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The Sea Hotel

3.0 star property
Hotel in South Shields with a 24-hour front desk and a restaurant

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Front of property
Premier Suite | Bathroom | Free toiletries, hair dryer
Premier Suite | 1 bedroom, free WiFi
Family Room | 1 bedroom, free WiFi
Breakfast and dinner served
This seaside retreat offers a restaurant and bar with cooked-to-order breakfast, outdoor furniture for relaxation, and a banquet hall for events. Free self-parking and a 24-hour front desk add convenience. Guests especially appreciate the helpful staff.

Reviews

8.4 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Housekeeping
  • Parking included

Room options

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Standard Double Room | 1 bedroom, free WiFi

Standard Double Room

7.8 out of 10
Good
(10 reviews)

Highlights

Heating
Flat-screen TV
Ceiling fan
Separate bedroom
Private bathroom
Hair dryer
Electric kettle
Daily housekeeping
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Standard Twin Room | 1 bedroom, free WiFi

Standard Twin Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(2 reviews)

Highlights

Heating
Flat-screen TV
Ceiling fan
Separate bedroom
Private bathroom
Hair dryer
Electric kettle
Daily housekeeping
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

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Family Room | 1 bedroom, free WiFi

Family Room

8.4 out of 10
Very good
(5 reviews)

Highlights

Heating
Flat-screen TV
Ceiling fan
Separate bedroom
Private bathroom
Hair dryer
Electric kettle
Daily housekeeping
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Twin Bed

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Single Room | 1 bedroom, free WiFi

Single Room

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(9 reviews)

Highlights

Heating
Flat-screen TV
Ceiling fan
Separate bedroom
Private bathroom
Hair dryer
Electric kettle
Daily housekeeping
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

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Premier Suite | 1 bedroom, free WiFi

Premier Suite

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(2 reviews)

Highlights

Heating
Flat-screen TV
Separate bedroom
Ceiling fan
Private bathroom
Hair dryer
Electric kettle
Daily housekeeping
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About the neighborhood

Map
Sea Road, South Shields, England, NE33 2LD

What's nearby

  • Ocean Beach Pleasure Park - 2 min walk - 0.1 miles
  • The Marsden Grotto - 5 min drive - 3.1 miles
  • Wet 'n' Wild Water Park - 13 min drive - 6.2 miles
  • Port Of Tyne - 13 min drive - 6.4 miles
  • Tynemouth Castle - 17 min drive - 3.3 miles

Getting around

  • Brockley Whins Station - 9 min drive
  • St. Peter's Station - 14 min drive
  • Newcastle Intl. Airport (NCL) - 36 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪The Marine - ‬6 min walk
  • ‪Minchella & Co. Ice Cream Parlour - ‬9 min walk
  • ‪The Sundial - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Toney Minchella @ Haven Point - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Toney Minchella @ the park - ‬3 min walk

About this property

The Sea Hotel

Property highlights
The Sea Hotel provides amenities like a bar and a restaurant. Guests can connect to free in-room WiFi.
Additional perks include:
  • Free self parking
  • Cooked-to-order breakfast (surcharge), a banquet hall, and outdoor furniture
  • A 24-hour front desk
  • Guest reviews speak highly of the helpful staff
Room features
All guestrooms at The Sea Hotel offer amenities such as free WiFi.
More amenities include:
  • Bathrooms with tubs or showers and free toiletries
  • Electric kettles, heating, and daily housekeeping

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Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • Cooked-to-order breakfast available for a fee 7:00 AM to 9:30 AM on weekdays and 8:00 AM to 10:30 AM on weekends; GBP 10.95 for adults and GBP 8.95 for children
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Restaurants on site

  • Adham Restaurant

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Outdoors

  • Outdoor furniture

Accessibility

  • No elevator

More

  • Banquet hall

Room amenities

Bathroom

  • Bathtub or shower
  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle

More

  • Heating

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Property payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: approximately GBP 10.95 for adults and GBP 8.95 for children

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Safety features at this property include a smoke detector
Property Registration Number 96263149

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Frequently asked questions

Is The Sea Hotel pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at The Sea Hotel?

Self parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at The Sea Hotel?

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime.

What time is check-out at The Sea Hotel?

Check-out is at 11:00 AM.

Where is The Sea Hotel located?

Situated in South Shields, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Ocean Beach Pleasure Park and The Customs House. The Marsden Grotto and Northumberlandia are also within 3 mi (5 km).

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Reviews

The Sea Hotel Reviews

8.4

Very Good

8.4

Cleanliness

7.8

Amenities

9.0

Staff & service

7.8

Eco-friendliness

7.8

Property conditions & facilities
Rating 10 - Excellent. 97 out of 194 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 55 out of 194 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 28 out of 194 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 10 out of 194 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 194 reviews

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Keith

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent location plenty of things to do locally and will be returning soon
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Laurence

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful location Great staff
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Keith

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Sea hotel South Shields highly recommend it

Excellent hotel , lovely large room , staff excellent, nicely situated and was first class
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location, right on the sea front and amusements just over the road for kids. Rooms wree great, plenty room and very clean. Great breakfast, super friendly staff. Would 100% stay again when back at shields
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Kirstie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely location , clean and tidy and good parking and access to the annex rooms.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Ashleigh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing staff lovely room
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Ruth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great location friendly staff

A really lovely hotel that offered restaurant and bar with an ocean view. I had not been to South Shields before and the staff were so friendly and helpful.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location friendly staff clean and tidy.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Sunita

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Our room was lovely and the roll top bat
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The staff make your holiday
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Happy

Stayed in the Annex as disabled family room was required and could not have asked for more. Spacious comfortable and had all the requirements that were needed for our wheelchair user. Staff were friendly and helpful. Room was warm and clean with comfortable beds. Breakfast was lovely too.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2025

4/10 Poor

Linda

Staff were excellent - very friendly - but bed very uncomfortable/bits of biscuits under both sides of the bed/had to put towel under tap as it wouldn’t stop dripping/looked like blood on the carpet - shabby paintwork/carpets etc/restaurant and food lovely so were the staff again - but upstairs needs renovating - felt like a contractors hotel rather than a seaside stay hotel. Views nice out to sea and the river. Wasn’t expensive but don’t think we’ll stay again!
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Lorraine Clarke

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Review of Sea Hotel

Good shoreline. Good resturants nearby
Stayed 6 nights in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
This is a repeat visit. Staff are all geordies profess to be kind helpful and funny. Just love the area. We drove 315 miles to get here and worth it. On a negative note dont do their Sunday lunch its awful. Go and have fish and chips at Colemans
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Best value accommodation.

The hotel is very well situated for a short summer break to visit family and friends, there was entertainment for everyone and over the weekend visitors to the area gave the place a real buzz. The staff were very friendly and went beyond their duties to care and look after us during our stay.
Nearby entertainment
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Gary

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
The rooms a tidy. Crumbs behind the door and the bathroom had mould - the sealant needs replacing
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Margaret

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Property was ok for a 2 night stay. Room needs upgraded.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2024

10/10 Excellent

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

GNR Stay

Stayed for Great North Run. You were able to get food in the restaurant. Rooms were decent enough for what I required
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

6/10 Okay

Stuart

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Ok good food and even a early morning alarm call!!

All the staff we dealt with were terrific, helpful and friendly. Food was very good and value for the money. Unfortunately parts of the hotel are scruffy, we were in the annexe, the room was reasonable and clean, outside was very in need of a clean up with lots of rubbish in the car park and outside area. Parking for hotel customers is free and the hotel is handy for the beach and local amusements. The down side to our visit was the fire alarm went of& at 2.30 am and there’s no instructions on the door of the room or anywhere close by, this is illegal ! Disappointing no one explained why the fire alarm went off, we stood in the car park for at least 10 minutes and in the end we had to go into the hotel to find someone to do something about the alarm.
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

8/10 Good

Natalia

Liked: Staff & service

Our opinion 7/10

hotel located about 150m from the beach. we had a room oremuim suite with a view of the park on the other side of the street. after entering the hotel and the room we were greeted by an unpleasant smell of "toilet". there is no air conditioning in the room, there is only a fan. at first glance clean, but after looking closer you could see the shortcomings of the cleaning team. morning cleaning unfortunately poor. towels were not changed, they were left on the floor, and a dirty towel was hung on the bathtub instead of a new one. very tasty breakfasts in the form of a menu from the menu. great service, the lady in the restaurant and 2 young bartenders nice and smiling. in our opinion the hotel 7/10
Stayed 2 nights in May 2025

8/10 Good

Christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Liked location clean hotel we stopped in annex rooms on car park Only disappointing thing no bar later on thought be open after 10 pm
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

8/10 Good

Ann

Liked: Staff & service
Good
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Mahida

Room given was designed for a disabled individual's and room given wasn’t part of hotel but was in a separate annex.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

6/10 Okay

Neil

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Great staff and location, room / bathroom poor

Staff excellent, helpful and atentive.. But... Room left much to be desired. Bathroom has had the celling re-plastered but not cleaned properly ties, floor and window covered in plaster... fixtures old and tired.. Bedroom, clean and freshly painted but several lights not working / broken, kettle tripped the fuse.. bed / mattress poor Location and feel of the place spot on!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

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