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Where to park
Where to leave the car
Multi-storeys behind the seafront; street parking is metered and scarce.
Pebbles, the Palace Pier and the whole of London on a hot Saturday
Not sand but shingle, and none the worse for it: eight kilometres of pebble beach with the Palace Pier's arcades at the centre, the burnt skeleton of the West Pier to the west, and a seafront of cocktail bars, sauna huts and the i360 tower behind.
Where to park
Multi-storeys behind the seafront; street parking is metered and scarce.
When to arrive
May–September; sunrise swims year-round with the Brighton Swimming Club.
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Into the Tower on the first entry of the day, straight to the Crown Jewels while the vault is still quiet, then the White Tower, Traitors' Gate and the ravens with a guide who knows which stories are true.
The classic long day out of London: Stonehenge with admission included, the Roman Baths and Royal Crescent in Bath, and a stop in a honey-stone Cotswold village on the way back.
Skip the esplanade queue for Edinburgh Castle and the Stone of Destiny, then walk the Royal Mile down through the closes to Holyrood with a Scottish guide unpicking the Old Town's plague and Enlightenment history.
North through the Trossachs to Glencoe's Munros, along Loch Ness with an optional Urquhart Castle cruise, and back via the Cairngorms — the most efficient way to see the Highlands without a car.
Two days from Edinburgh or Inverness across the Skye Bridge: Eilean Donan castle, the Trotternish ridge, the Quiraing and the Fairy Pools, with a night in Portree.
The Causeway Coastal Route in a day: the UNESCO basalt columns, the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, Dunluce Castle on its stack and the beech tunnel of the Dark Hedges.
A day among the fells with a steamer crossing of Windermere, Wordsworth's Grasmere and its gingerbread shop, and time in Ambleside beneath the Langdale Pikes.
Eat your way through Britain's oldest food market — raclette, Bermondsey cheese, Kentish cider, a Monmouth coffee — with the Southwark backstory between stalls.
One long day covering both university cities from London, with a college interior in Oxford, walking the Backs in Cambridge and a chauffeured punt past King's College Chapel.
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How you get there
10 min walk downhill from Brighton station; 1 h by train from London Victoria.
What you'll find
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Pebbles, the Palace Pier and the whole of London on a hot Saturday. Not sand but shingle, and none the worse for it: eight kilometres of pebble beach with the Palace Pier's arcades at the centre, the burnt skeleton of the West Pier to the west, and a seafront of cocktail bars, sauna huts and the i360 tower behind. It's a pebble beach in Brighton & Hove · East Sussex, United Kingdom: 8 km long, shingle pebbles, with water described as channel · 16–19 °c · steeply shelving.
Multi-storeys behind the seafront; street parking is metered and scarce.
May–September; sunrise swims year-round with the Brighton Swimming Club.
10 min walk downhill from Brighton station; 1 h by train from London Victoria.
On site: Seasonal lifeguards, Deckchair hire, Beach volleyball courts, Seafront bars & sauna and Toilets.
Bring swim shoes for the pebbles The water shelves fast — non-swimmers stay between the flags
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Last reviewed · 30 July 2026
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Checked · 30 July 2026