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Welcome to the holiday portfolio of Wight
Merit Hotels limited. Here you can select your short break or main holiday
on the Isle of Wight in the knowledge that the standard and quality of
accommodation and holiday experience is assured by the Wight Merit Charter
and quality checked by the R.A.C and/or A.A. - E.T.C.
Sandown and Shanklin boast two of the most popular beaches on the Isle
of Wight and can be walked from end to end, right around Sandown Bay starting
or finishing at Yaverland, the location of Sandown Zoo and one of the
most popular locations for Windsurfing and Kitesurfing on the Isle of
Wight. Yaverland is also the starting point for one of the most spectacular
walks on the Island on to the top of Culver down.
From Sandown pier you can walk along the esplanade, passing several cafes
and a watersports centre before coming to Hope beach and then Shanklin
beach where you will find several bars, pubs and cafes, a large amusement
and activity centre and the famous lift, taking you onto the Shanklin
- Sandown cliff path overlooking the whole of Sandown Bay with just a
short walk to the shops and the 'Olde Village'.
Ventnor is a small town clinging to the steep hillside of St Boniface
Down with hairpin bend roads and paths leading to the beach, and is
not short of attractions. Ventnor harbour is ideally situated near several
pubs, hotels and cafes that occupy Ventnor seafront. The cliff path
boasts more spectacular views out into the English Channel and across
the headland to Luccombe.
Going out of Ventnor and incidently not far from the famous Blackgang
Chine, you can visit the Ventnor Botanical Gardens and smugglers museum,
or watch a game of cricket on a hot summers afternoon.
St Boniface down, directly behind Ventnor, has its fair share of spectacular
walks and views and at 787feet, on a clear day, you can see right across
the Isle of Wight to Freshwater and easily make out the cliffs of Dorset.
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