Premier Inn Isle of Wight Sandown - Seafront

Checked in and the staff was great, very friendly guy named Harley had a smile on his face and made sure we was happy with our rooms and had all we needed for our stay . My room was Comfortable with a great sea view , would definitely stay again.

My colleague and I had a lovely experience at this location. The Atmosphere was beautiful, every morning we had breakfast and sat next to the window and had a wonderful view of the beach. On check in Harley and Aaron were polite, professional and courteous and were able to answer all questions we had regards not only our booking but the local area. We were fortunate enough to have beach facing rooms which afforded us fantastic views of the bay.

Clean and tidy room, friendly staff and a great bar and restaurant, has a great atmosphere, the food is absolutely great

Superb location, very clean, very friendly receptionist. Room great as always and what a view, you won’t get any better. Breakfast great. Only thing I wish when you book a sea view room you could open a window just a bit as would love to drift off to the sound of the sea. Definitely be back thank you.

Great hotel with a great location! The perfect budget option for a stay on the Isle of Wight. Restaurant adjoins the hotel so is handy for quick bites and meals which are brilliant!

We are staying 2 nite isle of weight sandom hotel manager Waqar give us wonderful service
We are very happy with his service
Thanks

I stayed here before and rebooked based on that experience but that was a mistake. On the positive side the front of house were great, the bedrooms and bathrooms are spacious and clean but where it falls down is food and drink. The breakfast used to be great but the bar and kitchen are now run by another company. The bar closed at 9.30pm and the breakfast was not up to the standard you might expect as a thyme restaurant in other Premier inns. The hot food ran out, as did butter (waiting on a delivery), 1 working toaster for all guests, bins were overflowing. Next time I consider booking a Premier inn I will check if they have outsourced their bar and restaurant.

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We have stayed at this Premier Inn a number of times. All the staff are so helpful and are happy to meet any needs we have. Danielle and Emily on reception are always so friendly and happy to help with booking the restaurant or local information. The room is, as always, comfortable, clean and well appointed. The telly has limited channels, but enough for a few hours before bed. The wi-fi is stable and free and works well enough to watch apps on my kindle. Thank you again for a lovely stay. We hope to see you again soon.

Stayed at hotel loads of times very clean staff fantastic great location would I stay again answer is yes be aware Premier doesn't own restaurant now so food isn't nowhere as good now as it was but plenty of places to eat outside and they don't do meal deal witch I think they have lost out on as people use to pay for and they didn't get up for bar okay but not popular brands

Highly recommended, friendly staff in every department.
Room clean warm & cosy.
Food was excellent.
Great value for money.

Great Location seafront Parking on the street available (overnight stay 6pm to 10am £2) but you can get 20% discount from Premier inn for parking all over Isle of wight. Big thanks staff WAQAR for assistance
You can choose a room with sea view
QUIET
Our room is fantastic
cleanliness 10/10
you can adjust heating and cooling temperature
Toilet with bathtub with shower system
given 2 towels and 1 face towel
No Bathrobes
Queen size bed (2 pillows only) with extra duvet and sofa on the side near window
Television and lamps
Downside
Poor signal inside room
Slow Wifi
2 pillows only

unlimited breakfast buffet was great for £10 pound each from 7-10:30am

you can have other choices of food after 10:30am on there BAR.. (FOOD 4/10)
Not recommendable for me had Mixed Grill (requested for well done steak) turned out other foods where overdone (sausages, chicken, gamon and rump steak TOUGH! and hard to slice even the chicken and gammon NOT TENDER gammon TOO SALTY for my taste (not great value for the price paid) but shoutout to the young lad (wasn’t able to get his name) who attended to us, he was very accomodating and courteous.

We arrived after 8pm, and a young lady came in from 'going for a puff' to book us in. She gave a disinterested welcome, whilst talking to a colleague. The lift was grubby and sticky and the hallways were grimy.
The room (106) sits next to the laundry. You are rocked to sleep by the sound of tumble drying and the fast spin cycle. The air conditioning vents are on the roof outside the sealed window, which is of little consequence, as the a/c was broken. This made the room stuffy and uncomfortable. The view is of a wall and rear neighbouring gardens.
Hallway doors slam so hard that the bedroom door rattled but the terrible hygiene standards of the room surpassed all these issues.
The toilet seat was broken and urine stained the wall. The sink plug was full of hair and the soap dispensers dirty, the mirror - broken at the bottom, the bath handles - filthy along with the overflow pipe, the badly dented bin and the skirting boards. The door was covered in grim and the handles sticky.
The bedroom was no better. The skirting boards were dirty and scuffed, the chair was stained, the spare bed had springs sticking out of the dirty cover. The wardrobe was broken at the base. The television was pixelated and Channel 4 is not available. The bed sheets just reached the sides of the bed and were tatty. Under the bed, we found several different types of sweet wrappers from previous guests, along with copious amounts of fluff and dirt.The door stop was hanging off the wall and the carpet was discoloured and dirty.
I have used many Premier Inns, both for work and privately. This is by far the worst one. Recently we visited Lewes and Gatwick, which were both clean and the staff friendly. The staff at Sandown, never acknowledged us once during our three night stay. Each cheery 'good morning' totally ignored by the bored looking staff.
I usually use Premier as I find them reliable and friendly. Not so this one. I will book the Travel Lodge in Ryde on future visits to the Island.
As a footnote, The Isle of Wight is delightful for walking and we found the local people very friendly and kind. Sandown is like a lot of the UK and needs a little TLC but the seafront is stunning and it is worth a visit. From our experience, just don't stay at the Premier Inn.
I have left this review twice before and it has not been posted on Tripadvisor.

Great location and fantastic views, payable parking outside, very friendly staff. Good restaurant with bar and cafes and restaurants close by too.

We were several times at this Hotel in the last years. We booked the room well in advance in September 2025 for September 2026. We got a room at the back with a beautiful look against the cliffstones. When we dicussed this with the manager on duty he said we should booked a romm with a view. There is no twin room with a view to book on the website. From former experience there was no need to specifiy. So we were ask for an additional fee to change to a room "with a view". After some dicussion we were graciously given such a room with seaview. Four nights for nearly GBP 600 and you have to look at a stone wall with no view. Maybe it was because we were not UK Residents.

Great sea views from the front facing rooms. Very clean premises. Friendly and helpful staff, Waqar in particular was so helpful in changing our room to a sea facing room (my error when booking) and allowing us to check in half an hour early. He is a great asset to the company at this site. The restaurant/bar below, whilst an independent, is also very good and useful that you do not have to go outside to enter it in bad weather. We did not have a car but I understand this Premier Inn has no car park although there is paid parking right outside if you can get a space and as it is on the sea front and the Isle of Wight is very hilly you have to climb a steep hill to access the town. Not an issue for us. One of the nicer Premier Inns we have stayed in. The only downside is that you cannot open the windows and it was impossible to regulate the temperature of the room. Sadly Sandown itself does seem to have deteriorated a lot since we came several years ago (much the same as many other towns on the mainland) but the pier amusements were very good and we had a nice meal with great service in the Chinese restaurant on the High Street. Getting around the Isle of Wight on the buses is very easy and a pleasant way to travel without the hassle of driving yourself.

It would have been a 4 out of 5 due to there being no parking as views from the sea view rooms were extremely good and couldn’t fault anything. However on last full day there i needed towels changing so gave my room number to reception about 8.30 for room to be cleaned as had to do before 12. On returning to my room about 5pm this hadn’t been done and cleaning staff had finished. Breakfast really good next door in the bar.

I stay in maybe 20 Premier Inns a year and don’t really bother to review them because they’re usually all the same. Pretty much. I like the anonymity and the uniform customer service.
I wasn’t a fan of this one though. It wasn’t as friendly at check-in, even though it was off-season I was given a really awful room facing a ratty alleyway.
But the strangest aspect was that this just seemed to have a really nosey attitude from staff. Every time upon entering there was a feeling that all heads swung towards the automatic door, the room key was needed just to move around the ground floor communal areas and there was a feeling that the staff were half expecting some kind of invasion, or undesirables entering their realm.
I was traveling alone, but still just picked up a nosey attitude from staff as I came and went during the day - that I’ve never had at any other Premier Inn.
Also, as mentioned, sea view rooms should be prioritised if the hotel is nowhere near full. WiFi is terrible, as was phone signal in my dark dingey room.
Didn’t have the food as there are better options in the area.

The room was good, well maintained. Could not open window and had to rely on Aircon. Went home a day early with suspected legonellas. Aircon unit dried up the air and effected my asthma. Need natural air flow.

This was our 3rd visit to this particular hotel & we had a lovely stay. Staff were polite, friendly & helpful. The only issue we had was that the WiFi was poor & I couldn't get a 4G signal on my phone until I walked outside the hotel. However, that didn't detract from enjoying our stay here. We are already thinking about another visit in December.