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The Grill at The Royal Yacht Hotel

A long standing Jersey favourite, The Grill is renowned for its simple yet exceptional offerings. Here diners can expect a perfectly cooked steak and an excellent glass of wine. There is no need to book, simply turn up and make yourself at home. You can find us tucked away on the ground floor of The Royal Yacht.

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Casual atmosphere and friendly service in contemporary surroundings. The ideal spot to enjoy a cocktail with friends 7 days a week. New in 2022, The Grill Lounge & Bar, is an extension of the iconic Grill restaurant. A local favourite and known for its great steak. Try one of our sharing steaks with friends; Chateaubriand, Tomahawk or Porterhouse or perhaps sample our signature dishes; Thai oysters, Wagyu burger or our classic mixed grill.

Looking for something more casual? Why not eat at the bar … and enjoy one of our classic cocktails to go with your meal.

We are open all year round.

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The royal yacht hotel & spa.

Modern luxury, situated in the heart of St. Helier. Located just a short walk from the bus station. With four restaurants, three bars, a luxury spa, 109 rooms ranging from silver to platinum and two luxurious penthouse suites featuring large Jacuzzis, lounging pods and spectacular views of the capital, you'll have all you need for a special stay.

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Best steak house on the island and great services, always with a smile! Fillet steak is getting smaller and smaller but quality remains the same.

Best place for steak on the island. Way better than Wildfire across the road! Great informal atmosphere too. Price is not that bad either as £22 for fillet actually gets you two good sized pieces. They always cook it right too, I have my steak blue and they actually get it right here. For wine, the £28 Fleurie (actually the cheapest red on the menu I think) is one of my favourite wines anywhere.

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The Royal Yacht

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About the royal yacht.

Situated in the heart of the bustling Saint Helier, The Royal Yacht provides guests with a memorable and unforgettable experience. The hotel boasts modern décor complete with a cosmopolitan flair. The hotel combines relaxation with luxury with its 4 on-site bars, award-winning Spa Sirene and 3 restaurants, guests are spoilt for choice when dining and can choose from The Grill, Zephyr and the award-winning Sirocco. The rooms at The Royal Yacht Hotel are tastefully decorated and provide a warm atmosphere. Rooms are complete with modern amenities such as tea and coffee making facilities, air conditioning and a mini bar. There are a range of hotel rooms that cater to everyone’s needs and provide stunning views of the harbour and surrounding areas. If you’re looking for something to do, there is plenty of attractions, bars and restaurants nearby and the hotel often throws on-site events for guests to enjoy.

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Only a 9 minute walk from the nearest beach, The Royal Yacht Hotel is well-placed in the capital of Saint Helier. There are a range of shops, restaurants and galleries within the immediate vicinity, there are also 2 stunning beaches within a 5-minute drive that guests can enjoy.

Address: Weighbridge, Saint Helier, Jersey, JE2 3NF

Rooms: The Royal Yacht

At The Royal Yacht, each room is tastefully decorated and finished to a high standard with modern amenities. There are a range of rooms to choose from, many complete with a balcony or terrace, that have views over St Helier’s Harbour or the museum’s charming courtyard. Guest can choose from Silver, Gold, Gold Deluxe, Platinum or Penthouse Suites. Rooms are available as doubles or twins. The rooms are furnished with modern facilities and luxuries such as air conditioning, 24-hour room service, free Wi-Fi, hairdryers, private bathrooms, tea and coffee making facilities, safety deposit boxes and a mini-bar.

Hotel Dining & Bars

The Royal Yacht Hotel has a range of on-site dining options for its guests. There are 3 delicious restaurants and 5 stylish bars for you to choose from during your stay. Sirocco is a contemporary restaurant that serves Australasian cuisine, Café Zephyr that boasts a large al fresco area and inventive dishes and The Grill, where you can enjoy timeless classics and a perfectly grilled steak. The on-site bars include The Drift, Little Drift, P.O.S.H Bar, Lazyjack and The Cabin, where guests can enjoy friendly service and a cocktail or two.

Hotel Entertainment/Recreation

The Royal Yacht Hotel is set in the vibrant capital of Saint Helier, the perfect area to enjoy what Jersey has to offer. The hotel is a short walk from Liberty Wharf, the pedestrianized shopping area of Jersey, where you can shop ‘til you drop and enjoy VAT-free pricing! There are also many nearby restaurants and bars for you to explore during your stay. On-site, you can enjoy a truly indulgent experience in the award-winning Spa Sirene. The Spa boasts a heated vitality pool, aromatherapy steam room, salt steam therapy, experience showers, ice cold bucket shower, reflexology foot basin and a Swedish sauna. There is also a hydrotherapy Jacuzzi and rest rooms complete with thermal couches.

Popular FAQ's About The Royal Yacht

Does the hotel have rooms with sea views.

No, the hotel is centrally located and does not have sea views, but rooms do have views of Saint Helier and the charming museum courtyard.

How close is the hotel from Jersey Airport?

The hotel is only 4.3 miles away from Jersey Airport and can be reached in a short 11 minute drive.

Can I park at the hotel?

No, parking is not available on-site.

What are the hotel’s check-in and check-out times?

At The Royal Yacht Hotel, check-in time starts from 3pm and has a check-out time of 12pm.

Does the hotel have restaurant or dining options?

Yes, The Royal Yacht Hotel boasts three on-site restaurants for guests to enjoy – The Grill, Zephyr and Sirocco.

Does the hotel have a swimming pool?

Yes, the hotel has a heated vitality pool for guests to enjoy.

What restaurants are near the hotel?

As the hotel is centrally located in Saint Helier, there are many dining options nearby. Some favourites include Jaipur Tandoori that serves authentic Indian cuisine, Seafish Café that offers some of the freshest seafood in Jersey and La Hacienda, infamous for its Mexican cuisine.

Does the hotel have WiFi?

Yes, the hotel offers free WIFI in all areas of the hotel.

The day Hitler’s flagship yacht docked in Hull

NOT THE DESTINATION HER OWNER HOPED FOR: Hitler’s flagship yacht Grille during her eight-day stay in Hull

Now & Then , a column by Angus Young

The story of Hitler’s luxury yacht Grille

Over two consecutive nights in May 1941 nearly 400 people were killed in what would prove to be the most devastating bombing raids experienced in Hull during the Second World War.

The Luftwaffe’s attacks on the city – and in particular its docks – were carried out as Germany’s military leaders continued to plan the invasion of Britain if a negotiated surrender could not be secured first.

The plan – known as Operation Sea Lion – envisaged a victorious Adolf Hitler sailing up the Thames before accepting the British government’s surrender in a ceremony in Whitehall.

However, the RAF’s success in the Battle of Britain would change German minds. Unable to establish air superiority, focus was switched to the Russian front and the invasion plans were shelved.

Ironically, the only significant German military hardware to ever reach Britain intact was the vessel Hitler intended to be on during that triumphant Thames cruise. Less than two years after the end of the war, she limped into Hull’s Alexandra Dock under tow in what must have been a bittersweet moment for those who witnessed it. This is the story of Grille .

Built in 1935 for the Kriegsmarine, the 3,490-tonne steam ship was designed as both a flagship state yacht for Hitler and other senior figures in the Nazi regime and as an auxiliary minelayer complete with three naval guns and eight anti-aircraft guns. The vessel was also initially fitted with experimental high-pressure steam turbines and a boiler system intended to be tested in sea trials before being installed in new warships.

Ultimately, the boilers could not provide the manoeuvrability required by destroyers and the idea was shelved, leaving Grille with a power source which was unique but technically complex to operate.

With a crew of 248, she was the largest vessel of its kind in the world and the ceremonial flagship of Hitler’s naval forces. In this role, she carried the German state delegation to the coronation of King George VI in 1937, visiting Southampton and Spithead as part of the voyage.

Hitler himself made frequent use of Grille , often spending up to four nights onboard during short cruises despite having a reported aversion to being at sea. The ship was used to entertain VIP guests, including Mussolini and foreign ambassadors, as well as reviewing the growing Nazi fleet in the pre-war years.

At Hitler’s insistence, Grille’s hull was painted white with gold trim on the bow and stern while the funnel was bright yellow. He referred to her as ‘The White Swan of the Baltic’ while the crew wore white uniforms.

POWER: The commanding officer’s room aboard Grille

A myth would later develop around the ship’s supposedly luxurious fittings and fixtures, perhaps fuelled by the fact that famous German architect Fritz Breuhaus designed its interior having previously worked on the luxury liner Bremen and the interior of the ill-fated airship Hindenburg .

The reality was somewhat different. While the ship did feature a small number of well-appointed cabins the size of small hotel suites as well as rooms for up to 35 guests, it was also equipped for military use. When war broke out she was deployed as a minelayer and patrol vessel in the Baltic Sea tasked with spotting enemy merchant ships and notifying nearby U-boats.

Grille later switched to minelaying in the North Sea as an early part of Operation Sea Lion, providing defensive cover in anticipation of a counter-attack by British naval forces.

In 1942 her role changed again when she was taken out of frontline military service to become the floating headquarters of the commander of German naval forces in occupied Norway. By then, her distinctive colour scheme had been changed to wartime grey.

Germany’s U-boat attacks were controlled from her dining room. Later, with the war entering its final stages, Grand Admiral Karl Donitz directed the operations of the entire navy from the same saloon.

By then 400 men were crammed onboard operating nearly 200 high-powered radio transmitters and receivers. The ship even had its own purpose-built automated telephone exchange with direct lines to Hitler’s headquarters in Berlin.

Reports suggest Donitz formally announced the death of Hitler on the deck of Grille on May 1, 1945, and, acting on the late Fuhrer's orders, also announced he had assumed leadership of Germany and its fighting forces. What is known for certain is that on May 17 following the German surrender a British Navy boarding party took command of Grille to arrange an escorted passage of five surface vessels and 15 U-boats to Scotland.

With both engines not working having been deliberately sabotaged before the surrender and only one boiler in operation, Grille was towed to Rosyth with British officers commanding her German crew. She was later towed to Hartlepool and berthed in a coal dock. A year later the Admiralty put her up for sale.

By then, Grille had become a visitor attraction. At a charge of a shilling for adults and sixpence for children, half-hour tours of the vessel were arranged with proceeds being split between the local Sea Cadets and the Mission to Seamen.

Those hoping for a glimpse of Nazi-era luxury were left disappointed. Local reporter Brian Belshaw wrote: “On the door of a cabin not more than a few yards away from the suite which Hitler occupied there is a large white label. On it is written: ‘Leading Stoker Evans’.

ADVANCED: British sailors in the ship's all-electric galley

“I have never met Leading Stoker Evans but I know how he felt when he boarded Grille as one of her British prize crew. I know how he made the best of those remarkable circumstances and with what satisfaction he planted that boldly written proclamation on the door which might have been opened by one of Hitler’s special guests – perhaps even at this moment adjusting his earphone at Nuremberg.

“That is Grille today. Once she was as German as the sign of the Swastika but the inimitable British matelot has left his mark. Any sinister glamour she ever had is gone.”

Belshaw found Hitler’s cabin courtesy of another hand-written label on paper headed On His Majesty’s Service. Inside was “a sound serviceable suite of furniture, a nice desk and a modest set of concealed lighting, but not much more.” Elsewhere, a cream piano caught his eye in the commanding officer’s cabin while the ship’s own barber shop retained its original chair.

Grille’s stay in Hartlepool ended in March 1947 when she set sail for Gibraltar en route for Genoa in Italy under the new ownership of a Lebanese textile tycoon who had reportedly paid £357,000 to use it as his own private yacht.

It had taken nine months to carry out necessary repairs to get Grille seaworthy again but the ship continued to suffer mechanical problems and an oil fire in its engine room shortly after leaving the port put one of its two engines out of action. She was towed back to Hartlepool for repairs before setting off again, only to experience more engine problems off Spurn Point where a call for assistance was made.

A tug from Hull located Grille and towed her into port where the fault with her oil-fired boiler system was diagnosed – she was loaded with the wrong grade of oil because of a mistake in translating the ship’s instruction manuals written in German.

An account of the mix-up was given in a newspaper interview in 1993 by engineer Ray Doyle, who carried out some of the repairs in Hartlepool before sailing on the voyage.

He recalled: “As on all ships, there was quite a library of books and drawings supplied by the builders covering all the electrical circuits, all the pipework which is colour-coded, the position of all tanks and the capacity for fuel oil, lubricating oil, fresh water, distilled water and ballast tanks.

“All the nameplates on the main and auxiliary switchboards, motor pumps and starters were engraved in beautiful German Gothic-style lettering so we employed an interpreter with the idea of getting all the hundreds of nameplates re-made in English. Then, the millionaire from Tripoli who eventually bought the ship gave explicit instructions that nothing had to be changed, not even the nameplates.

“This made our work almost impossible until the interpreter came up with what he thought was a brilliant idea. He bought hundreds of tie-on luggage labels and had the required instructions printed on them in English. Then he tied the labels onto everything in the engine and boiler rooms. The luggage labels made the engine room look like a decorated Christmas tree.”

EYE-CATCHING: Grille in Hartlepool. Picture credit: Derek Hinds / Tom Illingworth

Doyle revealed the failure to accurately translate one of the German instruction manuals led to the wrong fuel oil being ordered before setting off. Instead of using a light grade for the unique specially-designed boilers, a heavier grade normally used in British ships was taken onboard.

The engineer recalled: “The boilers were flashed up resulting in a smoke-screen as from a destroyer in wartime.” The burning oil triggered huge belching plumes of black smoke from the funnel and a small fire in the engine room.

With supplies of the correct oil available in Hull, Grille was towed into Alexandra Dock under the direction of Humber Pilot Vince Howard who took the wheel to ensure she did not come to grief on the estuary’s sandbanks.

Vince had been at sea since he was 16, initially in the Merchant Navy before being called up for service in the Royal Navy the week before the Second World War started, having become a Humber Pilot four years earlier.

His own wartime career included minesweeping in the Channel and the Suez Canal and radar duties onboard HMS Orion during the Battle of Cape Matapan off the coast Greece in 1941 when Allied naval forces comprehensively defeated the Italian Navy. On D-Day he was on a gunboat supporting the landings by the Green Howards and the East Yorkshire Regiment and later served as second in command of HMS Lamont , a landing ship loaned to the Australian Navy transporting thousands of soldiers up and down the Pacific in more than 20 operations against the Japanese.

His service in the Royal Navy was extended until April 1946 when he resumed his work as a Humber Pilot. Having safely berthed Grille in Alexandra Dock, Vince remained onboard as arrangements were made to discharge the engine fuel into a waiting barge and re-fill the tanks with the correct grade at one of the jetties at nearby Saltend. He would later regale regulars at the Crown and Anchor pub in Elstronwick he took on after his 43-year career at sea with tales of him sleeping in Eva Braun’s bed during Grille’s stay in Hull.

In fact, the boudoir supposedly used by Hitler’s mistress was another of the colourful myths about the ship’s pre-war days. While the vessel boasted an exact duplicate of Hitler’s suite, there is no official record of Braun ever having been onboard.

Overall, Grille spent eight days in Hull with the fuel bunkering operation at Saltend disrupted by poor weather. She eventually arrived in Genoa nearly two months later and was still under tow.

Engineer Doyle’s account of the remainder of the voyage records a catalogue of mechanical problems including further boiler and engine failures, shortages of drinking water and food, being battered by severe storms and a decision by most of the crew on stopping in Lisbon to accept an offer by the owner to pay for their immediate passage home.

Grille’s days as a privately-owned luxury yacht didn’t last long. By 1949 the ship sailed into New York and was sold for scrap to the North American Smelting and Refining Company two years later. Her final voyage to a scrapyard on the Delaware River was again under tow with the recovered metal being re-used in manufacturing items for America’s military. However some items were removed and sold to eagle-eyed souvenir hunters, including a white porcelain toilet bowl which ended up in a car repair garage in New Jersey.

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Modern luxury, in the heart of jersey, channel islands, award-winning spa, to feel pampered from head to toe, three restaurants, locally popular and full of island flavour, sophisticated bars, to relax and unwind in, for any occasion you can imagine..., celebrating special moments.

Set in the heart of vibrant St Helier, at The Royal Yacht, a truly memorable experience awaits you. Modern decor with a cosmopolitan flair flows throughout the hotel, restaurants, and spa, complemented by tasteful nautical elements. Whether you are celebrating something special, catching up with friends over lunch or planning a weekend getaway. With an award-winning spa and a choice of three restaurants and bars, there really is something for everyone.

Rooms 

All rooms are decorated and finished to a high standard with a warm modern style and facilities. Many hotel rooms have a balcony or terrace and some have views over Jersey's St Helier harbour or charming museum courtyard.

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You’re spoilt for choice when it comes to dining at The Royal Yacht. Choose from our award winning sophisticated Sirocco, brasserie style Zephyr or simple chargrilled classics at The Grill. Your gastronomic adventure awaits.

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A truly indulgent experience awaits you at our award-winning Spa Sirène. Relax and unwind in our beautiful surroundings or enjoy a luxurious treatment by one of our expert therapists.

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