Full of happy people enjoying the great cocktails, local food, and slightly batty interiors, the latest offering from the Pig chain also happens to overlook a stunning stretch of Dorset coast
A few years ago, I took my mum for afternoon tea with a view at an old-school seaside hotel in Dorset. The view was lovely, but we found it hard to see past the fusty decor, stale scones and cheerless staff. The owners, my mother observed, were not exactly making the most of the place.
So it was with a little trepidation that, seduced by news of the hotels reinvention, I recently returned to celebrate my wedding anniversary. As we pulled up to the 18th-century villa, signs were good a new paint job, an extension to make the most of its stunning location and we were ushered through the door by sassy, smiling staff to find the place thrumming with the sound of happy people enjoying themselves.
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