What is the best about this place?
The most exciting experiences are:
📸To take photos of the sea shore and the lighthouse itself from outside. 🐟To have a seafood meal in the local restaurant (Salmon is the best!). ☕️🫖And a cup of hot tea with the sea view. 🦅To admire the seagulls stealing food from the tables 😆. 🧗♂️To climb over the cliffs and rocks (Gentle reminder! Be extra careful! Just keep in mind that to climb up a cliff is easier obviously than to rappelling down). 🎁To hang around the gift shop on the ground floor To observe the huge old lantern💡on the ground floor at the beginning of the excursion 📢To listen to the warning siren sound on the middle floor 🪜To go upstairs 256 (?) steps to the top 👌To listen to the history of the lighthouse. With the sirens sounds, the comparing lanterns sizes and prices (an old and a modern one), the observing the top floor, the explanation how great engineering job was done to create the lighthouse.
⚠️ TopTip - book your guided excursion beforehand (a couple of hours worked for us, maybe a couple of days). Final step to complete the whole...
Read moreWell worth visiting. We caught a bus there from Weymouth which I can highly recommend it was a lot easier than the drive would have been and buses are hourly.
The lighthouse itself is amazing to see the views stunning. There is the lighthouse visitor centre with gift shop where you can also go on a tour to the top of the lighthouse if unlike me you are physically able to. There is a separate gift shop and...
Read moreBeautiful light house tour. Staff lovely and helpful, especially Alison really helpful and informative. Amazing historical lighthouse in Portland Bill. Tour is climbing the stairs, which is a good work out. Great views and historical tour of the lighthouse. Seeing the glass was impressive. Also have lobster pot next door, which excellent food. Pletty of parking, but now...
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