Southwold Beach — Attraction in East Suffolk

Southwold has a beautiful sandy beach, picture perfect beach huts and pier. You can take the dogs and during off peak season you can let them off the lead (Image of Marley and me comes to mind!) So remember your doggy bags!. The town is lovely with great places to eat and shop. There are some great vintage shops too. If you walk along the beach, to the right, you'll reach the inlet where for £2 per person (2023) you can catch the little boat to the other side, and walk to the Bell Inn pub, a cosy old pub with good food and beers (dogs welcome). Oh! Plenty of parking, not sure of the prices, but you may get lucky in the...

First reaction was that there was plenty of (paid) parking but disabled (blue badge) did not exempt. Drove on to find a space on the prom but sadly too far to walk back. Had a nice drive all round the town. Had an excellent lunch at the Crown, very friendly courteous staff (a little pricey but where isn’t) was very lucky with the parking here with a few spaces almost opposite. Pretty town but not much for you if you have...

Lovely beach we walk regularly with the dog , allowed on beach in the winter. Usually very clean. Due to winter tides etc we usually do a little litter pick of any plastics etc that we see. After weekend visitors there is often disposable coffee cups and lids on beach too. Please if you're using local beach cafes bring your rubbish to the bins( lots of them about). Or better still bring your...