The Clifton

This hotel is located just by the Shanklin beach and it’s handy for the Shanklin railway station. The staff is really friendly and breakfast is pretty good. More importantly, the room is cozy and comfy with beautiful seaside views. Highly recommend.

I found the Clifton Hotel to have positives and negatives. It's position on top of the cliff in Shanklin is very good. As was the excellent breakfast. The lounge,bar and outside arras were also good Negatives. It appears that our luxury room was adjacent to a doss house in a somewhat delapidated state. There is no lift. So if you fancy hauling your cases upstairs? The view to the rear of the hotel is none existant. You couldn't eat in your room. For me the bar menu was limited to basket meals. Also if you didn't want to drink the wine in the fridge they removed the wine glasses??? Would l stay at the Clifton again. Yes l would. But l would go for a room with a view to the front of the hotel. Take a room on a lower floor and ignore the no eating rule in the room imposed by the staff. I'd also take my own wine glasses

We stayed at The Clifton for 5 nights in a wonderful room overlooking the sea. The room had everything we needed with plenty of space and storage and amazing views. The breakfast was delicious with lots of choice ( and the most delicious marmalade ever). We ate in the hotel every evening as we had been out exploring all day. There is a good range of light meals which was more than enough for us. Everything was very accessible and in easy walking distance but there is also a shuttle bus that takes you around Shanklin ( in the Summer only I think). We managed to see most of the island using the buses which were very reliable. We will definitely return to The Clifton. We were made to feel very welcome and nothing was too much trouble.