Located next to the harbour of the increasingly popular and growing seaside town of Folkestone in Kent, The Grand Burstin Hotel has build up an alleged reputation of the “worst” hotel in Kent and all of England. Built as a Victorian-era hotel in the 1840s, the building originally known as the Royal Pavilion Hotel would prove to be a troubled venture for a number of years, switching hands to Motyl Burstin after World War 2 and becoming a popular location to stay for British families during the years of Folkestone’s busy ferry demand. The fate of The Grand Burstin would begin to falter with the inventio of the Eurotunnel, taking customers away and eventually stopping all ferries leaving Folkestone by 2001, leaving the husk, ferry shaped build of the Grand Burstin Hotel to gradually lose customers and fall into disrepair. Nowadays, the hotel often ranks high in listings for one of the worst hotels in all of England, however recent years have shown a clear desire to rebuild this reputation.
