St Bees Holidays

For a cheap UK holiday, St Bees puts you in a relaxing and peaceful seaside town four miles south of Whitehaven. Bird-lovers will enjoy St Bees Head, a bird-watchers' paradise that's home to one of the UK's largest sea-bird colonies, including razor-bills, puffins and guillemots. St Bees is also famous as the starting point of Wainwright's 200-mile coast-to-coast walk, which ends in Robin Hood's Bay on the east coast. As you potter around the town on your St Bees holidays, stop off at the former priory, now Church of St Marys and St Bega. Excavations here revealed a female skeleton and a lead coffin containing a well-preserved man's body, who became known as St Bees Man. A TV programme, 'Frozen in Time, Mummies Forever', was devoted to the find. For discoveries of your own, use your St Bees holiday as a great base to explore the Cumbrian West Coast, Furness Peninsula and the Lake District.

Cheap UK holidays in St Bees are just around the corner from the beautiful Lake District National Park. Here, you'll find England's highest mountain, Scafell Pike, England's deepest lake, Wastwater, and many delightful towns, like Keswick and Ambleside, packed with fascinating antiques and crafts shops. The Lakes are heaven for sailors, climbers, and particularly walkers, with ready routes available from local shops and tourist offices. For the energetic on a St Bees UK holiday, try Grizedale Forest's 60-foot-high rope-bridge and zip-slide course. A more leisurely time beckons at the Beatrix Potter Museum and the Lake District Coast Aquarium, with its marine life displays, harbour-view cafe, crazy golf course, radio-controlled boats and ‘Wild Solway' centre.

 

On cheap UK holidays in St Bees in Cumbria, there are a number of accommodation options, from swanky hotels to warm and welcoming bed and breakfasts and guest houses. However, by far the most popular accommodation on cheap UK holidays in St Bees are the traditional coastal caravans, these days equipped with all the latest mod cons, like fitted furniture and satellite TV. Wherever you stay on your low-cost UK holidays in St Bees, you'll find a friendly Cumbrian welcome.