Hi all
Further to my previous post about the beach on the river. My daughter is having none of it and wants a proper beach with a sea to swim in.
Can anyone recommmend a beach?? It has to be accessable by train as we are not driving. I am looked at Deauville but it seems quite far and expensive on the train. Is there anywhere closer?
Many thanks (again)
Jo x
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The closest beach will be in Normandy/Brittany, the closest beach soutwards is about 800km away... Also keep in mind that august is very, VERY high season on french beaches so finding accomodation for a reasonable price will be very difficult. Not worth the trouble in my opinion.
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Hello,%26#39;
Yes Deauville/Trouville (separated by just a river) are the closest %26quot;sea%26quot; beaches to Paris. And yes it can be a bit costly to take a train over. Its two hours from Paris gare Lazare right to the waters edge but then a walk to either town and the beaches.
Last year at the end of June we attempted to get a room on the weekend and they were FULL. Had to drive back a ways and finally found a place with a cancellation....just lucky though. We have gone out there without reservations during the week, even in July, and found a room, but it wasnt too easy. There is an Ibis there and you could probably make reservations in Paris for a room there....maybe.
The trains going out are at good times in the morning for a day trip but it is a little harder to get an early evening train back to Paris....check that out before you decide to go.
You might want to rent a car just for the day and drive over to Normandy....tis good highway over although probably will take you close to 3 hours to get right to the beaches.
Tis quite beautiful there and the beaches are very wide (at low tide especially)...lots of great seafood restaurnts and even gaming casinos.
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If your daughter is set on the beach, perhaps the money would be more well spent going to a destination that has a beach rather than Paris?
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The trip is a birthday treat from my husband and unfortunatly we have no one to leave my daughter with,we don;t palm her off on just anyone. She is very excited about Paris and is looking forward to all the culture she will experience, as she did in Rome, however she does want to be able to spend a day at a beach and I don;t see anything wrong with that.
I know it is difficult to tell with the written word but your tone seems very off to me and if you have nothing positive to say then maybe you should not contribute
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Let%26#39;s just figure that people were trying to be helpful and look outside the box.
A flight to Nice might be as cheap as the train somewhere else, and the Mediterranean is much more beautiful, in my opinion, than the Atlantic.
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Kookie,
I think you misunderstood. I was merely suggesting that if your daughter really likes the beach, then maybe the beach would be more fun for her, that%26#39;s all. No offense meant and I apologize if I offended!
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Actually, I think the closest beach destination is Dieppe, in upper Normandy, also accessible by train from Paris (gare Saint-Lazare). Historically, this is where sea bathing became fashionable in France in the 1820%26#39;s, thanks to the brave Duchesse de Berry who convinced the high society of the times to go swimming in the chilly Channel waters.
Please note it is a pebble beach, but the coast (chalk cliffs similar to those of Etretat further south), port town and hilltop fortress of Dieppe are interesting, more so, in my opinion, than Deauville and the stretch of coast around it. Dieppe is a more middle-class beach destination than Deauville too.
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I was thinking of thef light option also, I have checked al the budget airlines. Are there any recommendations of any others I should try
Many thanks for all your help
Jo x
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To be honest... You have three days in Paris, August is high season everywhere in France except Paris, not that we don%26#39;t want to give suggestions but as far as I am concerned I%26#39;d do a separate trip to some beach area. Even if you fly cheap you will spend half the day on trasportation and admittedly you get a flight in the morning you will not be on the beach before 1pm, then you%26#39;ll have to find accomodation, which as I said earlier (and has been confirmed by others) is a pain the a*s in August and will explode your budget, and then the next morning go back to the airport...
I reckon it is easier to take your daughter to Brighton for a week end on your return...
That said if you had a car, you would most definately be flexible enough to drive to Normandy very early in the morning and drive back after dinner, then you could spend an entire day without any kind of hassle and no need to find accomodation!
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He he, I don%26#39;t think kookie would want to bring her daughter all the way down here to Brighton on her return when she has good old Skeggie on her doorstep with (I think) a sandy beach?
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