Food excellent superb rooms staff lovely cannot fault. I stay away a lot on business and its allways a pleasure to return to the Camelia more

The hotel has clearly been refurbished and is presented well. Indeed, our first impressions were high, as the hotel was easy to find, clean, spacious, and had paid attention to detail. However, the first diapointment was the fact that the room we were in was in an annex building next to the hotel. This meant going through a dark alley... more

We stayed at the Camelia for one night whilst we were visiting relatives in Southend on sea last weekend. What a surprise - the pictures on the website dont do it justice. We went for a sea front suite and had a spacious lounge and bedroom and all looked newly refurbed including the bathroom. We even had a little balconey... more

Stayed here for a match and we were put in an anex away from the hotel. Due to flight times, we checked in after midnight and were made to feel that we were putting the hotel out in doing this. Rooms old and very average, this is basically an upscale B&B. However, it is right on the sea-front, so the... more

Years ago we stayed here and thought we'd treat ourselves ... what a mistake. The car park with 200 spaces is a public car park which is not paved and full of potholes. The Family Room we had was not clean, the sink pipe poured dirty water all over the bathroom - the shower was mouldy, some of the pillow... more

Stayed two nights, breakfast superb, had dinner one evening was fantastic I had fresh local sea bass from the dish of the day. Stayed in a suite view was amazing own garden overlooking the beach and lounge very spacious. Staff were great nothing to much trouble. Can only highly reccomed the Camelia. more

We stayed at this hotel for the weekend when were in Southend to visit friends and were very pleasantly surprised. The hotel is literally overlooking a lovely quiet stretch of beach, about 10-15 minutes walk from the hustle and bustle of Southend. The hotel interiror is smart and there is a nice bar where you can have a drink looking... more

Had a standard room I think it had just been refurbished, was very nice. Breakfast superb, I sat and had bar snack overlooking sea in the evening was nice. It is on the front but near to town but out enough to be quite and peacfull more

Aww...what a lovely little hidden gem!! I want to stay again and again... My and my Fiancee paid £50 for this hotel through last minute (it costs £60 on the day we found out) as we both live with our parents and thought it'd be nice to out somewhere "cheap and cheerful" after a nice meal that we had booked... more