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Home > Special offers and days out > Destination guides > Bournemouth
Bournemouth

Bournemouth Guide

Great days out by train

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort with seven miles of golden sands and a large surfing community. The bustling cosmopolitan town offers a variety of shops, restaurants and holiday accommodation; buzzing nightlife; and endless countryside with beautiful award-winning gardens and water sports galore.

Travel to Bournemouth from London with our Advance Fares for just £10 Standard Class and £17 First Class, one way, when you book early. 

Travelling to Bournemouth by train during June or July 2011? You could travel to and from the train station by bus for just £1.50 a day, with PLUSBUS and their online offer. They're offering savings up to 60% off the normal price of PLUSBUS day tickets. Click here for full details.

Bournemouth beach

Bournemouth beach has consistently won awards for the quality, safety and cleanliness of its seven golden miles of beach. The sheltered Bay offers beautiful vistas. On a clear day you can easily see the Needles on the Isle of Wight and Old Harry's Rocks over in the Purbecks.

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The Bournemouth Eye

The Bournemouth Eye is a spherical, helium-filled balloon with an enclosed gondola designed to carry 25-30 passengers. Tethered by a steel cable, the Balloon will gently float 500 feet above the beautiful Lower Gardens, where you will be enchanted with a spectacular panoramic view of the English Channel and surrounding area for up to 20 miles from the highest public observation point in Bournemouth. Operating from Easter until October, the Eye it is a short walk from Bournemouth train station.

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Oceanarium

Oceanarium, the Bournemouth Aquarium, is home to all your favourite creatures. Here, you will find yourself face to face with stunning sharks, graceful stingrays, breathtaking sea turtles and colourful clownfish. 

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Bournemouth Pier and Theatre

Bournemouth Pier and Theatre comprises a pleasant stroll where you will find places to eat, an amusement arcade featuring all the latest games, bars, pier theatres and children's entertainments. Traditional deck chairs are also available, for watching the world go by and soaking up the sun.

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Boscombe Surf Reef

Boscombe Surf Reef is located east of Boscome Pier, a 25-minute walk from Bournemouth. The Reef forms part of the £11million regeneration project to improve the quality of the waves for surfers and body boarders. 

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Bournemouth International Centre

Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) is a premier conference, leisure and hospitality centre. Here you will find a programme packed with large rock and pop concerts to multi-hall conferences and smaller more intimate meetings, exhibitions, opera, ballet and comedy. 

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Learn to surf

Learn to surf and join expert surfers with Bournemouth Surf School, which offers surfing and paddling throughout the year. Catch one of the regular buses to the town centre, and then it is just a five-minute walk. 

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Shopping in Bournemouth

Shopping in Bournemouth supplies a great choice of independent stores, pedestrianised areas and boutiques. Take a stroll to the very popular Westover Road, also known as the Bond Street of Bournemouth, you’ll be spoilt for choice with restaurants, cafes and coffee shops when it is time to rest your feet.

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