Marine hotel

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  • The Royal Marine Hotel: a hotel in Dún Laoghaire (Kingstown), Dublin → in 1821 George IV visited Dún Laoghaire, after which it was renamed Kingstown, but the Royal Marine Hotel only opened in 1863 (and its predecessor Hayes Royal Hotel in 1828)
  • The Marine Hotel: a hotel in Selsey, near Chichester → there is a full-page advertisement for it on page 6 of A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Bognor, Chichester, Selsey, Goodwood, Hayling Island, Midhurst, Arundel, Amberley, Petworth, Etc. (London, Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., 1922-1923), the guidebook which describes the graveyard of Sidlesham Church → the interred include the Ankers = anchors, another marine allusion
  • Earwig Hotel ('hotel' being the general term for a structure that is supposed to attract insects, this is the colloquial name of the flowerpot earwig trap used by HCE in this scene)