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Hi all,
I’m hoping to visit a place that builds ” Tiny homes” in Beaminster, Dorset (prob around Mid-March )
As it sort of corresponds with a wedding anniversary, thought it might be a good idea to make a weekend of it. The closest coastal places look to be Lyme Regis, Charmouth & West Bay. Weymouth’s a bit further away, but ive been there a few times, so prefer somewhere different.
Appreciate any recommendations for where to stay, things to do etc, will be driving so somewhere with decent parking ideally.
Ta
The Seaside Boarding House near Bridport is probably the best place in the area, superbly located on the cliffs, extremely comfortable and very good food but isn’t cheap. Lyme Regis is a bit sad, rather run down although the setting is great. The much acclaimed Mark Hix restaurant there is seriously disappointing. Also, don’t know if you like walking, but the coast path is I think still not open (with detour on main road).
The King John Ιnn at Tollard Royal is good but maybe a bit far.
@JDB thank you for your insight, will take a look at the SBH, cheers.
Depressing to read Lyme Regis is sad. As a kid my parents would take furnished houses in Dorset/Devon mostly, and stayed in Lyme Regis and West Bay a few times, great childhood memories. Another repeat visit was Croyde, which seemingly is now a surf centre and far more developed than my memory of it around 1970.
Remember hours on the beach at LR searching for fossils, it used to have a great museum for a kid that thought fossils were one step from finding a dinosaur.
Depressing to read Lyme Regis is sad. As a kid my parents would take furnished houses in Dorset/Devon mostly, and stayed in Lyme Regis and West Bay a few times, great childhood memories. Another repeat visit was Croyde, which seemingly is now a surf centre and far more developed than my memory of it around 1970.
Remember hours on the beach at LR searching for fossils, it used to have a great museum for a kid that thought fossils were one step from finding a dinosaur.
I bet it was very nice then. As LR is so small and naturally very pretty, it will hopefully gradually improve, but they seemingly don’t have enough more affluent holidaymakers to make a difference. We were told that a lot of the large very smart looking houses were holiday homes with the owners or tenants coming from London with all their food and drink for the week so providing little trade for local business and along the front it’s mainly burgers, kebabs or fish and chips at seaside prices. Fossil hunting is still alive and well, notably at Charmouth which we managed to walk to from LR with some difficulty along the beach as parts of the coast path had fallen down the cliffs. LR isn’t as sad as Eastbourne that we visited last week!
Check out https://www.thejailhouse.co.uk/jailhouse-cafe for lunch and great views of Portland and back to Weymouth and chesil beach etc. went a number of years ago but was a good experience and def amazing views
Bit of a hole I thought, but the region is superb. I can’t think of a friendlier part of England.
Best food we had was at the Oyster and Fish House and we stayed at the excellent Dower House Hotel (more a large B&B) and got about using a local cab company (Eco Cabs) who one night reserved us a cab just in case because we’d been talking about it. Everyone just seemed so connected, so wanting you to have a great time, and just massively customer-focused.
We were there to eat at Hugh firmly eats it all’s place. That was just OK. Bit up itself and trying too hard to tell you how hard they were trying. Plenty of other great restaurants have the same ethos and just do it without rubbing your face in it.
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