Crowne Plaza Plymouth

Crowne Plaza Plymouth, the former Holiday Inn, is the big tower on the Hoe at the top of Armada Way. Its 211 rooms look over the Hoe and Plymouth Sound. There's a leisure club with a 15-metre indoor pool, gym, sauna and steam room, and a Marco Pierre White steakhouse on the penthouse floor. Parking on site costs £15 for 24 hours. It's a mainstream hotel, not a gay venue. The Swallow and Sappho's on Bretonside and OMG on the Barbican are the places to go for the city's small queer scene.