New East Sussex seaside hotel opens for business

Vincent Madden, managing director of the Everly Hotels Collection, explains why you should visit The White Horses hotel in Rottingdean

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00:00So, can you first introduce yourself and tell us why people should come and visit the White

00:06Horses in Rottingdean?

00:07Yeah, sure.

00:08So, my name is Vincent Madden, I'm the Managing Director of Venture Hotels, who have just

00:14taken over, refurbished, re-launched the White Horses in Rottingdean, it's the most amazing

00:19hotel in this fabulous location, so that's who I am.

00:23Brilliant.

00:24And what can you tell us about what's changed, because you were just saying it's a completely

00:28different venue to what it was before.

00:30Yeah, so previously it was the White Horse in Rottingdean, so we're a 32 bedroom boutique

00:37hotel located right on the shoreline, so there's no road between us and the sea, you can walk

00:43directly down onto the beach, do a little bit of sea-sitting in the morning if you want,

00:47and obviously the White Cliffs walk all the way up to Brighton and down to Salton and

00:52the Lido there.

00:53We're at this really unique location in Sussex that doesn't have this, we have this beachfront

01:01location and we've taken the hotel, we've spent the last 10 months re-developing it,

01:08re-imagining it, and creating something really special for the community in Rottingdean.

01:14So we have lots of local suppliers, lots of local beers and barley and Brighton gin and

01:21gum, so some really really great products that we have here, we've got a fabulous local

01:26team who have been training for the last month to really launch the hotel and we're just

01:34really excited.

01:35Brilliant, what do you think sets you apart from other places in Sussex and what's so

01:41amazing about the location you've got here, obviously right by the coast, you can't really

01:45pick a better place can you?

01:46Yeah, so the great thing is we're minutes from Brighton, so you can actually get a bus

01:51or drive from Brighton or an Uber from Brighton, it's literally only minutes and it's a beautiful

01:56drive actually, right across the cliffs.

02:00You then have the cliff walk that you can walk for absolute miles down by the White

02:04Cliffs and uniquely what we have here is not only do we have this beautiful village feel

02:10of Rottingdean, it's a real historical village with Ruchard Kipling and the game Cluedo was

02:15developed here and it's got a huge historical meaning, lots of smuggling going on back in

02:21the day, so it's got loads of stories in the village, but uniquely because it's a low point

02:28along the cliffs, it had huge access to the sea and we're right at the cusp of that, so

02:34you can walk from the hotel right on to the beach, you can go for your sea swim and enjoy

02:41everything that's in the village. Within the hotel we've taken quite a lot of that

02:45inspiration in, in terms of the food and the drink and the service and really the whole

02:51brand is about discovery, local discovery, flavour discovery, etc. So we're bringing

02:56all this together, the community of Rottingdean, which is an amazing place, very lucky people

03:01to live here and bringing all the best that's in hospitality right into this unique property

03:09and this unique location and you'll have taken some photos of just how good this location

03:16is, so to have the city of Brighton there, this fabulous village feel and the seaside

03:21right at your doorstep, it's just an amazing combination for us. Fantastic.