Umi Brighton Seafront Hotel

Hotel description

Opposite the beach, Umi Brighton Hotel is set on the lively seafront, about 2 minutes' walk from The Brighton Centre. It offers free Wi-Fi and free access to a local health club.

Umi Brighton Seafront Hotel is just a few minutes' walk from The Lanes and Brighton Pier. Shops, restaurants and nightlife are all very close by.

Each individually en suite room at Umi Brighton has an LCD Freeview TV, an in-room safe, trouser press and telephone. Nearly half the rooms have beautiful sea views, some also featuring air conditioning.

The air-conditioned, modern Umi Bar overlooks the seafront, and the restaurant is open from 07:00 for coffee and snacks. Delicious full English breakfasts are also served daily until 11:00.

The famous Royal Pavilion is a 5-minute walk and The Sea Life Centre is just 500 metres away. Brighton Railway Station is 0.5 miles away.

Umi now has a Coffee Republic within the hotel along with a themed Little Bay restaurant, showing live Opera music.

• 8.8/10 Lyn Family with older children

  mortlake, United Kingdom
  November 15, 2011

  Friendly and helpful staff. Large rooms with great views. Plenty of space. Good central location.

  Breakfast room not ideal- too cramped as its really intimate evening resturant. Food was ok and decent selction- though would have liked fruit. But staff not good- treated us as a bit of a nusiance sullen and unresponsive. Second morning we were five and tables for five had two people sitting at them so we had to be crammed into an area they had set up for evening meal. Could do with a bit more active managment and customer service ethos. Only thing which let the hotel down at all.

• 9.5/10 Beverley Family with young children

  Peterborough, United Kingdom
  December 12, 2011

  The location was perfect as we were attending an event at the Brighton Centre. It was very close to the centre and also a large ncp car park. The room was spotlessly clean and looked as if it had recently been renovated. Breakfast was very good with the usual selection of cereals and cooked sausages, bacon, eggs etc. I would certainly stay there again.

  My only criticism is that the shower head was quite low down (I am not particularly tall!) And the water tended to go hot and cold.

• 7.5/10 Colin Mature couple

  Croydon, United Kingdom
  November 20, 2011

  Close proximity to Brighton Centre (theatre), shopping etc. Room comfortable and good breakfast, ideal location for short break

• 5.8/10 Fred Family with older children

  Buckingham, United Kingdom
  September 7, 2011

  Location and room view quite good. Easy to get to main shopping areas. Reduced car parking voucher for the NCP Car Park. Very close to the Beach and sea front.

  Radiator in our room absolutely filthy inside, bathroom door was stiff, internal doors were sticky and the coffee bar was not open and did not look like it was being used anyway. The main revolving door is very difficult to get into with suitcases.

• 8.3/10 Maxine Family with young children

  bedford, United Kingdom
  September 6, 2011

  Location location location ....near to station and shopping...opposite beach, nice walk down to the pier, sealife and other amenities....staff were excellent..very friendly and approachable, chatty and polite. Check in was a bit hectic as not all rooms were ready by 3pm but the staff were apologetic and explained what was going on. Very surreal restaurant attached to the hotel, bit like dining on the set of Phantom of the opera...all red velvet curtains and worn down candles....interesting food options....dont plan a quick lunch there as no fast food and it is a tad expensive for what it is....breakfast was ok ...serviceable, nothing out of the ordinary...did what it was meant to do !!! Room was , well , roomy, huge bed, clean, warm and good bathroom facilities ..hairdryer didnt work but reception provided one that did.....overall a good decent fairly priced stay ...would go back again [ and u can use swimming pool at the Queens down the road too !!!!!!!!}

  It could do with a spruce up ...paintwork a bit tired, rooms look a little jaded , coffee bar that was once there now a luggage storage facility...reception a little on the small side ...but these really are just picky little complaints....its a seafront hotel that offers you a decent room with breakfast included....you want posh ? you go to one of the more expensive ones nearer the pier...simple as.............

• 10/10 Jayne Family with older children

  Dundonnell, Wester Ross, United Kingdom
  August 8, 2011

  Very close to the beach, lovely breakfast, good value, free wifi, nice shower room.

  The parking cost me £50 for 48 hours. Apparently had I parked at the ncp car park next door to the car park I went to (Churchill car park) I could have got a voucher from the hotel and only pai d .£24. I was not told this though and it was nowhere on their website.

• 5.4/10 Clive Mature couple

  corby northants, United Kingdom
  July 7, 2011

  The location

  The dining room was disgusting. The 'breakfast' - loosely termed - was even worse. Very little choice, they ran out of everything, what they did have was awful. Scrambled egg that looked like it had been there for days, as did the sausages, mushrooms. The whole area was scruffy, dirty, I worked in a steelworks and the canteen there which was a hole was still far better this.

• 3.8/10 Raymond Group of friends

  Wootton, United Kingdom
  June 23, 2011

  Location was good, that was about it.

  The cost against value...although the bed was comfy, my bathroom wasn't clean. The shower was old, warn and didn't work. The grime between the tiles wasn't nice. The breakfast in the morning wasnt ready for 7am as advertised, the buffet selection was poor. The hotel bar didn't open until 3pm and at 2230, you couldn't get a drink. Needs a good revamp. Staff weren't sympathetic and quite rude with their answers. They didn't feel compelled to offer a solution to a problem, just give a short answer with no option.

• 8.8/10 Krupa Family with older children

  Dudley, United Kingdom
  June 19, 2011

  The family room was spacious and this particular one had a sea view. I had put a note in when booking to mention my father was disabled and it would be good having a ground floor or somewhere accessible. They didn't have one on the ground floor but gave us a room right opposite the lift. The price was reasonable and the free wifi was a bonus point (when it didn't work, they were quick to resolve the problem and there wasn't an issue since). There is also a 24 hr reception and left luggage, which was handy. Although parking was an issue, a discount card is available from reception, reducing the parking fee to £12 a day at the ncp which is within walking distance.

  The breakfast was good but it could have been warmer. The front door is awkward to get in, particularly if you have lots of and/or large luggage. Lift is slightly small but luckily, I only had to go up one flight of stairs. There was noise from clubbers but being Friday night, it can't be helped- I didn't have any problems sleeping.

• 9.2/10 Roger Mature couple

  Richmond, BC, Canada
  June 16, 2011

  The staff were friendly and helpful, and we liked our room.

  Found a stuck shower control, took a bath instead.

• 4.2/10 Emma Solo traveller

  Magor, United Kingdom
  May 2, 2011

  Location - but this did not make up for what a sham of a hotel it is.

  The location was useful but the room was tiny and for the price I paid (about £100 for a single room for one night) it was pretty shocking. My room had been used just before I arrived - dirty wet towels were on the floor and the bin was full of rubbish. I was in a rush to get to a party so I didn't have time to complain to the extent I wanted - I just made sure they at least reset my room key as I was concerned someone had access to my room. I also needed an ironing board and it took about half an hour to arrive even though I said I needed it urgently and they said it was not a problem. The hotel receptionist made it very clear that the breakfast was rubbish which made me feel (along with the state of my room) that the staff don't think much of the hotel - but she was friendly. It was also quite a noisy hotel - my bedroom windows were closed but some sort of machine was constantly making a noise all night. I would not stay here again and would never recommend it to someone else. Over priced and filthy. Avoid!

• 3.3/10 Steve Mature couple

  Halling, United Kingdom
  April 27, 2011

  Sorry i can not say a good think about it.

  I Was not happy at all, the place smelt like a burnt out building, the rooms were not nice at all

• 8.8/10 Julian Family with young children

  london, United Kingdom
  April 27, 2011

  They up-graded us for the same price. Lots of space the children loved it. Great views and only 2 minutes from the beach.

  Very expensive nice hotel but £200 for one night - phew that's expensive. Breakfast was not freshly cooked and there was only plastic bread.

• 4.2/10 Anonymous Family with young children

  Belgium
  April 21, 2011

  I was disappointed at this hotel. There was no refrigerator in all rooms and they couldn't keep our cold drinks. We stayed "Family seaside room", but the room fronts the road which meets in a line perpendicular to the coast. We couldn't enjoy an ocean view...Some plates were dirty in the cafeteria.

• 5.4/10 Anonymous Mature couple

  Switzerland
  July 24, 2011

  Good location

  While a good location, it is also extremely noisy esp. at night, being on the main seaside road and next to a noisy nightclub. At breakfast on the 21st july, we had to wait for 35 minutes to get some bread, only comment from the stafff was 'we're waiting for delivery' - this was at 8am.

• 8.8/10 Hamad Solo traveller

  Kuwait, Kuwait
  January 24, 2012

  The best thing of umi brighton hotel is it location and the staff is very friendly and helpful .

  But the bad thing in the hotel is their connection of the internet it is very slow and in some rooms to connect to the internet is very difficult thing .

• 10/10 Gordon Mature couple

  Sandwich, United Kingdom
  January 23, 2012

  Hello .My wife and i enjoyed our stay , we would definitly stay again next year as we would like to come down to go to the ice show .kind regards Mr & Mrs Holness

• 2.9/10 Anonymous Young couple

  United Kingdom
  January 21, 2012

  The location is about the only thing that is worth any credit about this place

  The room wasnt cleaned when we asked , the shower didnt work , the food wasnt very good and they played the same song on repeat in the restaurant . Alot of the staff couldnt speak english so that wasnt very kosha . When we tried to leave the shower which was always vewry hot or very cold stopped working completely they had to move us to another room to shower ands then I forgot some of my stuff in the other room. when I went to check out and explain to the manager about the problems which had made the trip very exhausting instead of a rest ; he was very rude and simply told me that things happen in life and you cant always get things right! That was just ridiculous that he just doesnt care , I was so annoyed I argued with him until he gave us one night for free due to the problems. He did not do it out of good will he did it to get rid of me .

• 8.8/10 Nikolaos Solo traveller

  Ierapetra, Greece
  January 20, 2012

  location

  courtains

• 8.3/10 Emma Group of friends

  Surrey, United Kingdom
  January 19, 2012

  I stayed in a single room which was comfortable and good value for the price.

  Unfortunatley the noise from the clubs in the next Rd made sleeping impossible. I stayed with a group of friends who had a nother room on different side of hotel who were not affected by the noise.

• 8.3/10 Maria Solo traveller

  Brighton, United Kingdom
  January 17, 2012

  Rooms were clean, shower/bathroom was great!

  The hotel had the most useless revolving door to get in, it really was a struggle to get 2 large suitcases through a tiny (non-automatic) revolving door. There was no other door or entrance that we could see. However, once we were in, it was fine.. Only other drawbacks were: Heating in the room, switched off early in the evening and comes on late in the morning. We were given a small electric heater when we complained, so that helped. The noise - though this is probably unavoidable unless you get one of the seafront rooms, and what you'd expect in the location. This is not a complaint against the hotel, more like advice if you prefer complete peace and quiet.

• 10/10 Emily Solo traveller

  LAMBALLE, France
  January 17, 2012

  Sa situation au bord de la mer, ces personnel à la fois courtoise et à leurs aise. Great location, and polite yet chilled-out staff. Well done, guys! I miss the UK so much and guys like you remind me why! I have recommended you to at least 4 different people since my stay 3 nights ago!

• 8.3/10 Paz Young couple

  Madrid, Spain
  January 16, 2012

  Location!

  The size of the room was quite short.

• 8.3/10 Ian Group of friends

  bristol, United Kingdom
  January 16, 2012

  Room was clean & well presented. Buffet breakfast was more than adequate. Check in was quick & efficent. Bar open til 4am! Excellent location.

  The only negative was the shower was no more than a trickle. This may have been because we were on the 5th floor.

• 6.7/10 Michele Group of friends

  Limerick, Ireland
  January 14, 2012

  The only thing we liked was the beds the room was a disgrace with the curtains and the walls.