Kingscliff Hotel
Seaside getaway in Essex for 2 nights
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Why We Love This Deal
Kingscliff Hotel looks over the waves with seaside towns, wildlife havens, and sandy beaches nearby. A 2-night break is £139 and saves between 36% and 44%, depending on the date of stay.
What's Included
Valid Sunday–Thursday until 30 September, 2025. Fridays are £10 more and Saturdays £20 more, payable direct to the hotel
A 2-night stay for two people in a Standard Double or Twin room, with daily full English breakfast
Late checkout until 1pm (worth £20)
An overnight stay with the same inclusions is available Sunday–Thursday for £89. Fridays are £10 more, payable direct. Saturdays are not available
Not available on 5, 12, 16, 19–20, 25–27, 31 July; 7–9, 16, 20–24 August, 2025
"We love going to the Kingscliff Hotel and know the staff well. It’s always a lovely experience being right opposite the beach and sea. The breakfast is lovely and all their food is great and presented so nicely. Can’t recommend enough."
The hotel's contemporary restaurant offers all day dining, Sunday roasts, afternoon tea, and brunch. There is a terrace looking out to the sea. Plus (available for hire at a supplement) a heated outdoor pod for private dining.
The hotel is less than 10 minutes' drive from Clacton-on-Sea. This bustling coastal town has a pleasure pier, beaches, theatres, and family-friendly amusements.
The genteel seaside resort of Frinton-on-Sea is around 15 minutes away by car. Find a promenade, colourful Victorian-style beach huts, and tea rooms aplenty.
Spot common and grey seals at Hamford Water National Nature Reserve. Or visit the Essex Wildlife Trust Naze Nature Discovery Centre, situated beside Naze Tower. Both are approximately 20 minutes' drive away.
Lavenham is just under an hour's drive from the hotel. It's considered Britain's best preserved Medieval village and was a filming location for "Harry Potter".
How to Book: Purchase a voucher from Travelzoo then call 01255 818 800 or email info@thekingscliffhotel.com to make a reservation for your desired travel dates. Reservations are subject to availability and early booking is encouraged. Restaurant reservations are subject to availability; please call the hotel ahead of your visit to confirm availability.
Voucher Cancellation & Refund Policy: Within 14 days of purchase, Travelzoo will give you a full refund if you change your mind or can't find dates that suit you. Vouchers can be refunded online by going to "My Account". After 14 days, your voucher is non-refundable. If advanced reservations are required, changes and cancellations are subject to the merchant’s cancellation or rescheduling policy, and may result in a fee or voucher forfeiture. You must cancel your reservation directly with the merchant prior to refunding your voucher.
Hotel Cancellation & Rescheduling Policy: Once you’ve made your reservation, you cannot change your travel dates with the hotel. If you cancel or change your booking in violation of the hotel's cancellation policy, you may be subject to additional fees or voucher forfeiture.
Menu items are subject to change. Cannot be combined with any other offer. No cash value or cash back. The regular value stated is based on the maximum combined cost of the items included in this experience at the time of publication (13 June, 2025). The photos are for illustration purposes only. If you experience any difficulties booking, please contact our Customer Service team for assistance before the voucher expiration date.
Excellent stay, staff are so pleasant friendly and so willing to help when making enquiries. Room was clean and comfortable, lovely bathroom although a strange small sink, otherwise perfect. Bed was comfortable and clean, hard to fault this hotel.
Other Comments
I would recommend this hotel for a pleasant and quiet stay.
Elizabeth07 Jul, 2025shrewsbury, UK
Enjoyed Most
A very pleasant stay. The staff are very friendly and helpful but a couple more of them wouldn't go amiss.
Larry24 Jun, 2025Kings Langley, UK
Enjoyed Most
Staff were all so lovely and went the extra mile when needed. Always pleasant and friendly and always said good morning, evening etc x
Other Comments
Breakfast was good quality and served hot
Staff attentive
Good in general was good
Beautifully clean
Julie21 Jun, 2025London, UK
Enjoyed Most
Lovely place, beautiful location, nice food, spacious rooms - very pleasant overall.
Tess19 Jun, 2025Orpington, UK
Other Comments
This hotel is more like a pub with accommodation. It has a lovely outside seating area and garden. Friendly, welcoming staff, good restaurant and bar. Room was pretty standard clean and comfortable.
shane19 Jun, 2025ENFIELD, UK
Enjoyed Most
The hotel is situated in a lovely position. we stayed 2 nights & paid for a sea view. our room was very clean & comfortable. The breakfast was one of the best we have had in a hotel. We had our evening meal there which we enjoyed. The staff were so friendly & nothing was too much trouble for them. Look forward to visiting the Kingscliff again.
david14 Jun, 2025BIGGLESWADE, UK
Enjoyed Most
Very good, food and service excellent. Nice clean room.
Anthony14 Jun, 2025Farnborough, UK
Enjoyed Most
The breakfast was good when you got it, I had to get up several times to ask for items, re orange juice, bread which you had to toast yourself . Not the sort of hotel that I enjoy.
Other Comments
The bathroom needed a good clean. Very ordinary.room nothing special about it at all .
Susan12 Jun, 2025Hextable Kent, UK
Enjoyed Most
Restaurant were friendly and the ambiance was good. I think that regular paying guests with rooms overlooking the sea would be extremely happy.
Other Comments
As Travelzoo guests we were allocated a room in what is basically an add on shed at the back of the hotel overlooking the carpark. The back and forth of rattling waste trolleys and the attending recycling lorry wakened us at 6.00 am.
Unfortunately the restaurant appeared to suffer shortages from the menu. "Sorry the mussles are off". Ok I'll have the skate. ... "Sorry that's off too"
This is a seaside location!
Gordon10 Jun, 2025Maldon, UK
Enjoyed Most
Lovely friendly staff.
Full English breakfast disappointing.
Other Comments
Great location, just over the road from the beach, free parking.
Louise09 Jun, 2025High Wycombe, UK
Enjoyed Most
The staff were very helpful and the food was very good
Sarah09 Jun, 2025Basildon, UK
Enjoyed Most
All the staff were very friendly and our room was spacious with a comfortable bed. We used the restaurant, which had a varied menu, reasonably priced. Our choices were all very tasty. Would certainly recommend & likely to go back.
Ian08 Jun, 2025Hornchurch, UK
Enjoyed Most
We had a very pleasant couple of days at this hotel. We paid extra for a room with a sea view which we felt was worth doing and ate both nights in the hotel restaurant which had s nice menu, a very good atmosphere and friendly staff. Breakfast was very good too.
Other Comments
Overall a great value weekend
Bernadette31 May, 2025GREAT MISSENDEN, UK
Enjoyed Most
We love going to the Kingscliff Hotel and know the staff well. It’s always a lovely experience being right opposite the beach and sea. The breakfast is lovely and all their food is great and presented so nicely. Can’t recommend enough.
Ann31 May, 2025Bishops Stortford, Herts, UK
Enjoyed Most
On arrival staff were so helpful, breakfast and lunch were very good, parking was really good, rooms very well decorated and had all you need in them.
Susan31 May, 2025Chatham, UK
Enjoyed Most
We had been promised a ground floor room but on check in we were offered a first floor room. We asked for the promised ground floor room and this was sorted out immediately.
Other Comments
Josh and the reception staff were very hrlpful
Denis27 May, 2025Slough, UK
Other Comments
Perfect Break away at Kingscliff Hotel once again .. we will be back. Requested Disability Room very good spacious light and bright. Like staying here as just a 5 min drive to visit our friends in Clacton. We will be back on a Travel Zoo another time.
John17 May, 2025Watford, UK
Enjoyed Most
Very pleasant surprise, everything was very good, a couple of blips, running out of orange juice at breakfast, due to late delivery. The other blip was our room card kept going wrong, but it was sorted.
Other Comments
Good quality soaps etc. Coffee machine with pods and also good quality teas and coffee and biscuits. In room. Hotel was spiotless, pretty gardens and free parking.
Teresa12 May, 2025Lincoln, UK
Enjoyed Most
Overall very good. The room we had was the nosiest hotel room I have ever stayed in.
Jean03 May, 2025Grays, UK
Enjoyed Most
great
Martyn02 May, 2025Emsworth, UK
Enjoyed Most
We were very pleased to get the dates we needed, for a family get together in Frinton-on-Sea (10 mins car drive away). Booking was simple...having received the voucher from 'Travelzoo' I phoned the hotel & it was booked straight away.
The bed was comfortable, lovely crisp, clean, white bedding & fluffy white towels. Big walk-in shower with choice of 'rain' shower head or normal one.
The only gripes we had were:- After checking in, we had to take our belongings (bags, etc) through the bar, where people were sitting eating/drinking. Felt a bit uncomfortable doing this. We thought there should be a separate entrance for guests staying, or maybe just don't put tables so near to the guest stairway? Also, as with a lot of othet hotels we've stayed at, there were no bottles of water in tge guest rooms. I just think it's a nice touch, plus the water in the bathroom taps very often isn't suitable for drinking. The breakfast was adequate, although not much choice of cereals...Cornflakes, Coco Pops or All-Bran! Plenty of fresh fruit, yoghurts, bread for toasting (but no butter! Had to ask every time we wanted some. Again, we thought there should be some small individual packets of butter, as per jams & marmalades.
Julie28 Apr, 2025West Sussex, UK
Enjoyed Most
overall very good
Other Comments
disappointed when checking in on arrival on first day, the young lady was not exactly very welcoming in respect that she seemed to think she was doing us a favour to serve us.
Peter26 Apr, 2025Watford, UK
Enjoyed Most
Many visits over the last 5 years.I think that says it all.
Kenneth24 Apr, 2025Dunstable,Beds., UK
Enjoyed Most
Great location right opposite the cliff & down to the beach. Really nice, friendly staff. Restaurant food is very good (especially the desserts!).
Suzy21 Apr, 2025
Other Comments
The beach is vast, but the coast is featureless. No busses pass so you have to drive to find any life.The hotel has its own life and events, but for us it is too far away from other bars and cafes, but would suit any one who mostly just wanted to walk the beach, as long as they didn't want to eat or drink anything along the way.
Alastair L21 Apr, 2025LUTON, UK
Enjoyed Most
Staff very accommodating and helpful. We asked for a room with a bigger bed, which they went out of their way to do, albeit we agreed to pay for an upgrade. When the food wasn’t good enough in the restaurant, the cost of that meal was taken off the bill without having to ask, in spite of him being rushed and busy.
Other Comments
Very short staffed, especially in the restaurant/bar area. Didn’t encourage us to use housekeeping service, siting eco reasons.
Cindy14 Apr, 2025
Enjoyed Most
The staff that were there were very nice
Other Comments
Although the staff were very friendly there was not enough of them. The wait for our evening meal was over an hour and even then they got the meal wrong . As regards breakfast they kept running out of things. . The shower was not working properly in our room. All in all a bit of a disappointment which was a shame . Better management could make this a nice hotel
peter05 Apr, 2025Doddinghurst, UK
Enjoyed Most
Lovely hotel. Well decorated. Staff very friendly other than at one point when ignored by 2 talking. Let down by the bedroom. Broken blind, dirty table and side in bathroom. Otherwise very clean
Jacqueline04 Apr, 2025
Enjoyed Most
Entrance beautiful flower pots display and garden at front and side. Great views to sea and coastal walk. Loved the decor spacious dining area and lounge also garden very tidy.
Other Comments
Reception Bar Staff always behind scenes chatting I had to go looking for service. Meal service very slow. Some staff very surly others very pleasant and helpful.
First evening both our meal’s were delicious well cooked presented good service.
Second evening had to wait almost 50 minutes ( they weren’t very busy. ) most disappointed with our meals. My pasta was swimming in oil and burnt onions couldn’t eat it. My husband had steak very tough again couldn’t eat it.
When the waitress asked had we enjoyed it we told her. She didn’t response. !
Breakfast I only had croissant, my husband toast. There were flasks of hot water to self serve tea / coffee not good. I asked for flat white and told I would be charged £3:10 not acceptable. Especially when I wasn’t eating full breakfast. However manager did agree to me having one without charge. Thank you.
Gerald Frank03 Apr, 2025
Enjoyed Most
They provided us with a family room when complained about the original allocated room where located right next to the boiler room. It’s a pity there was no bath tub but only a shower with less pressure.
Toshikatsu28 Mar, 2025London, UK
Enjoyed Most
Been to the Kingscliff several times and is our go to place for frequent visits to Clacton on Sea.
Friendly, efficient staff, excellent quality food and drink and in a great location. Well appointed rooms although some are car park facing & offer no sea views.
Overall a delightful, relaxing place to stay.
IAN26 Sep, 2024
Enjoyed Most
Excellent
Mary25 Sep, 2024LONDON, UK
Enjoyed Most
Reception very friendly and great check in
Breakfast felt it was not the standard of service I expect but food was good. Had evening meal and couldn’t fault went out of their way to accommodate me with my dietary requirements. The front of house manager was exceptionally helpful
Other Comments
The only thing I felt was a bit of a problem the fact that there were no coasters in the room to put a glass on and this was a bit of a problem as it could potentially ruin the wood
EUNICE22 Sep, 2024Huntingdon, UK
Enjoyed Most
Very friendly, helpful and efficient staff
Excellent breakfast
Room quite basic
Anthony18 Sep, 2024Dunstable, UK
Enjoyed Most
Location is excellent for the sandy beach and long promenade walk. The hotel has a sheltered garden to sit in, at the front, overlooking the sea.
Other Comments
I feel that Travelzoo members are offered a discount rate for rooms that are already the cheapest . Our room was at the back, in the car park, in an annex, with a small high window.
susan16 Sep, 2024Bedworth, UK
Enjoyed Most
Excellent in everything
David07 Sep, 2024Cambridge, UK
Enjoyed Most
Very enjoyable two night stay.
Other Comments
Perfect position.Right next to the sea.
gordon21 Aug, 2024Sutton Coldfield, UK
Enjoyed Most
Fabulous hotel, staff amazing, food gorgeous, atmosphere welcoming and fun
Other Comments
Love the staff and the ambience
Dawn18 Aug, 2024
Enjoyed Most
Very nice quality hotel. Friendly staff. Good food.
Pauline10 Aug, 2024Chelmsford, UK
Enjoyed Most
We had a fantastic break at this friendly hotel
Jane10 Aug, 2024Leighton Buzzard, UK
Enjoyed Most
Lovely hotel which had all we needed for our short stay. Would prefer a room away from the car park where we were woken early on the Saturday by the delivery lorry.
07 Aug, 2024Crawley, UK
Enjoyed Most
Lovely and convenient location. Really nice staff. Good room. No complaints
Other Comments
Will definitely come again and the restaurant was great too.
Anita18 Jul, 2024
Enjoyed Most
Easy check in and free parking explained. Clean, comfortable room. Food for breakfast good. Ate in restaurant on one night and food was good.
Other Comments
Tables in the bar area could have been cleared And cleaned more efficiently but other than this, no complaints.
Mr MF18 Jul, 2024Tunbridge Wells, UK
Enjoyed Most
The hotel was clean and comfortable. Parking easy. Breakfast good.
Other Comments
We arrived on a Sunday. My fault I had only printed off one form, we had booked two, I had paid when booking but because I didn't have 2nd form with pin number I had to pay again. When I phoned Travelzoo Monday morning they immediately sorted it out for me and arranged for a refund. 5 stars to Travelzoo for their action and help.
Jillian15 Jul, 2024Sandhurst, UK
Enjoyed Most
The room was acceptable apart from the dirty glass. The bathroom was lovely and big with a bath and separate shower. The bathroom could’ve done with a blind.
Other Comments
The staff behaved like they were all there for their own social club. Service was a secondary consideration.
Rosalind15 Jul, 2024Bury St. Edmunds, UK
Enjoyed Most
Stayed for two nights. We upgraded to a sea view room which had a lovely view with very large bed. Bathroom was rather small with no bath. Room was very clean but a little tired looking. Large free car park at back of hotel & great location on the seafront. Large bar area with loads of seating although it can get very busy & noisy at times. Staff were all very friendly although service could be a little slow. The only real disappointment was the breakfast, the cooked breakfast was fine but spoiled by cheap bread & pastries & concentrated juice on continental buffet. Overall good value for money based on what we paid.
Julie13 Jul, 2024Alfreton, UK
Enjoyed Most
Staff very helpful and great value
Patricia09 Jul, 2024London, UK
Enjoyed Most
Polite attentive staff across the hotel.
Other Comments
Only downside was time taken to answer site telephone. This did not detract from overal very good experience. Handy bus service into Clacton.
Eric09 Jul, 2024Alfreton, UK
Enjoyed Most
Gathering with family fro uk and Florida.
Other Comments
Should replace tea, coffee and toilet rolls daily. This is recurring minor problem that reception always sorts out.
stephen26 Jun, 2024hornchurch, UK
Enjoyed Most
A fantastic little hotel with excellent staff in an ideal location. What more is there? Thanks everyone at the Kingscliff for making it the special place that it is!
