What do you anticipate for a room costing £310?
Maybe a completely stocked mini-bar, particularly when the bar and restaurant is down the street, some 100 yards away; maybe a correct desk or not less than someplace to face a laptop computer; maybe a dimmer change within the toilet so you are not dazzled in the midst of the night time; maybe a light-weight within the communal downstairs sitting room shiny sufficient to learn; a fireplace.
And peace and quiet as a substitute of canned music.
Good, however definitely worth the cash? The Vine Home is the fashionable – however costly – addition to The Hoste in Norfolk
No, we had not one of the above. However then, that is dear Burnham Market, North Norfolk’s Georgian masterpiece that will get ritualistically defaced at weekends when the Vary Rover brigade roars into city with Jack Wills-clad youngsters within the again and golden retrievers within the boot.
The Vine Home is an annexe to The Hoste, which has been beneath new administration for the previous couple of years. It is a a lot quieter various to the primary pub, which has morphed right into a 62-room operation, buoyed by numerous related companies: vacation cottages; a transformed railway station with seven additional rooms; and a magnificence spa.
No marvel there are three individuals manning reception at weekends.
The perfect a part of this increasing empire is the unique previous bar on the entrance of the Hoste, and we love the primary eating room subsequent to it, with powder blue panelled partitions and spectacular works by native artists. There isn’t any faulting the meals and repair both – so long as you are able to pay £50 a head for a few programs and one bottle of wine.
We wake within the morning to find the automobile has a flat. Reception does an excellent job in organising down a restore whereas we tuck into the breakfast buffet within the Backyard Room.
A few of us keep in mind the Hoste Arms when it was only a easy pub. Mustn’t hinder progress and all that, however we won’t assist trying again with a dollop of nostalgia.
