A child and dog-friendly bolthole enfolded within rolling, wild-flower-spangled grassland a ten-minute walk from a beautifully uncrowded beach, 'this is an excellent hotel', writes a trusted reader. Reached by a ‘hilly single-track road’, it is truly in a world of its own, with the perfect blend of adult sophistication and family fun, and everything you need for a holiday break. The bedrooms, all at ground level, are designed to optimise the views of the sea or gardens. They are contemporary, comfortable, uncluttered, with glass doors to a furnished patio. Junior suites have a separate seating area. Nice touches include Molton Brown toiletries, binoculars for dolphin spotting. The path to the beach is through National Trust land, and there is a spa and a lounge with books and board games if the weather is doesn't oblige. The eclectic restaurant menu includes fish and chips, chargrilled steaks and tuna nicoise, a lamb burger in rosemary focaccia, ‘excellent fresh crab and sometimes lobster’, the raspberry Pavlova that so delighted Audrey Hepburn on her stay in 1987. She might not have had breakfast at Tiffany’s, but here she could have had the full English or smoked haddock with a poached egg. (David Ganz)