Top Things to do in St. Brelade
Top 7 Hidden Gems Things to do in St. Brelade, Channel Islands
St. Brelade, in the Jersey Islands, is home to several beautiful bays with golden sands. St. Brelade Bay is a great place for an active beach day—beachgoers enjoy canoeing, banana boat rides, trampolines and kayaking. Visit the Fisherman’s Chapel to see the perquage, a path from the chapel to the sea. Ancient law allowed a criminal to seek sanctuary in the chapel for eight days. On the ninth, he had to surrender or walk down the path to board a boat, which would carry him into permanent exile from the island.
Restaurants in St. Brelade
1. Beauport Beach
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 152 reviews
This is a small beach on the southwest of the island. Easy to find if you google it. Beaches like St Brelade's are well developed and attractive to those who like this. But Beauport beach is completely undeveloped and very beautiful: one of the most lovely small beaches I have seen. I had to put a city in, and wrote St Aubin but it's a few miles from this.
Reviewed By horsman1970 - Battle, United Kingdom
Fantastic secluded bay, like something from Pirates of the Caribbean, we spent the morning there, deserted, my wife swam it was beautiful
2. Reg's Garden
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4.5 based on 236 reviews
Reviewed By 70Judy70
This is such a little hidden gem, Reg has done so much to this quirky place, there is even a special swing for wheelchair users - the only one in the island!
3. Parish Church of St. Brelade
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4.5 based on 496 reviews
Reviewed By lymicriste - Wellington, United Kingdom
Well worth seeing this beautiful church over looking the bay.beautiful inside and out -hosts a lovely prayer tree where you can write a prayer for a loved one that will be read out weekly
4. The Harbour Gallery Jersey
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4.5 based on 213 reviews
The Harbour Gallery exhibits the work of over 100 local artists and craftworkers, it is the largest exhibiting and working gallery in the Channel Islands. It hosts 9 major exhibitions each year and events along with many workshops tutored by UK and local highly skilled tutors. The Gallery Café & Deli serves freshly cooked food sourced wherever possible from Jersey, open 9.00am - 5.00pm, 7 days a week. The Harbour Gallery Jersey, the window to the charity Art in the Frame Foundation, is open 7 days a week 10.00am - 5.30pm.
Reviewed By alexrive
Took a family friend out for lunch at the Harbour Gallery Cafe yesterday and a look around the Gallery after being closed for 2 weeks. She was very impressed with the food and the relaxed friendly atmosphere. She enjoyed her tuna melt and I had my favourite vegan sausage roll. Afterwards we could not resist treating ourselves to a cake from the tempting display on offer as well as looking at all the amazingly crafted work downstairs. Will continue to recomend this as a trip whenever looking for a day out as there is always the gaurentee of fantastic food upstairs and something new downstairs!
5. Valley Adventure Centre
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4.5 based on 55 reviews
Valley Adventure Centre is an outdoor activity centre located in St Brelade, Jersey. Close to the Airport, and on a great bus route, it is a must visit attraction for all ages! Test your skills on our Aerial Trekking course set at 3 and 8 metres, fly down the valley on our 145m Zip Wire, test your nerves on the 12m simulated freefall Powerfan drop, and get the adrenaline pumping on our King Swing (all 7+)! We also have an outdoor Climbing wall, Archery range, and low level Rookie Trekking for the littler ones (5+) and, for larger groups, Laser Combat, Paintball (14+) or Splatmaster (9+).
6. Portelet Bay
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4.5 based on 119 reviews
Reviewed By kennethH6
Portelet bay again is one of my favourites. Buses run frequently from St. Helier. Portelet just has a few minor problems. There are lots of steep steps down to the bay and definitely not for the disabled or people are not good with their legs. Its easy going down, but very hard coming back up. Remember the saying, what goes down has to come back up. The beach is well worth visiting with a small island in the middle. Take your camera. There is a restaurant and bar at the top called the old portelet.
7. Jersey Lavender Farm
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4.0 based on 583 reviews
In 2018 we are open from 1st May to 30th September, 10am to 5pm, Tuesdays to Sundays - we are closed on Mondays for maintenance, even if the Monday is a bank holiday. From early June to mid August we have our harvesting season when we look the best with the lavender in bloom, and we gather the harvest in. During this time we STRONGLY encourage you to attend one of the talks in the distillery at either 11:30am or 3:00pm. They are fun, informative and well worth it. Outside the harvesting season, the distillery isn't working but there is a 5 min video presentation that explains the processes on the farm through the year, and plenty to read and our different lavender oils to smell (and the entrance charge is lower). There is a "Discovery Trail" for kids and adults alike, chickens to feed and we also have our Sprigs Cafe and Shop. Plenty of homemade food in the first and a good range of gifts and, of course, the lavender products made on the farm.
Reviewed By Zellander - London, United Kingdom
We turned up just in time for the talk (on the day we went there were only two that day). The history and description of the process was fascinating, it was interesting to hear about the different types of lavender and oils and what they may be used for. You can wander through the lavender fields afterwards. It was a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours and great that we could take our dog with us.
