Kitchen chairs for beach house

[Lisa Marie]

Hi, my beach house STR needs some replacement kitchen chairs. When I bought the house, all the furnishing came with the house so I didn't have to do anything. Now, a couple of years later, several of the chairs are banged up pretty bad and need to be replaced. Those are clear plastic chairs -- very good looking, and because it doesn't have any upholstery, super easy to clean. I can understand why the previous owner bought them.

Now it's time for me to replace them, I am wondering if the the clear plastic chairs are too much on the "cute" side, not enough on the "sturdy" side.  I would appreciate recommendations on good kitchen chairs.  Because it's for a beach house, I would prefer to stick with non-upholstered kind.  But more important than anything else is the sturdiness.  I don't mind paying more for good quality, but nowadays, price and quality are not necessarily correlated.  A $500 chair can be just shoddily built as a $50 chair.  

Thanks for your help.

Lisa