Best Western The Connaught Hotel is a top class, AAA three-star and Rosette Hotel and has recently been awarded a Silver Plaque by Green Tourism for Business and Connoisseur status by Best Western. This elegant hotel is centrally located on the West Cliff in an acre of its own grounds with free private parking for 66 cars and is just five minutes walk to the town centre, the BIC, Pavilion and Bournemouth Pier. Just three minutes walk away are Bournemouth's award winning, golden, sandy beaches. The hotel has 51 Standard and Superior en-suite bedrooms, four executive rooms and one junior suite - some with a private balcony or terrace and all tastefully decorated. Blakes, a fashionable Bournemouth restaurant, has been awarded an AA Rosette for fine dining and includes a lounge bar with an open fire-place and conservatory bar. Our hotel has excellent ground floor conference venue and meeting facilities with bright ground floor function rooms and easy access for all. Free WIFI is available throughout the hotel and free secure broadband in the conference suites. Our hotel is fully licensed for civil weddings. The hotel's leisure club, which is free to all guests, includes an 18 meter indoor swimming pool, spa pool, sauna, steam room, massage room, a fully equipped gymnasium and separate CV suite.

·From: East A3 or M3 to M27. Follow signs to Bournemouth, take BIC & town centre west to the the Best Western The Connaught Hotel. ·From: West A35 to Poole. Follow signs to Bournemouth, take BIC & town centre west to the Best Western The Connaught Hotel.