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On this site you will find many Bournemouth Hotels with 70% off standard rates. They offer the best prices in the best areas of Bournemouth. On the south coast of England, Bournemouth is 100 miles from London with rail connections to London Waterloo. Bournemouth is known for its seven miles of sandy beaches, parks and gardens and conference venues, as well as its proximity to the New Forest and the Dorset countryside. Bournemouth Piers Bournemouth hotels provide the base for visiting 2,000 acres of public parks, gardens and open spaces and a number of attractions, leisure and entertainment facilities, including Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers, the Bournemouth Eye Balloon, the IMAX cinema, the Dorset Belles Cruises, the Oceanarium Bournemouth and the Bournemouth International Centre. Activities in and around Bournemouth include watersports, golf and go-karting, and there is a vibrant nightlife with a wide range of restaurants and bars. The New Forest and Dorset Bournemouth hotels provide a central location on the south coast for exploring the surrounding cultural heritage and countryside. Just outside Bournemouth is Poole, Europe's largest natural harbour, which is a sailing centre and includes a ferry port with direct links from France and the Channel Islands. Also nearby is Swanage on the tip of the island of Purbeck. Inland, there are many historical ruins and stately homes, and to the east lies the New Forest. Renowned for its clean sandy beaches, the resort of Bournemouth is the nucleus of Europe's largest non-industrial conurbation stretching between Lymington and Poole harbour. The resort has a single-minded holiday-making atmosphere. The city dates only from 1811, when a local squire, Louis Tregonwell, built a summer house on the wild, unpopulated heathland that once occupied this stretch of coast, and planted the first of the pine trees that now characterize the area. Sadly, the blandly modern town that you see today has little to remind you of Bournemouth's Victorian heyday, though it does boast some exuberant horticultural displays, and exploring Bournemouth's public gardens can easily fill a day. Moreover, the pristine sandy beach ranks as one of southern England's cleanest, while the town possesses a first-rate indoor attraction in its Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum on East Cliff Promenade (Tues-Sun 10am-5pm; free), which houses a motley assortment of artworks and oriental souvenirs gathered from around the world by the Russell-Cotes family, hoteliers who grew wealthy during Bournemouth's late-Victorian tourist boom. The benefactors' lavishly decorated former home, featuring unusual stained glass and ornate painted ceilings, is jam-packed with their eclectic collections, of which the Japanese artefacts are especially interesting. There are some good examples of Pre-Raphaelite and other British art downstairs, period decor throughout and a cliff-top landscaped garden. In the centre of town, you might visit the graveyard of St Peter's church, just east of the Square, where Mary Shelley, author of the Gothic horror tale Frankenstein , is buried, together with the heart belonging to her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, former resident of Boscombe. The tombs of Mary's parents - radical thinker William Godwin and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft - are also here. National Express Coaches serves Bournemouth Travel Interchange, Boscombe and Westbourne. There are frequent departures to London Victoria Coach Station and also direct services to the West Country, Sussex coast (Brighton and Eastbourne), Bristol, Birmingham and the Midlands, the North West, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland. |
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Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel, St. Michael's Road, West Cliff, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 5DU
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