Hill Lodge Hotel
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.31 miles from Friars Meadow, River Stour (Good water quality)
Sudbury
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Places to Stay by the Beach in Suffolk
There is a special smugness to walking to the beach while everyone else queues for the car park. These Suffolk stays have direct beach access — buckets down, sand in minutes.
The Thorn
✓ Beach Access
✓ Restaurant with rooms in a historic coaching inn built in 1723
🏖️ 0.59 miles from Manningtree Beach, Stour Estuary (Good water quality)
Mistley
North Farm Lodge
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.97 miles from Brightlingsea (Excellent water quality)
Mersea Island, East Anglia
Sleeps 4
£671 per break
Check availability
Pakefield Holiday Park
✓ Beach Access
✓ Clifftop setting with sea views near Lowestoft beach
🏖️ 1.29 miles from Lowestoft (South of Claremont Pier) (Good water quality)
Lowestoft
Stonar Hotel
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.74 miles from Clacton Beach Martello Tower (Good water quality)
Clacton-on-Sea
Suffolk Sands
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.66 miles from Felixstowe South (Excellent water quality)
Felixstowe, East Anglia
Sleeps 6
£293 per break
Check availability
Chudleigh
✓ Beach Access
✓ Quiet, tree-lined street two minutes' walk from the seafront
🏖️ 0.73 miles from Clacton Beach Martello Tower (Good water quality)
Clacton-on-Sea
Dudley's Hotel
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.73 miles from Clacton Beach Martello Tower (Good water quality)
Clacton-on-Sea
The Sandrock Hotel
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.69 miles from Clacton Beach Martello Tower (Good water quality)
Clacton-on-Sea
Travelodge
✓ Beach Access
✓ Within easy reach of Clacton Pier and seafront gardens
🏖️ 0.8 miles from Clacton Beach Martello Tower (Good water quality)
Clacton-on-Sea
Walberswick Caravan Site
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.9 miles from Southwold The Denes (Excellent water quality)
Southwold
Peewit Caravan Park
✓ Beach Access
✓ Just 900 yards from Felixstowe's seafront
🏖️ 0.29 miles from Felixstowe South (Excellent water quality)
Felixstowe
The Langtry Hotel
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.78 miles from Clacton (Excellent water quality)
Clacton-on-Sea
Mersea Island Holiday Park
✓ Beach Access
✓ Direct access to the beach from the park
🏖️ 1.42 miles from Brightlingsea (Excellent water quality)
Suffolk
Low Farm
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.77 miles from River Deben Estuary, Waldringfield (Good water quality)
Aldeburgh
Angie's Beachside House
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.47 miles from Brightlingsea (Excellent water quality)
Clacton-on-Sea, East Anglia
Sleeps 4
£497 per break
Check availability
Curlew
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.49 miles from Brightlingsea (Excellent water quality)
Clacton-on-Sea, East Anglia
Sleeps 9
£971 per break
Check availability
Hotel Coco
✓ Beach Access
✓ Boutique hotel with newly refurbished rooms in Felixstowe
🏖️ 0.32 miles from Felixstowe North (Excellent water quality)
Felixstowe
Hillview Studio
✓ Beach Access
🏖️ 0.78 miles from Friars Meadow, River Stour (Good water quality)
Sudbury
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