With views over meadows and marshes to the sea, this hotel with award-winning dining bedazzles with its vibrant interiors within the walls of a Victorian farmhouse. Behind the scenes, bedrooms have more of a Hamptons-style coastal cool. Dog-friendly ground-floor rooms in the herb garden have a hot tub while two shepherds' huts have a log-burner, a shower, a terrace with sunken spa bath. A reader was delighted to find the hotel had good facilities for a wheelchair user as well as 'cheerful and helpful staff'. Dine casually in the eating rooms, or more formally in the beautifully decorated conservatory. Chef-patron Eric Snaith's parents bought the hotel back in 1988, so he's had plenty of time to hone his cooking skills (you can sample them further at his fine chippie down the road in Thornham). 'Excellent food' is served in the Conservatory restaurant, with dishes including perhaps salt aged duck with plum and chichory or poached monkfish with seaweed potatoes, bisque and samphire. After breakfast, visit Sandringham, the pretty market villages of Burnham Market and Wells, or go bird watching on the RSPB's nature reserve.