Fifty en suite rooms, many with sea views or balconies, all with satellite TV, direct dial telephones, tea and coffee making facilities and hospitality tray. Executive self-contained suites as well as one- and two-bedroomed studios. Sheltered patio with views across the Thames Estuary and Oval Lawns. Six person lift (wheelchair access to some rooms). Spacious dance floor and restaurant with table d’hôte and à la carte menus.
Offering a wide variety of accommodation, this elegant Victorian hotel has recently been refurbished from top to toe and is currently Margate’s only 3 star hotel. Smiths Court features spacious bedrooms with stunning sea views, as well as fully-equipped executive suites ideal for self catering holidays or long-stay guests. Relax in the 007 bar where Ian Fleming penned and, by all accounts, Noel Coward sipped. This is a hotel where you check in and chill out! The quiet and unobtrusive service ensures that guests return time after time.
Bedrooms
Smith's Court features spacious bedrooms with stunning sea views, as well as fully-equipped executive suites ideal for self catering holidays or long-stay guests.
Weddings
Congratulations on deciding to take the plunge! Without doubt this will be the most important day of your lives, and we're here to ensure it's absolutely perfect.Refurbishments to the Bar and Function area at Smiths Court will allow us to seat 120 comfortably, and, during the summer, a spacious patio area will also be available to your guests. A new Orangery planned for summer 2005 will be licensed for Wedding ceremonies, and from the Autumn of 2005 a total package – Ceremony, Celebration and Accommodation – will all be available at the Smiths Court.
Conference and Meeting Packages
The 007 suite is 45' x 25' seats 120 theatre style. A state of the art conference room is currently under construction, and will seat twenty, boardroom style. We also offer a number of smaller syndicate rooms seating 8 – 10 people, and most enjoying fantastic views over the Thames Estuary. An excellent venue for an overnight conference which combines business and leisure.
Leisure Facilities
There is a cardio-vascular gym at Smiths, to work off the excesses of excellent dining. Plans to add an indoor pool, sauna and steam room are underway, and it is hoped these additional facilities will be operational before the end of 2005.
Smiths Court Christmas Party 2008
Crayfish and Rocket Salad bound in brandied marie rose sauce. Warm Garlic Mushrooms on toasted brushetta. Trio of Melon with winter berry compote. Chunky vegetable soup with parmesan croutons and fresh basil roll. Potato skins filled with creamy leel and bacon.
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One-piece Beef, from Hubbards farm, Ashford, slow braised in Merlot, with sweet shallots and mushrooms served on whole grain mustard mash. Roast Kentish Turkey with sausage and apple stuffing roast and new potatoes. Roast leg of kentish lamb with roasted potatoes and rosemary gravy. Supreme of salmon honey glazed on wilted spinach with chive butter sauce. Gressingham Duck Breast pan served with a cointreau orange sauce on bubble and squeek Stuffed field mushroom with spinach, mushroom grain mustard and a mozzarella topping. 8oz fillet steak with saute potatoes, mushrooms, tomato and mixed leaf salad.
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Chefs own Christmas pudding with brandy sauce. Duo of profiteroles one dark chocolate, one white chocolate and filled with whipped cream. Poached English Pear poached in mulled wine with natural vanilla pod ice cream. Chocolate and orange pot rich chocolate and tangy orange mousse with shortbread biscuit. Home-made Banoffee Torte biscuit base, toffee and banana bound in cream. Cheeses selected by Tom from Syndale farm. Cheeses as an extra course.
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Tea and coffee and mints included
Friday and Saturday Nights...£29.00 price includes meal and disco Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...£26.50 Stay over...£32.50 (included full english breakfast)
Places of interest – where to start!
Visitors have been drawn to our 'island' since the beginning of time. Early visitors settled and left their flint tools; Bronze-age visitors constructed and left round barrows. The Romans left us one of their most important military forts at Richborough, and St.Augustine landed here with Christianity. No longer an island,we're part of east Kent now, and much easier to move around on roads or cyclepaths, you'll find cathedrals, and castles in abundance.
We're the garden of England, too, and harvest not only from Kent's farms and orchards, but from our seashores, where the 'Dover Sole' and Whitstable oyster' are found.
Within walking distance are Margate, traditional seaside fun and a developing artists quarter in the old town; Dickensian Broadstairs; the caves – over 1000 years old, once a secret place of worship and a smuggling haunt – and the extraordinary Shell Grotto, an underground cavern covered with intricate shell mosaics and impossible to date.
