Short break in Leysdown/Sheepy on nearer dealetc

diystarter7

We were thinking og going to Dubai but with risks of covid, cramped palsnes etc

We've done day trips this year to Leysdown/Sheppy, Deal/Margate and Dymchurch.
We like the quietness of Dymchurch but are too far to travel in winter/now and prefer Sheppy/Leysdown.
Looking at holiday sites only a few hotels in Leysdown or deal/Margate way but not Margate - Herne Bay is nice went there a few years ago

We like quiet places.

What I have noted is that coach trips seem to get hotels booked cheaper but I don't want to be stuck on a coach full of coughing people or not exactly know what room we are getting

Not many seem to do breakfast and dinner but just breakfast - any ideas, please?

diystarter7

Anyone there?

MrsStepford

Dymchurch is easy to get to. HS1 Javelin high speed train from London St Pancras to Folkestone Central is just under an hour. Walk/taxi/bus to bus station to get the number 10 bus (leather seats, wifi) to Dymchurch. If you did some research on the Stagecoach website, you might be able to pick up a 10 nearer to the train station. 

By car, take M20 to Jct 13 then A259 to Dymchurch. Or take M20 to Ashford then cut across the countryside via vllages. 

Isle of Sheppey has trains to Sheerness, unsure whether Leysdown has a station. 

Leysdown faces the North Sea and Dymchurch faces the English Channel, so warmer. Also has sand dunes, golf course nearby, the cute Neptune pub with carvery, Royal British Legion club,martello tower,seafood stall, Tesco Express, a decent butchers, amusement park and is not far from Hythe, with Waitrose and Aldi. Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is a miniature steam railway which chugs along the coast in summer. Great fish and chips, at The Pilot, Dungeness. 

Sea_Shell

Well I never thought I'd see Dubai and Leysdown in the same thread! 


Would be hard to find two places further apart in the socio-economic scale.    There won't be many people for whom both are on the radar, when it comes to choice of holiday destination.

From what I remember of Leysdown, it is mainly self catering accommodation, in static caravans, aimed at young families.

Amusement arcades, fish and chips and candy floss.  

But that was over 20 years ago.   Maybe it's changed?


I've never been to Dubai.




ETA - just noted the date of your original thread.   I didn't notice it had been bumped.

Where did you end up going?     

baser999

😄😄 there’s sand in both Dubai and Leysdown.