This is one of my favourite hotels anywhere. The staff are friendly and effecient, the rooms comfortable and clean/ The restaurant is very nice and spacious and, alhough there were reduced menus there was a different choice each day. There was a choice of starters, always including a different soup (excellent) and a choice of mains, always including a choice of two types of meat, always a fish dish and always a vegie dish. Overall I though the food was very good and well presented and the service efficient and polite. I have been to this hotel many times. I like it because it is in a very good location, right alongside the sea, not far into the town and the pier and there is a large carpark. To me, this hotel has a aura of faded grandeur which I think is charming. I notice there is an application pending for 'improvements' I do hope that the charm of the hotel will be lost if the application goes through.