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A charming, clean little town with a clean sandy beach. Rather a long journey by road for a short break because of the rural setting. With current covid restrictions it's not easy to use pubs and cafes as they can only accept a limited number of customers at a time.

Southwold is a great unspoilt seaside town good tea shops and Great Pubs when the theatre is on they do great plays shame the lunch time plays have gone, nice lunch time and afternoon music in the church, good food festivals, great place to cycle to and walk, good sailing all along that coast done quite a bit, good bus service if you fancy a country trip well worth it,

Everything was in easy walking distance, no need to use the car at all. We enjoyed the circular walk to the harbour and town. Loved browsing in the shops and galleries, the old world pier and harbour. Such a pretty, unspoilt area. Great selection of pubs, restaurants and coffee shops and of course the Adnams shop and cafe.

Beautiful old world charm ,quaint and plenty of niche shops and bakeries. Beautiful coastline with easy access and clean ,well maintained with a great local coffee shop nestled in amongst the beach huts. However the general mood and attitude of shop owners was varied-some very pleased to see you ...others seem to find it an imposition. The shops open at 10am and many during this time were closing at 4pm(Covid) but surely in the Christmas run in they want to make money while the were lots of holiday makers there ?. Particularly frustrating the Adnams store ,queue to enter, hurried through, no chance to browse or have any dialogue with staff on the varieties on offer. On the Monday they closed well before 4pm....bit shoddy for the centre piece store. Would recommend a visit to Southwoldto anyone but think the high street community need to up their game particularly with the high pricing on virtually every item..

Southwold is a summer location for families, but we enjoyed it in October as it was not heaving with visitors, although most facilities were still open. The choice of dinner venues was great and very good quality, but almost invariably you needed to book. The Adnam pubs all provide excellent atmosphere, good service and food - and are not too expensive. The best place we found was The Anchor which is a very good fish and seafood restaurant with a superb menu, good service and a pleasant atmosphere. It wasn't cheap - around £110 for two people... 3 courses and a drink each.

Southwold is a very charming resort which we enjoyed very much, just one negative review I would advise visitors to book tables for evening meal in advance we had a lot of trouble finding a restaurant for our first night stay, the second night we ate in hotel which was very nice would recommend also if you want to visit brewery book in advance