England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Ramsgate
Ramsgate is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 42,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Ramsgate, with about 164 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 2
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- SEN55 km · London Southend Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Ramsgate
Ramsgate is a seaside port town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in eastern Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century.
Ramsgate forms part of the Isle of Thanet and is closely associated with its neighbouring towns of Broadstairs and Margate. The town's heyday was the Regency and Victorian eras when the well-heeled would holiday in the town, savouring its genteel culture. Nowadays the town remains a popular destination and has much to offer visitors. Ramsgate exists in an area that has been crucial to British history. Just down the road at Richborough is the site of the Claudian Invasion of 43 AD and evidence of Roman settlement in Ramsgate was found in the 19th century.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Ramsgate
See
- The Royal Harbour
- The Maritime Museum
- The Smeaton Dry Dock
- Empire Steam Tug "Cervia"
- The Main Sands
- Ramsgate Tunnels
- Van Gogh, Elizabeth Fry and Karl Marx
- Nelson/Wellington Crescent
- The Customs House
- Military Road
- Sailor's Church and Home for Smackboys
- Chatham House Grammar School
Do
There are lots of things to do in Ramsgate such as walking, water sports, land-based fun and cycling. Take a stroll around Ramsgate's Royal Harbour and enjoy the thriving cafe culture alongside the marina.
- Ramsgate Arts Festival
- Pegwell Bay Coastal Park and Kent Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
- Government Acre
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Ramsgate
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Ramsgate Seafront hotel | 82 | 4.1/5 2,137 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Margate Westwood hotel | 82 | 4.1/5 887 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Ramsgate
19 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| The Granville Hotel | 1869 | 1.8 km |
| Holiday Inn Express | 6.1 km | |
| Royal Albion Hotel | 3.1 km | |
| Sir Stanley Gray | 2.1 km | |
| The Bell Inn | 6.3 km | |
| The Crown Hotel | 1.7 km | |
| Albion House | 1.8 km | |
| Carramore Residential Hotel | 1.5 km | |
| Copperfields Vegetarian Guest House | 2.9 km | |
| Former Alexandra Hotel | 1.8 km | |
| Granville Terrace St Clu Hotel | 1.9 km | |
| Honeysuckle Inn | 1.6 km | |
| Hotel St Placids And Railed Area | 1.8 km | |
| The Castle Hotel | 1.8 km | |
| The Eagle Inn | 1.1 km | |
| The Pegwell Bay Hotel | 2.0 km | |
| The Regency Hotel | 1.8 km | |
| The Sylvan Hotel | 1.0 km | |
| Yarrow Hotel | 2.4 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Ramsgate
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Ramsgate are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; November is the wettest, with about 94 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Ramsgate: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Southend Airport (SEN), about 55 km from the city centre in a straight line; London City Airport (LCY, 95 km) and London Stansted Airport (STN, 101 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
Regular buses run by Stagecoach offer easy access to most parts of the Isle of Thanet. The Thanet Loop service (on average every 10 minutes from Ramsgate Harbour) is the most reliable and its route takes in the harbour, the train station, Westwood Shopping Centre and the other towns of Thanet. The Thanet Star service visits the more suburban parts of Ramsgate and Thanet. Regular buses serve the city of Canterbury (services 8 and 9), but the Thanet Breeze service to and from Canterbury does not extend to Ramsgate - it only goes as far as Broadstairs.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
SEN · London Southend Airport
LCY · London City Airport
STN · London Stansted Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Ramsgate
Eat
Ramsgate offers some of the best dining in the South East of England, with several well-regarded restaurants situated around the picturesque harbour including the renowned Surin Restaurant, Alexandra Ristorante and young businesses such as Eddie Gilberts and Age & Sons which have built up formidable reputations in a very short amount of time.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Ramsgate
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 2 places
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Questions
Ramsgate: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Ramsgate?
By published guest score: Travelodge Ramsgate Seafront (4.1 / 5 · 2,137 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Margate Westwood (4.1 / 5 · 887 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Ramsgate?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Ramsgate are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; November is the wettest, with about 94 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Ramsgate?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Southend Airport (SEN), about 55 km from the city centre in a straight line; London City Airport (LCY, 95 km) and London Stansted Airport (STN, 101 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Ramsgate?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Ramsgate
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.