Dolphin Hotel

Dating from 1550 the dolphin has had many extensions and remodeling over the centuries and rather than being designed this way it's sort of evolved into what it is today-an eclectic mix of old and new. This mix seems to work, where Rococo ceilings look down on a modern cocktail bar, where English oak paneling sits comfortably next to a stainless steel and glass bar inspired by the grille of a Bentley GT. Where Victorian cornice sleeps with flat screen TV and contemporary art and where Edwardian plumbing joins with Philippe Starck taps and Italian Glass sinks-it's all a bit odd really. The hotel is a little bit tired but it's clean and tidy. In no way could you mistake the hotel for a large corporate property, but then again there's no way you could mistake our pricing for that of a large corporate property. The hotel has 65 rooms, a bistro style restaurant, a cocktail bar, a lounge bar (24hr), function rooms, a hairdressers, a beauty salon, a massage (not that sort!) therapy treatment suite, a limousine hire company, a car park, six ghosts, three seagulls, two wood pigeons and a parrot. The hotel has 65 rooms, a bistro style restaurant, a cocktail bar, a lounge bar (24hr), function rooms, a hairdressers, a beauty salon, a massage (not that sort) therapy treatment suite, a limousine hire company, a car park, six ghosts, three seagulls, two wood pigeons and a parrot. Southampton is the major retail hub for the south coast, with all the well known shops as well as some more individual ones, six of which are situated in the hotel's very own shopping lane calling it Dolphin Lane, home to Breeze-Hair Salon, Orchard Therapies-Massage & treatments and many more. A weekly market is held in Southampton and is just 100yrds from the hotel-with fresh local produce. The hotel provides amenities like bar, Internet access-high-speed, non-smoking rooms, parking facilities-at cost, reception, restaurant, and smoke-free hotel.

Check-in Time:

1400

Check-out Time:

1200

Year Renovated:

2003

Total Rooms:

Double Room:Room with one twin bed includes color TV, DVD player, ensuite/ private bathroom, hairdryer, heating, internet access, iron/ ironing board, non smoking rooms, tea and coffee making facilities and telephone.

Total Floors:

4 floors.

Rooms:

Double Room:Room with one twin bed includes color TV, DVD player, ensuite/ private bathroom, hairdryer, heating, internet access, iron/ ironing board, non smoking rooms, tea and coffee making facilities and telephone.

Directions

By Road-leave M27 at Junction 3 on to the M271 following the brown tourist signs to 'WATERFRONT' & 'I.O.W. Ferry'-when you get to the IOW (Isle of Wight) ferry turn left onto the high street-the hotel is up on the right. For The Car Park when you turn onto the high street, take the second turning on the right-Bernard Street and follow to the traffic lights at the end. Turn Left at these lights, and go past the Texaco Garage on your left. Take the next left sign posted Eastgate Street Parking. Follow the road along and bear left, the hotel car park is a hundred yards up on the right.

Area

Southampton.

Dining

ReataurantThis is the season of slow food. The kind of food that you throw into a heavy casserole dish and then forget for a couple of hours, allowing the combination of heat and great produce to work its alchemy with very little interference from you. Then just lift the lid and gather with friends around a pot of rich velvety meat or hearty vegetables. This kind of food needs little more than a side dish of creamy mashed potato or spicy couscous to turn it into the culinary equivalent of a soft thick blanket. Big, big reds are definitely in this season and Amarone a valpolicella from the house of Bolla is quite simply 'liquid love'. Snuggling up on a sofa with a 'good' friend sipping this wonderful wine in front of the embers of a dying fire is what winter is all about.

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