Antelope Hotel

You're walking down Poole's High Street and you spot the Antelope—red brick, proper old-school, the kind of place that's been pulling pints since before anyone cared about craft beer. It's a Greene King inn, so you know what you're getting: reliable, unfussy, the sort of local where regulars actually sit at the bar. The rooms upstairs are clean and straightforward, nothing fancy, but that's rather the point. It's a functional base if you're staying over, though honestly most people come for the pub side of things—decent ales, standard food, and that particular kind of comfort only a centuries-old boozer can offer.