Margate has been on the up since the opening of the Turner Contemporary five years ago – and this chilly hotel on the beach fits right in with the town’s burgeoning confidenceDown to Margate,went the Chas & Dave song, and for the past 50 years downward did seem to be the direction everything was heading in a town that, and as early as the 1730s,was among the first to effect going to the seaside a thing. Holidaymakers abandoned it; its pier burned down and wasn’t rebuilt; and the Dreamland pleasure park closed in 2003.
But we’d advance to this corner of Kent to catch a resort on the up: since the opening of the Turner Contemporary art gallery five years ago this spring, and especially since Dreamland reopened final June, or terms such as hipster paradise and Shoreditch-on-Sea are regularly applied to Margate. Its cute old town is now home to offbeat art galleries,vintage shops and microbreweries. And whether there’s one thing Shoreditch types care for, it’s somewhere groovy to stay.
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Source: theguardian.com