Advantages: Lively, Entertaining, Good food, Good beer Disadvantages: Can get busy
.... In addition it has become an important cultural centre, yearly hosting one of the largest arts festival in Europe second only to Edinburgh. A yearly film festival also taps into its long associations as a leading centre of the emerging British film industry.
The best way to get to Brighton is by train. There is a regular service between London Victoria Station and Brighton mainline; the journey time is around an hour. There are also regular train services from Southampton and Portsmouth but connection to the eastern coast town become a little problematic after Eastbourne.
Getting to Brighton by car is also easy enough, the main roads into the town include the M23/A23 or the A24 but the traffic in the centre can be a problem and parking is getting more difficult and more expensive every year. If you are determined to get there by car, get...
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Advantages: Good position. Great sea views. Spacious room. Disadvantages: A little tired - needs a new lease of life, perhaps!
...Apart from one occasion, long ago, when a friend and I misjudged the bus-timings to the theme park at Alton Towers and ended up in Derby with nothing better to do than sit in the public gallery watching a rather tedious shoplifting trial, I can honestly say that I have never been to court. British courts, however, are fairly opulent affairs, so I believe, and once sentence is passed the last words the unfortunate convict hears are "Take him down!" And down he, or occasionally she, disappears into a place somewhat more austere and wholly less homely.
And that rather bizarre introduction leads me perfectly into my initial thoughts on the Hilton Brighton West Pier if you happen to arrive by car, as we did. First impressions count quite significantly, after all, and however lavish the reception area may be - and it's not at all bad - you...
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Advantages: Easy to get to, something for everyone Disadvantages: None that I can think of
...Before I start I must warn you that I'm very biased. I live in Brighton (or Hove actually as the saying goes) and I love it. I came here in 1994 to go to University of Sussex nearby and just never got round to leaving.
If you're looking for somewhere to visit this summer let me try to entice you to Brighton. We're very proud of our newly acheived City status and we've got so much to offer. Whatever age you are and whatever interests you have Brighton will be bound to satisfy you. Lets start with some obvious basics.
<How to get here.>
Unless you live on the South Coast (in which case I'm sure you already know how to get here) the easiest way is to get to London Victoria. From there you can catch a train or coach to Brighton. There is an express train that takes less than an hour. Even the standard train takes less than two...
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Gone are the days that a holiday in a seaside resort was staying in a boring B&B with an strict landlady and having to share a bathroom down the hall usually with extremely dodgy plumbing!
Recently staying in Brighton all the memories of this type of... more
30.10.2003
