Blanch House

From the moment of booking to leaving after breakfast our over night stay was effortless. This hotel is very welcoming. Staff are friendly, helpful and cannot be faulted. Our room was comfortable with tea and coffee provided with quaint decor. It has full bar in the reception and a complimentary continental breakfast was lovely. 5 minute walk to the pier and 14 minutes to the station. Would I come back? Definitely x

Excellent hotel with super friendly staff. The room was small but has everything you need, and the design is perfect. The continental breakfast was tasty with a good choice. Highly recommended!

We visited this hotel last year and had a very enjoyable stay. It is very comfortable and the staff are very friendly and efficient. This year an option of a cooked breakfast is available. There are examples of local artists work on the walls complementing the decor. The hotel is handily placed for bus stops, local restaurants and the beach.

Super clean, smart and modern. Breakfast can and everyone who works at the hotel is lovely and very tentative. Great location and super quiet. Got a call a few days before to make sure all our needs before we arrived. Superb service and will be back!

Lovely luxury rooms. Beautifully decorated and fantastic size. Bathroom had both shower and bath. Everything supplied for your stay. Price should include full English breakfast not just a continental. Would stay again

I had such a lovely stay at the Blanch House! The room was very lovely and well-kept. The staff were all friendly and always happy to help with anything I needed. Breakfast was also very tasty! I’ll definitely be coming back if I visit Brighton again!

Really nice hotel. Great host and really good breakfast. Very close to the main street||I could get all the basic amenities and information from the main desk. The host was very friendly and also helped me arrange transport and gave directions. Overall very good experience

Lovely, welcoming boutique hotel. Central for attractions like The Dome and seafront. Full English breakfast was excellent. Hotel staff could not have been more helpful.

I've been here for a few times, but last Saturday, my best friend and I went for dinner. We went straight to our table as we were starving, and had almost all of the place to ourselves. It's not huge (maybe 12 tables?), but the bright, airy decoration makes it seem open and not at all crowded. We were told that the corner table we wanted wasn't available, but our waitress swiftly jumped in and said she'd re-arrange things so we could sit there. Nice start. Looking at the menu, I didn't fancy any of the starters so we both dived straight into the mains. I had sirloin of sussex beef with garlic mushrooms, dauphinoise potatoes and a wine & rosemary sauce (and a side of green beans). It was delicious. I have to say my steak was maybe a little overcooked for me (I like medium rare), but it was so tasty that I didn't complain. Rare for me when it comes to meat. My friend had fried breaded halloumi with sesame seeds, celeriac and truffle purée, baby spinach, garlic wild mushrooms and red pepper & lentil sauce. Goodness me! It was *delicious*, and the chef even made her up a side of dauphinoise potatoes because she loves them so much. Prior to that we devoured a decent-sized home-made roll as well. Plus, we had the house red, which was a weighty merlot totally under-priced for how nice it was at £19 a bottle. Finished off with an espresso each, and we shared the amaretto & amaretti biscuit parfait with griottine cherries plus almond tuille. Best bit of the meal for me. It honestly makes my mouth water just thinking about how good it was. Somehow, we only ended up paying £32 a head for that. Incredible value, especially as it included 12.5% service! Michelle and I have spent more on basic takeaways than that, and this was divine! We finished our wine in the bar, which is small but perfectly formed with some super-knowledgeable barmen with smiles all round. Two shots for £6 later, and a super recommendation for 'the second best bar in town' - and we were on our way. I have stayed here previously, and the experience was just the same. Each room is unique, and perfect for a romantic getaway for a special occasion - or if you've got some cash to spend! As Samantha C. says below, the rooms are pretty pricey. However, for such a dash of luxury with great food and staff thrown it, it's totally worth it.

Championed as the makers of the best Martini and the best bar team in the UK, I felt I had to see Blanch House's award-winning bar for myself. It is hard to feel disappointed. The bar itself is the perfect intimate size and design, all deep reds and black with a vantage point of the bar tenders from every seat. Their friendliness and mixing capabilities are hard to ignore too, making the experience all the more relaxing and entertaining. Now on to the drinks. Well, I'm no Martini expert, but their straight up, made with plymouth gin (or wyborowa vodka, your choice), certainly got me going for the evening, it was delicious - and strong. My personal new favourite though is the Polish Spring Punch: Wyborowa, Chambord, Raspberry purée, fresh lime, Gomme and Champagne. Beautifully presented and although a little more expensive than even a London bar at £8.50, it's worth it just to be there.

We loved it here. Brighton is one of our favourite places to go, so it's great to have a place to stay when you visit. We stayed in the "Alice"-room and it delivered! I felt as if I was in a fairytale, so beautifull. The personel here was so helpfull and friendly, they helped with whatever they could. Breakfast was amazing and they offer almost everything you could wish for when you're in England. Great place to start your day out in Brighton and surroundings. Only 1 thing bothered me and that was the lack of parking space, but that is the same with all the places here in Brighton, so that's not the fault of the hotel. Just a notice as reference for future visitors ;).

This is an absolutely fabulous hotel for those of you with a reasonable disposable income, as rooms are between £100 and £230. Situated in the fashionable Brighton area of Kemptown, the hotel offers an AMAZING cocktail bar (and lessons!), spa treatments and an uber cool restaurant. The cocktails are really unusual but their all fan-flippin-tastic, Kermit's Lily is particularly fab. The venue is unbelievably cool and stylish, each room has an individual theme and they have certainly made the best of every inch of space. They also have a mini fine dining restaurant that is reasonably priced at roughly £15 for a main. Its such an individual hotel and has so much to offer, its an amazing place for special birthday celebration drink or an mildly extravagant weekend away.

We were looked after from the moment we arrived. The rooms were beautifully decorated and so cosy! Breakfast (included) was wonderful and extensive menu to choose from too! Perfect location just by the new pier. Thanks again for a great stay, brilliant value for money.

Tucked away in a quiet street off the sea front is an unassuming building which looks like all the other Regency buildings around it. Open the door to Blanch House however and you suddenly find yourself transported back to an era when style really mattered. No detail has been left untended - not least the cocktail list - which has been created to impress. A wide array of exotic and unusual sounding ingredients have been put together to sublime effect. It's exactly why we're starting the night here - you'll want to remember the night you had Talisker, asparagus spirit, lemon bitters, egg white and lemon juice in the suitably named Aspergers Syndrome cocktail. Or, considering your location, how about a flamboyant Oscar Wilde which includes Hendrick's, Peychaud's bitters, absinthe and champagne among other things?