Rooms at The Mermaid Inn …
Family
The rooms have:
- Bathroom ensuite – bath / hand held shower
- Beverage tray including bottled water
- Antique furniture
- Sloping ceilings and flooring
- Exposed beams
- Free Wi-Fi
- Bathroom products
- Room Service
Each room is totally individual. Please look on the website for more detail about each of the rooms, with photographs, to ensure you have the right room for you and your family, and you enjoy your Mermaid experience.
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Alexandra
Your Room is named after a daughter of the owner Judith Blincow, owner since 1993 and employee since 1983. A Four Poster Bed – A Single Bed – Antique furniture – Beamed ceiling – Wattle and daub walls – Latticed windows – Views over Rye Welcome to the unique Mermaid…
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Hawkhurst Suite
Your Room, Named after the infamous ‘Hawkhurst Gang’. A ‘land gang’ who, numbering some 600 men ruled the whole Marsh area smuggling contraband and distributing it. This room was also a ‘look out’ room. – A Double Bed – A Single Bed in an adjoining room – Antique furniture – Beamed ceiling – Wattle and…
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Crow’s Nest
Your Room, as the name suggests sits high up in The Mermaid inn this was a view point and ‘look out’ onto Mermaid Street. The Mermaid Inn had a strong connection with the notorious Hawkhurst Gang which used the premises during the 1730s and 1740s. – A Double Bed – Two Single Beds in adjacent…
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Tudor Rose
Your Room is named the ‘Tudor Rose’, a reference to a period of time when Rye was part of the Cinque Ports Confederation and a bastion against invasion of the Channel Coast. Queen Elizabeth I gave the town the right to use the title “Rye Royal” following a visit in 1573. Today at the Quayside…
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The Nutcracker Suite
Your room ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ – take care, low beams! A feature is the escape route of Priests and Smugglers (now in the bathroom, but with no access). There are also ‘look out’ windows to Mermaid Passage and to the rear of the Inn. – A Double Bed – A Single Bed – Two Single…
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Dr Syn’s Bed Chamber
The ‘Dr Syn’s Bedchamber’ is named after Dr Syn, the fictitious character of the author Russell Thorndike, but based on the factual ‘Hawkhurst’ smuggling gang of 600 men. The vicar of Dymchurch, Dr Syn, was portrayed by George Arliss in a 1937 feature film and Patrick McGoohan in a 1960’s Walt Disney version. Russell Thorndike…