Hailsham Grange

If you're planning a vacation, you may want to consider choosing a guest house instead of a hotel for your trip. While hotels generally offer everything you need while you're away from home, they also have a temporary, commercial feel, missing the warmth of home. A guest house, or bed and breakfast, is anything but temporary or commercial and can be a unique experience in itself.

Guest houses are homes away from home. When you're ready to choose a great guest house, you'll need to do some research. Look for a special place with all the amenities you seek. Most guest houses have websites with details and pictures, as well as phone numbers and direct email addresses. Once you've narrowed your choices down to a handful, you'll want to compare prices and amenities as well as surrounding attractions if you plan to explore.

Unlike most hotels, many guest houses, like Hailsham Grange, East Sussex, have a rich history and beautiful gardens to explore. The 18th century vicarage is centred in a market town, surrounded by castles, marshes, and other places of interest. With such beautiful accommodation, it's hard to leave your home away from home to explore, but just a short drive away you'll also find theatres and an opera house.

Remember, before you embark on your trip, place a call to the proprietor to get a list of your chosen room's amenities as well as what meals will be provided. Some bedrooms will have enauite bathrooms or you may have to make a trip down the hall and share your bathroom. Also, there may be different sized beds in each room; some rooms may have two beds or a couch.

The proprietor and family generally care for each guest as if they were family, serving breakfast and taking tea with their guests. The house is a real home, and guests stay in tastefull decorated bedrooms. Hailsham Grange guest house in East Sussex offers accommodation in the traditional English style, and their gardens are so beautiful that they have been featured in several books and magazines. Staying at a quality guest house is a much more personal experience with a warmer atmosphere and much more adventurous than any mass-produced hotel or motel.