Jersey trip, some tips please.

Sago

SpinDriftCoastal Thank you for the information, the walks from the hotels sound right up our street.

We are are lunch guests at the Pomme D’Or for the Liberation Day celebrations so very much looking forward to that.

Do you live on Jersey?

Wow! That is super that you are lunch guests at the Pomme D'Or. You will love it. My grandfather was a Jersey man and we still have relatives there hence the background knowledge. I really am so pleased for you visiting, and especially maytime. Bon Voyage, Bonne Appetit.

I'm reading all the posts and wishing myself right back there again. We stayed in St Brelades Bay Hotel, which was great, although quite formal. Across the road, a row of restaurants, including Pizza Express One of the restaurants may have been attached to the back of the Atlantic, we had a nice fish meal there. The actual bay is magnificient with the small church of St Brelades at one end of the bay. There's also a road that winds up at the church end to would you believe a Waitrose, we walked up to it to get our Sunday papers. Much easier on the way down the road is steep. Buses were a good way to get around we did that to go to St Hellier via the lovely adjacent town to us St Aubin. I really like the French feel to the island, not surprising it's far closer to the French mainland. Guernsey sounds charming too, I think it would be another lovely place to visit. My husband gets sea sick so we have to fly. I think that's more difficult although I know Guernsey as small as it is, has it's own airline.

Compared to the UK Jersey is tiny you will have time for Guernsey and the other islands, enjoy.

Thanks for all your posts.

We actually don’t have much time as we have a day at the Liberation celebration and a day at the races.

We hope to have the four days we have to ourselves to explore on foot and get to know Jersey a bit.
We have a car but don’t intend to use it much.

We will not have time to visit other Islands, Jersey may be small but we want to do it justice.
Otherwise it’s like an American coach trip….York in the morning and Edinburgh in the afternoon!

Will just say as I mentioned the bus service being very good that where the hotels you have chosen are the bus service is not quite so good I believe they are both hourly due to those hotels being a little out of the way of the main busy areas.

Sarnia

dogsmother

Please don’t be offended, Jersey people understand 😉

Understand what, exactly? Offended about what? Please explain.

There is a friendly rivalry especially over the Siam Cup which is the annual rugby union clash between Jersey and Guernsey, and it is the second‑oldest rugby trophy still contested, first played in 1920. There are also a lot of inter island jokes etc but some of us, like me, have relatives both in Jersey and Guernsey, so we need to keep it 'nice'. It is a bit like a family, they are all Channel Islanders but there is a little sibling rivalry!

Spent our honeymoon there - 70 years ago! Unfortunately my lovely husband is no longer with me.

For Sarnia - the previous post had said "Try Guernsey" -- hence the "they won't be offended" right afterwards?!

We visited many times, we liked it so much we chose to get married there!

I have visited Jersey many times, and think my favourite place is La Hougue Bie, which has a 6000 year old passage grave which you can walk right inside. This is one of the ten oldest buildings in the world. Ther are also two medieval chapels built on top of the mound. In the Second World War a command bunker was built nearby, and it is now used as a memorial and museum for the thousands of European slave workers who lived and died on Jersey. There is also an exhibition of the largest Celtic hoard ever discovered in Europe, which was found in a nearby field. And there is also a replica of a Neolithic longhouse. In my opinion, there is nothing in the whole of Great Britain which contains anything to match this tiny historical site.

Just love Jersey. Spent our honeymoon, silver wedding, golden wedding anniversaries and many other years in between there. Sadly not since pre-covid. My favourite is Greve de Lecq, a small harbour and beach on west end of north coast. Did have a lovely cafe, hope it’s still there. Another, less well known place is Noirmont Point, south-west coast. Many military installations from WW11. There is an old railway track from St Aubin towards Corbiere, a lovely walk.
Do hope you enjoy your visit.

If it’s warm outside, take a cardi or jacket for the tunnels, we found them cold compared with outside when we went.

I would love to cruise around the Channel Islands but can’t find one going from UK any ideas please I don’t like flying

We loved Jersey and went to all the places mentioned above. A couple of things worth mentioning - Route du Marais just outside St. Ouen a road lined all the way with Hydrangeas. It was beautiful to drive down and if they are still doing it a trip to France and a coach to Mont St. Michel. It was amazing.
Have a lovely time. We did.

Moonwatcher1904

We loved Jersey and went to all the places mentioned above. A couple of things worth mentioning - Route du Marais just outside St. Ouen a road lined all the way with Hydrangeas. It was beautiful to drive down and if they are still doing it a trip to France and a coach to Mont St. Michel. It was amazing.
Have a lovely time. We did.

Sorry but we are staying on Jersey and can I just say that Mont St Michel is one of the places on earth I hate the most!

I have done it once, that was one time too many.

It is a family joke that they will all surprise me with a trip over there.

It’s everything I hate, tacky tourist shops, thousands of people climbing up steps they cannot manage and stopping to take photos every 5 minutes, dog s@@t and pickpockets.

Thank you for your suggestions and please keep them coming but Jersey is where we are going and staying, no trips to France, Guernsey, Herm etc.

Lesley60

I would love to cruise around the Channel Islands but can’t find one going from UK any ideas please I don’t like flying

You don't have to fly go by ferry

All the above and more ! A day trip to St Malo on the boat is fabulous.
Son number 2 lives there, so being a dutiful mother I have to fly over every other month at least ! If they go on holiday I go over for 2 weeks and look after the house, doggy and swimming pool too …… it’s a tough life 🤭

I wouldn’t think you would be thrilled by my grandsons very favourite place in Jersey.
It’s a high end car dealership near the airport!
We spent a delightful afternoon at the showroom looking at amazing cars, at least my husband and DGS did, I sat and chatted to a delightful young salesman. He even offered me tea and biscuits. All this after I’d explained that we absolutely wouldn’t be buying!
Almost his best holiday ever,if it wasn’t for the Ferrari garage in the New Forest. They were delightful there too😂

The zoo has the most amazing charity shop, I still have a beautiful teapot I bought there

Not sure whether this has been mentioned. But Devils Hole is really worth a visit. An inland lake caused by collapsed sea caves.

Lived and worked in Jersey in the Seventies for five years and l still think it is very expensive.
Used to be day trips over to Northern France, Cherbourg Area by hydrofoil and ferry.

St. Malo Old town with cobbled streets.

Granville. Home of the Christian Dior Museum

Carteret. Fishing Village.

No Vat in Jersey but have GST of 5 per cent.

Top stores when l lived there were De Gruchy, Voisins and.
Le Gallais.

Also used to be sone very good perfume shops in St Aubin

No NHS or EHIC in Jersey by the way..But I think they have some kind of reciprocal agreement for essential and urgent health care
charges with the UK.

Prescription and other health charges not covered.

Small local hospital in St Helier used to be very basic. So get good additional. Travel Insurance.

Hope this is helpful.

Bon Voyage and have a good trip to Le Balliage de Jersey dans les iles de la Manche.

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I'd always been told it was very expensive but we were pleasantly surprised to find prices pretty much the same as where we live

Matelda, on my first visit to Jersey I asked my older grandson, 5 or 6, whether he wanted to come into La Hougue Bie.
He didn’t although we could see the tunnel was lit. When I came out I discovered the poor child had been sobbing the whole time in case I didn’t come out again.

My parents honeymooned there and conceived me. I have always felt a strong connection to the island. I love Guernsey too.

I found the war tunnels quite upsetting. I think it was about the way the prisoners were made to dig them. I know it was about 60 years ago and l was in my 20's.

Lesley60

I would love to cruise around the Channel Islands but can’t find one going from UK any ideas please I don’t like flying

P & O and Cunard both do cruises to Jersey according to Google 🙂.