The hotel was on the sea front on the cliff top above the towns main beach.

The site is now used partly as a car park and a small scale housing development.

[1] The hotel was an impressive looking building which included two large domes on the roof, one on each corner.

[3] The hotel was part of a rapid development of the resort following the arrival of the railway in to the town.

The hotel suffered a decline with the rapid expansion of the overseas package holiday business in the 1960s.