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Botany Bay Hotel

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Avoid the Botany Bay Hotel restaurant on the clifftop: tired carvery pricing, captive-audience cooking.

From Best beaches near London 2026 — 8 worth the train, under “Botany Bay, Broadstairs — chalk stacks and a town worth the train”.

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    Botany Bay

    Citorah says What you get is fine pale sand, properly broad at low tide, hemmed in by the chalk stacks that Turner painted and most London beach lists ignore.

    The catch Wrong choice if your day needs candyfloss or a seafront Wetherspoons.

The guide it’s in

  • London · Beaches

    Best beaches near London 2026 — 8 worth the train

    London's closest beach isn't the best. Eight beaches I'd go back to — Camber, Wittering, Broadstairs, Whitstable — four to skip, with 2026 train times.

    Checked · 18 minResearch-ledSays what to skip

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