The Priory Bay Hotel is an independent 3 * Country House Hotel located by the sea on the Isle of Wight. I stayed for two nights midweek, whilst on business. It has a website (www.priorybay.co.uk) which has lots of details about the hotel (incidentally – the website refers to the Country Hotel by the Sea - they borrowed the idea from me not vice versa…), including tariff although I discovered that when I telephoned the hotel to book that I was offered a principal room for the same price as a standard. It is a small hotel, 7 Principal Rooms, 9 Standard Rooms and two family suites. The Priory Hotel is one of those establishments that would, if bigger, be 5*. As a small ...  Read the complete review

Do you like New Covent Garden soup? Then you will probably like this hotel too. The New Covent Garden soup company were the first to offer us fresh and original flavours of soups in cartons such as the now commonplace but then very original carrot and coriander. The innovative founders of that successful company are now applying equally interesting ideas to the Priory Bay Hotel, located on the N.E coast of the Isle of Wight at Seaview. One such example is the bath in the middle of one of the principal bedrooms. There is one big difference between the soup and the hotel. I think they are trying to keep the hotel a secret. But I am going to tell. A couple ...  Read the complete review