Starting at Dartford, by the tunnel and M25 junction, there is one of the best Hotels in Kent - Rowhill Grange. Lullingstone Roman Villa and Lullingstone castle are near at hand, as is Brands Hatch racetrack with the comfortable Brands Hatch Place Hotel, one of the HandPicked stable. Travelling East along the A2 brings us to the Medway Towns, of which Chatham is the biggest. It was home to British warship manufacture for 400 years and this is chronicled in the Historic Dockyard. Sittingbourne sits on the old A2 and boasts the fine Hempstead House Hotel with its Lakes restaurant. Minster on the Isle of Sheppey has one of Britain’s oldest Christian churches, the Abbey, dating back to 674 AD, with fine Saxon stonework and brasses.
Faversham is the beginning of rural North Kent and has the well known hotel: Read’s – really an acclaimed restaurant with six rooms. Continuing along the coast we reach Whitstable, famous for its oysters, which can be sampled at the Continental Hotel or at The Sportsman restaurant in Seasalter. Reculver’s twin towers, one the remains of a Norman church and the other of a Roman fort, serve still as a guide for shipping. Continuing along the North Coast, we reach Westgate-on-Sea and Margate on the Isle of Thanet. Margate has been called the Blackpool of the South. because of its sedate beaches and wild funfair Dreamland. Between Margate and Ramsgate, there is the Fayreness Hotel, next to the North Foreland Golf Club, in a fine position overlooking the Channel and 
one of the most spectacularly located Hotels in Kent. Nearby Broadstairs has Bleak House, where Charles Dickens wrote his novel of the same name. Nearby is the yachting centre Ramsgate, enjoying something of a revival, with one of the quirkier townhouse Hotels in Kent, the Royal Harbour.