Things to do / places to eat in Ilfracombe?

chickenpants

We have a week booked in Ilfracombe at the end of July. Having never been before can anyone recommend any reasonable places to visit / places to eat locally? It is for 2 adults and 2 girls aged 13 and 9. Have been working on paying off cc so a hoping the week will not be too expensive!

Cloudydaze

If the weather is nice enough, buy a disposable BBQ and spend the evening on the beach cooking hotdogs & hamburgers!! It's one of my favourite things to do in one of my favourite places. The beaches are stunning around there.

chickenpants

That's a lovely idea, assume its ok to do this on the beaches there? Have been some places where this is not allowed.

claire16c

Have you looked on trip advisor activities?

neneromanova

First place I'd go to is anywhere but Ilfracombe

Na I jest, it has gotten a lot better over the last couple of years. There's an amazing Ice cream place that sell blue bubblegum Ice cream It's on the road to the Verity statue.

http://www.visitilfracombe.co.uk/

There's Barnstaple about 20 mins away which is our local town. That has places like Prezzo/pizza express/dominoes etc. One chinese I'd reccommend it Fulhams Chinese. It's Gorgeous. hmmm, thinking about it now, might get OH to go get me some tonight as he owes me a chinese

http://www.fullamrestaurant.com/

http://www.barnstaple.co.uk/ (god knows where they came up with that Logo, it's no where in town...)

Anything else you'd like to know just let me know

chickenpants

That's great thank you, it's always good to get recommendations from someone who knows the area

StaffieTerrier

I haven't been for years but we always used to go here: http://www.squiresfishrestaurant.co.uk/ It's between Ilfracombe and Barnstaple

thatlemming

Ohh Squires does the best fish and chips in north devon. Go there.

ashleighsalem

buy the local paper it often has discount vouchers for local attractions, and if you are using local bus they often have vouchers on the back. hth

no1catman

Be there last week in the month - attractions we have in mind -
- Sea Aquarium, and the 'Tunnels'.

Look around Barnstaple & Bideford - which one has the Steam Railway? How long is the line?
Might go down south to Bude & up north to Lynmouth.

WestonDave

Not sure either of them have a steam railway as such - there is a bit of a railway at Bideford but its not really a running operation. http://www.bidefordrailway.co.uk/

You might be thinking of the Lynton and Barnstaple line rebuild which is at Parracombe - http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk/ Barnstaple still has a live Network Rail connection.

Croyde Bay is a nice pretty natural beach if you fancy a different day out - we had a week there a couple of years ago and didn't really do much apart from spend the days on the beach - there is a stream running down the beach (clean fresh water stream) which attracted legions of dam builders each day, plus the dunes and for the older ones its a good surfing or body boarding beach with full RNLI lifeguard cover.