Or you could pay a bit extra for a different view and not have to look and a crumbling relic the council has shamefully neglected for all those years !
 
I can highly recommend the Connaught Guest House, 46 Hartington Road, SS1 2HS - 01702 601109, Flat screen TV's, Ensuite, Tea/Coffee, Free WiFi, Just off the front, and i think a double is £40 Ask for Brad and let him know Andy Thorne put you in touch and he will look after you. I stay there myself when in Southend.
 
Camelia Hotel - they are a client of mine and I look after their account I can get you a dirt cheap rate and a top room on the front
 
What's that guest house that Aberdeen Dave used to stay at that was run by a Southend supporter? I'm sure he used to get special rates as he was a Southend fan.
 
WightShrimper said:
Thank you everybody, this is a great help, please keep them coming.
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I strongly recommend the Ilfracombe House Hotel (check out their website). I always try to book there when I come back to Southend for Blues games.

Reasonable rates for two people from about £29 per person for a "compact double" to £40 for a "luxury double" bed and breakfast. Avoid the compact double, it's too small, but the standard doubles are a good size and nicely funished and the luxury doubles are very well worth the extra-massive rooms with large bathrooms and leather couches etc. Wi-Fi, LCD TV's with about 40 cable channels, hairdryers and other bits and bobs come as standard in all rooms.

Breakfast is eat as much as you want, from an extensive breakfast buffet, which runs for 4 hours at the weekend, and is kept topped up with freshly cooked food. The staff are friendly, nothing is too much trouble, the bar's nice and snug and you can even get room service (food and drink) until about 11.00. Bernie, the owner is a keen Blues fan, as is his son who is to be a mascot at the Plymouth home match, next week.

Bernie also has four newly refurbished apartments next door, with seperate kitchen, lounge and two double bedrooms. They are furnished to a very high standard, have the same TV's and Wi-Fi etc as the hotel rooms and breakfast is included in the price, which runs at between £69 and £79 per night, per appartment.

You will not find a better value or friendlier place to stay in Southend.
 
lost in cyber space said:
I strongly recommend the Ilfracombe House Hotel (check out their website). I always try to book there when I come back to Southend for Blues games.

Reasonable rates for two people from about £29 per person for a "compact double" to £40 for a "luxury double" bed and breakfast. Avoid the compact double, it's too small, but the standard doubles are a good size and nicely funished and the luxury doubles are very well worth the extra-massive rooms with large bathrooms and leather couches etc. Wi-Fi, LCD TV's with about 40 cable channels, hairdryers and other bits and bobs come as standard in all rooms.

Breakfast is eat as much as you want, from an extensive breakfast buffet, which runs for 4 hours at the weekend, and is kept topped up with freshly cooked food. The staff are friendly, nothing is too much trouble, the bar's nice and snug and you can even get room service (food and drink) until about 11.00. Bernie, the owner is a keen Blues fan, as is his son who is to be a mascot at the Plymouth home match, next week.

Bernie also has four newly refurbished apartments next door, with seperate kitchen, lounge and two double bedrooms. They are furnished to a very high standard, have the same TV's and Wi-Fi etc as the hotel rooms and breakfast is included in the price, which runs at between £69 and £79 per night, per appartment.

You will not find a better value or friendlier place to stay in Southend.
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Web site suggests higher prices than you quote here....perhaps it's been a while since you stayed. But thanks anyway.
 
Mick said:
Or you could pay a bit extra for a different view and not have to look and a crumbling relic the council has shamefully neglected for all those years !
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Blimey, you're a happy little chap, aren't you.
Whatever the current state of the pier, a view of it and the seafront is still an attraction for a sentimental exile like myself. I know it's become fashionable for the residents of Southend to slag the place off, but there still are many far worse places in this country to live.
 
Teesside Shrimper said:
Blimey, you're a happy little chap, aren't you.
Whatever the current state of the pier, a view of it and the seafront is still an attraction for a sentimental exile like myself. I know it's become fashionable for the residents of Southend to slag the place off, but there still are many far worse places in this country to live.
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Well, a view is about all you'll get at the mo cos it's still closed after being rammed by a barge during the high winds earlier in the week!
 
Apropos of nothing much except pleasure piers, I've come from town with the worlds longest pier to now live in the town that had the country's (worlds?) first pier; Ryde, Isle of Wight. (1813).
 
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