My wife bought me a Christmas present of an overnight stay with breakfast. With one thing and another we had to cancel and rebook three times (Covid, family stuff) and eventually got to stay this Sunday night. We arrived way before checking in time as the weather was so nice and reception said our room wasn’t yet ready but we had been upgraded; always nice to hear! We said we’d wait around the pool (there’s a changing room) having just settled on our loungers the receptionist came over and said she’d double upgraded us and the room was now ready. From a cosy double we now had a large double with views. A good start! With the pool virtually to ourselves we swam and sunbathed. Later in the afternoon we fancied a light lunch so my wife had a cream tea ( proper clotted cream ) and I had whitebait with homemade tartare sauce, all very good. We were seated on the croquet lawn, pretty idyllic. We pottered into Alfriston in the evening and decided on The George Inn for dinner. Baked Camembert to share to start and their homemade burgers to follow. The ingredients were of such good quality, lovely meal in a genuinely charming olde pub. A nice stroll across the Tye, past St Andrew’s (where we were married) and we were back at Deans Place. A great nights sleep on the king sized bed and it was...My wife bought me a Christmas present of an overnight stay with breakfast. With one thing and another we had to cancel and rebook three times (Covid, family stuff) and eventually got to stay this Sunday night. We arrived way before checking in time as the weather was so nice and reception said our room wasn’t yet ready but we had been upgraded; always nice to hear! We said we’d wait around the pool (there’s a changing room) having just settled on our loungers the receptionist came over and said she’d double upgraded us and the room was now ready. From a cosy double we now had a large double with views. A good start! With the pool virtually to ourselves we swam and sunbathed. Later in the afternoon we fancied a light lunch so my wife had a cream tea ( proper clotted cream ) and I had whitebait with homemade tartare sauce, all very good. We were seated on the croquet lawn, pretty idyllic.

We pottered into Alfriston in the evening and decided on The George Inn for dinner. Baked Camembert to share to start and their homemade burgers to follow. The ingredients were of such good quality, lovely meal in a genuinely charming olde pub.

A nice stroll across the Tye, past St Andrew’s (where we were married) and we were back at Deans Place. A great nights sleep on the king sized bed and it was time for breakfastMore