The Totland Bay Hotel

A Memory of Totland Bay.

We stayed here in the mid 1960s with our large family,6 of us, housed in one room (from my father's memory). Our cousins, Aunt and grandmother stayed in another room, 5 in all. I can remember holiday camp style entertainments and the seven of us cousins (up to the age of 9 or 10) being garbed in green crepe paper for the fancy dress, as seven peas in a pod!
From a recent stay on the island I understand that the hotel was demolished in 1972, after not meeting Fire Regulations, probably not surprising for such a Victorian pile. There are now in the order of 40 flats on the site, Aman Court, named after the original driving force behind the Totland Bay Hotel and Pier Company.