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Southend On Sea City Guide Including Hotels
outhend-on-Sea is Essex’s
largest town and its close
proximity to London makes Central Museum and Planetarium.
it a popular tourist destination If you’ve never visited a
year after year. Better still, it planetarium then now’s your
is located in the south east of chance; there are live
the country in an area widely presentations throughout the day.
regarded as the driest part of Meanwhile, the museum reveals
Britain. plenty of secrets about
Southend’s eventful history.
The town is chock-full of
interesting attractions which are Jubilee Beach. This sand and
aimed at all the family, whether shingle beach stretches from the
you’re looking for local history, Pier to Thorpe Bay; there are
the arts and culture, or also regular pleasure boat trips
family-oriented activities to available.
keep you occupied. Some of
Southend-on-Sea’s most popular Southend Cliffs. If you
attractions are: appreciate the beauty of nature,
you’ll love these ornamental
Southend Pier. Measuring in at gardens, which also offer amazing
1.33 miles, Southend Pier is the views of the south east coast.
longest pleasure pier in the
entire world! Built in 1830, it Prittlewell Priory. An excellent
has recently been refurbished and museum with the focus on
hosts an RNLI lifeboat station educational activities, housed in
and an exclusive Pier train. the remains of a 12th century
Nowhere will you experience priory.
better sights of the beautiful
coastline of the Thames Estuary. When you arrive in
Southend-on-Sea you’ll discover a in the country.
myriad of activities and things
to do, just waiting to be Checking out Kursaal on the
discovered. The town is packed Eastern Esplanade. Here you’ll
with a mixture of shops, making find an astonishing thirty lanes
it one of the most popular of ten-pin bowling, many themed
shopping areas in the entire restaurants and bars and a unique
southeast, and there are plenty Mardi Gras play area. Better
of coffee shops and restaurants still, admission is free!
where you can rest your legs and
take a break. Just a few of the Taking a trip to the Sealife
things to do include: Centre. Lovers of nature will be
in their element when visiting
Shopping at The Royals Shopping this marine centre, which offers
Centre. Overhead, you’ll see a an authentic voyage beneath the
beautiful glass dome, which ocean, where you can glimpse
protects from the elements whilst colourful and spectacular marine
letting the sun in. Down below, life in a huge aquarium.
you’ll find shops ranging from
Debenhams to Ottakars, Evans, Take part in the Carnival! If
Sarah Beth and more. your visit coincides with the
month of August, you’ll find the
Visiting Adventure Island. This annual Carnival in full swing.
exciting theme park is host to Events include special
more than forty rides and processions, fancy dress
attractions that will appeal to competitions, fairs, arts
the kids, as well as the inner festivals, fireworks and more.
child in all of us. Not only
that, but the low rates make it As you’d expect, Southend-on-Sea
one of the best value theme parks boasts a wide variety of places
to eat. The scale ranges from the specials every day. Fresh fish is
simplest café, where you can sit a speciality; the restaurant also
down with a sandwich and a cup of offers pleasant sea views to take
coffee, to the finest restaurant in whilst you eat.
establishment, where you can
enjoy a range of courses. There Mr Ping. This Chinese restaurant
are also plenty of takeaways offers two options, eat-in or
enabling you to grab a bite to takeaway. In 2003, it was a
eat and enjoy it as you stroll ‘Restaurant of the Year’
down the beach. Here are just a finalist.
few of the choices:
The Grapevine of Tuscany. An
The Waterfront Café. Choose from Italian restaurant serving up a
a wide selection of favourite la carte menus, pizzas and pasta.
English food – fish and chips, You’ll get a choice of eating in
roast dinners, or steak. Fish is or a take-away; fresh homemade
freshly prepared on the premises pasta is The Grapevine’s
and is cooked to order. Many speciality.
other choices of meal are
available, including scampi and As Southend-on-Sea is such a
lasagne. popular tourist destination,
there are lots of hotels and
The Golden Lion. Plenty of guesthouses located in and around
traditional English fare is on the town, with many of the finest
offer in this friendly pub, which quality. The good news for the
also caters for special diets. visitor is that all the hotels
are vying with each other to
Camelia Restaurant. Offers offer the most competitive rates,
French, Italian and English meals which means you can guarantee
with a range of different quality and value in equal
measure. Alternative professional shows and
accommodation ranges from entertainment. Alternatively, if
campsites and caravan parks to you enjoy big spectacle, then the
self-catering cottages, Cliffs Pavilion will be for you;
traditional inns and plenty more this massive theatre has a huge
besides. programme of concerts, ballet,
performance artists, musicals and
Essex County Hotel more.
The Gleneagles Hotel
The Westcliff Hotel Visitors flock to Southend-on-Sea
Ilfracombe House Hotel all year round and it’s easy to
Camelia Hotel see why. With hundreds of things
Tower Hotel to do, ranging from numerous
attractions, family-focused fun
Southend-on-Sea has plenty of and more, it’s impossible to find
entertainment going on, meaning yourself at a loose end.
you’ll never get bored. The town Alternatively, the town itself is
is packed with pubs and close to places like
nightclubs, enabling you to while Leigh-on-Sea, which offer quieter
away the long twilight hours. For fare, so if you want to get away
the family, the Odeon Cinema is a from the hustle and bustle, you
massive multiplex that shows all can explore the surrounding
the latest Hollywood villages and countryside. No
blockbusters. Meanwhile, if your matter what your tastes, age or
tastes are of a theatrical needs, Southend-on-Sea is sure to
nature, then you’ll no doubt provide exactly what you’re
enjoy the Palace Theatre, which looking for as a tourist
consists of a modernised destination.
Edwardian building hosting
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Name: Maria Williams
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