Pal's Inn

If I'm honest, on approach last night I was convinced this place was closed and had been for decades but no, it's just frozen in time. It's charmed us both immensely. We are one of three occupied rooms in the quite large seaside hotel, haunted by an excellent older gentleman who says brilliant things like "check in process now finish" but had forgotten to give us the room key and then blushing, and, proudly, "opening lid my job" when presenting us with our breakfast boxes in the morning.

Last night we slept in twin beds bolted to an elaborate headboard, and fell asleep minutes after finishing our discounted 200Y chicken rice and noodle dinners from Lawsons. James did the laundry, I should text those girls and tell them we're going to be ok.Read more