Esplanade Hotel

In the short story The Rajah's Emerald, the Esplanade Hotel is one of the two fashionable hotels in Kimpton-on-Sea. Grace stays there, as does Claud Sopworth and his sisters. James Bond felt excluded. After being persuaded by Grace to come to Kimpton-on-Sea, Grace had abandoned him to go to the Esplanade and left him to stay at a cheap boarding house. After that, James could not dine with Grace and her friends because she said his clothes weren't smart enough. When bathing by the beach, James could not use the private changing huts of the hotel which Grace and the Sopworths could us and was forced to join the crowds queueing for the public huts.