The Four Seasons B&B: Hythe and the surrounding area

There is a wide choice of restaurants for evening meals within a few minutes drive;
Cuisine choices include traditional English, Indian, Italian, Chinese, Mediterranean and of course, fish and chips!
The Forest Home pub restaurant is very popular for good food and drinks and is just a short walk from the Four Seasons.
There is a local convenience supermarket store just two doors along the road. Here you will find a sub Post Office, ATM cash machine (indoor), provisions, newspapers, wine, beer and most other household items.
Hythe centre is about a mile away and has a wide range of interesting shops. There is also a large pleasure craft marina. You are free to walk around the marina - there are seats with superb views up and down Southampton Water where there are always ships and yachts coming and going. The liners Arcadia and Queen Mary 2 regularly berth here.
The Hythe Ferry is an experience not to be missed; it provides a short, half hourly service across the river. The ferry berths at the end of a long pier on the Hythe side. You are transported from the quayside along the pier to the ferry on an ancient narrow gauge railway. The ferry provides a quick, easy and cheap way of visiting the centre of Southampton and the West Quay shopping mall. See the Ferry website here.
The New Forest National Park is just a mile or so to the west. The National Motor Museum with its famous collection of over 300 old vehicles can be found in Beaulieu (3 miles). Just south of Beaulieu on Beaulieu River is Bucklers Hard, where Nelson's flagship Agamemnon was built centuries ago. There is a visitor centre and museum here and the Hotel serves good food and ale.
Not far from Beaulieu and well worth a day out is Exbury Gardens with its famous collection of flowering shrubs. Just south of Exbury is Lepe Country Park - with a great children's playground and a snack bar. The beach here is a particularly good place to watch all kinds of sea birds.
Calshot Spit is just a few miles south of the Four Seasons. The spit marks the point where Southampton Water meets the Solent on the western side. There is a sports activity centre here which includes some awesome indoor climbing walls. Calshot Castle can be visited during the summer months. There is long shingle beach at Calshot and fine views across the Solent to the Isle of Wight. This is a great place to watch yacht racing in the Solent.