Local Facilities (Please scroll down to see selected facilities and click on photogallery)

Walk to the end of the garden, cross the Esplanade, and you are on the beach... it is enormous and gloriously sandy

Other amenities within a couple of minutes walk include:

-Heated swimming pool with opening roof

-Yacht Marina

-Boating Lake with pedalos for hire

-Cafe bars and restaurants

-Tenpin Bowling

-Kids mini fun fair

-Outdoor Bowls

-Trampolines

-Cinema

-Gymnasium

-Local friendly pubs

-Nature reserve (towards Seaview)

Plus all the local services and shops including grocers, post office, laundrette, pubs, cafe, fish and chips takeaway and a Chinese takeaway. Within 10-15 minutes you can easily walk into Ryde high street for shopping (supermarket, major banks, wine bars and cafes) and there is also a small cinema. The major shopping centre for the Island is Newport, which is approximately 20-30 minutes drive.

Activity holidays:

We are ideally placed for those who want to bring a boat to sail - see links page for Ryde Harbour. In five minutes you could be exploring the Solent or even sail round the island for the day. Our apartments are also ideal for walkers and cyclists - take the train from Ryde to Sandown/Shanklin or the Island bus service to get to your chosen start destinations. Cycle hire is available from many specialist bike shops in Ryde. There are eight golf courses on the Island (9-18 holes) and Ryde golf course in Binstead welcomes visitors (just on the outskirts of Ryde).

Eating out:

For excellent eating out you will be really spoiled for choice in Ryde and the Isle of Wight generally; much food produce is locally home grown and the Isle of Wight boasts its share of top star chefs. Local pub and cafe food is excellent and for an evening out, you can enjoy Michaelangelo's authentic Italian food in St Thomas Street (Ryde Seafront).  Great cocktails can be found at The Black Sheep (Union St), and the JD Wetherspoon (chain) pub at the top of Union Street is always very lively.  For special occasions, The Seaview hotel is 5-10 minutes drive/taxi away and is fantastic. For some fun reading and excellent reviews, (and to add your own) - see this brilliant eating out guide mattandcat.co.uk

Photo Gallery - Local area scenes and wildlife