Stay in a luxury hotel in Eastbourne with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to stroll along the elegant Victorian promenade lined with tall 19th-century hotels and dotted with wrought-iron lamp-posts. Wander from the 1930s grandstand to the pier through the colourful Carpet Gardens.
Luxury things to do in Eastbourne
Watch pre-Wimbledon players on the exclusive Devonshire Park grass courts. Drama of a different sort is acted out on the ornate stage of the nearby Devonshire Park theatre. Local and international contemporary artists display their works within the award-winning Towner art gallery. The rolling green South Downs invite lazy rambles or exhilarating flights in a paraglider. Take your fishing rod to Hydneye Lake or look for moorhen and grebe on Shinewater.
Luxury seaside holidays in Eastbourne
For a boutique seaside experience, rent an exclusive traditional painted wooden beach hut at Holywell Retreat at the foot of the South Downs. Swim in the bracing English Channel and look for sea anemones and tiny crabs in rock pools at low tide.
Gourmet Eastbourne
The exclusive Hungry Monk in Jevington invented the delicious banana, toffee and cream concoction known as banoffee pie. Fresh fish is a Sussex coast speciality. Enjoy it with chips on a private boat or sit on Beachy Head’s chalk cliffs looking out to France. Taste local bream, bass or conger eel in one of Eastbourne’s restaurants next to exclusive boutiques on a wide tree-lined street. Spread a crumbly scone with thick cream and strawberry jam in a beamed tearoom in Alfriston, an old smugglers’ haunt.
Book an Eastbourne holiday at an exclusive and elegant hotel with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to stay where Churchill and Chaplin were welcomed to its extravagantly pillared white portico. Discover the dramatic sea views that inspired Debussy to write La Mer.