The beach! Crabbing! Finding that dead catfish! These were the answers that rang out when, cruising home along the motorway, I asked our three girls what they had most enjoyed about our long weekend at the Bath House in Cromer, on the north Norfolk coast.
Situated right on the esplanade, halfway between the pier and the lifeboat museum, the iconic yellow Bath House used to be a spa for Victorian bathers before being turned into a hotel and pub. Today, it houses four airy two-bedroom flats. Ours is split over two floors and has been thoughtfully and beautifully restored – think “haute nauticalia”. When I spotted the swanky kitchen, Scandi sauna and vast crimson bath on cottages.com, after a day that I can only describe as frazzling, it looked like my salvation. Open space, big skies and plenty of sleep beckoned.
