Sluttery Travels: La Rosa, Whitby

When a hotel heads up its website with 'Victorian Seaside Fun', I get quite excited. I truly love old British seaside towns. Give me a cream tea, a blustery walk and a shit plastic windmill that doesn't work and I'm happy.

La Rosa is a curious little place, somewhat inspired by fairy tales since Lewis Carroll was said to holiday at 5 East Terrace where the hotel stands (there's a blue plaque and everything). Now the rooms are named after Angela Carter's Little Red, Bram Stoker and Lewis himself.

Most of the rooms have sea views, and there's a huge attic room called The Crow's Nest that sleeps six.

There's a little tea room and a bar that serves tapas and cocktails where the hotel 'aim to welcome people of all types except racists, bigots or puritans'. Nicely put. They also specify that the bar is not a nightclub - they're more about the romance and fun that finishes at midnight.

Luckily, I turn into a little old lady when I go to the seaside. I'm invariably tucked up in bed with a cuppa by 10pm reading a good book.

La Rosa looks like a truly gorgeous hotel to visit, and a room here will cost you as little as £86 a night, maybe cheaper if you're lucky enough to get a late deal. Breakfast is served as a little picnic basket in bed so you get croissants and jam and tasty things. It's not a rock 'n' roll hotel, but it looks rather special.