Silverthorn
Hotel
Tel:
(01202) 766204
International: +44 1202 766204
Mobile:
07801 493594
Email address: Silverthorn-hotel@tesco.net
The Silverthorn Hotel is a small B&B Hotel with
6 rooms, all of which have en-suite facilities. The hotel is in a quiet road
and is conveniently situated for the shopping area of Westbourne and the sandy
Blue Flag beach at Alum Chine.
The owners, Brenda and
Steve King, offer a friendly welcome and aim to make your stay at Silverthorn
one that you will enjoy.
PRICES
Prices range
seasonally from £20 to £29 per night B&B. Children from 7 to 12 years are
half-price (under-7s by prior arrangement). Single occupancy is available at a
supplement. There are reductions for a 7-night stay. Off-street parking is
available. Credit cards are accepted. We are unable to accommodate family pets.
The hotel is non-smoking throughout. The hotel is a member of BAHA.
BEDROOMS
There are 6 bedrooms, 3 of
which can be arranged as a family suite. Each bedroom is en-suite, with a
shower, providing accommodation for singles, twins or doubles. The rooms are
tastefully decorated and are equipped to a high standard with full central
heating, colour television, hair dryer, information folder, complimentary
toiletries, radio alarm, tea & coffee making facilities. Rooms are
available from 1 p.m. on the day of arrival, and should be vacated by 10 a.m.
on the day of departure.
PUBLIC ROOMS
The attractive entrance
hall of the Silverthorn Hotel
Your Continental or full English
breakfast is taken in the dining room (pictured right).
Breakfast is served from
8.30 to 9.00 a.m.
LOCATION
The hotel is easily
reached from the Wessex Way (A338). For fuller details see below. 10 minutes walk to the North is the excellent
shopping centre of Westbourne, which as an interesting and extensive range of
shops and restaurants.
Complimentary collection
from the train and coach stations can be made, by prior arrangement.
10 minutes walk to the
South through the attractive pine-fringed Alum Chine is the award winning Alum
Chine beach. This offers a broad sandy beach, a children’s play area, paddling
pool, tropical gardens & a café/restaurant.
Alum Chine beach is itself
then only a 10-minute walk along the Prom to Bournemouth’s main beach and Pier.
If you do not want to walk, there are ample bus services from the end of
Herbert Road and a land train runs from Alum Chine to the Pier
BOURNEMOUTH & SURROUNDINGS
Bournemouth has a wide range of attractions: the 7 miles of sandy
beaches; Bournemouth International Centre, the Pavilion and the Pier all have
shows and concerts; the Oceanarium; the iMax cinema; good shopping with 3 major department stores;
the Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum; 2 cinemas; Hengistbury Head; Compton
Acres (Gardens of the World). Bournemouth has a vibrant nightlife with many
bars and clubs, as well as restaurants. Sports facilities include golf, 2 major
leisure centres (as well as a swimming pool at the BIC), and bowling. From the
Pier you can take a range of boat trips, as far as Swanage
to the West, and the Isle of Wight to the East. A wide range of coach trips is
advertised at the Pier. In the peak season, there are fireworks every Friday
night from the Pier.
Poole
is adjacent to Bournemouth to the West. Among other attractions, it has the
historic old Quay area and Poole Pottery. From Poole you can take boat trips to
Brownsea Island (NT).
Christchurch is just to the East of Bournemouth. There is an
interesting harbour, the historic Priory and Norman remains, and access to Mudeford Quay and Hengistbury Head.
The Hotel is an ideal base
to explore the New Forest. Ringwood
is only 30 minutes and Lyndurst (the capital of the
New Forest) and an attractive town in its own right is only 40 minutes away.
Slightly further afield.
The Silverthorn Hotel is
ideally situated as a base to explore the beautiful countryside and major
tourist attractions of Hampshire and Dorset. Leaflets are available on many of
these, which include:
Attractions: Monkey World,
the Tank Museum, Paultons Park, Beaulieu, Bucklers
Hard, Corfe Castle, Alice in Wonderland amusement
park, Abbotsbury Swannery
& Gardens.
Towns and villages:
Wareham, Wimborne Minster, Lymington,
Swanage, Lyndhurst, Dorchester, Blandford,
as well as many other interesting and picturesque villages.
Countryside: the Jurassic
Coast that runs from Poole right down to Exeter, including the fine walking
along the Dorset Coast Path; the Isle of Purbeck, and
the Dorset countryside immortalised by Thomas Hardy.
Trips to France are
available from Poole.
From London area
From
Birmingham and the Midlands
Join
the M40 and travel south to the M25. Turn right (anti-clockwise) on to the M25,
signposted to Heathrow and Gatwick). Continue round on the M25 until you get to
the M3. Turn right (west) onto the M3, signposted Southampton. Then as above.
From Manchester and the North-West
Take
the M6 south and join the M40. Then as above.
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