Jersey Island Travel
Jersey Overview
The island of Jersey is the largest and southernmost of the British Channel islands. It lies in the English Channel, northwest of France. The island enjoys a temperate climate with mild winters and cool summers. The best time to visit the island is between the Easter season and early October.
Jersey Main Attractions
Apart from the enormous selection of beaches around Jersey, the islands are home to a wealth of popular tourist attractions, many of which remain open all through the year, such as the cinema multiplex, different pools with cool slides and facilities, and interesting back garden open to the public in aid of charity.
Another attraction of Jersey is the 45 square miles of lush and green landscape that is home to a wildlife park. Jersey combines its landscape, 50 miles of designated bike and horse riding routes, network of coastal footpaths and golden stretches of sandy beaches with a continental climate. Jersey Zoo or simply Durrell is the wildlife park. It plays an important part in world conservation as it has served as a home to a number of species on the brink of extinction.
Jersey Activities
The best way to enjoy the day in Jersey is joining the locals by spending any spare time on the. You can do lots of body boarding, Blo Karting, cliff walking and kayaking. You can also spend your free time relaxing in the beach and enjoying the music of nature or even walking or cycling around the island and get a chance to indulge to beautiful sceneries of the island.
Jersey Accommodation & Dining
An accommodation guide produced by Jersey Tourism makes finding a place to stay for your holiday easy. You can find numerous of guesthouses, hotels and apartments around the island. They all provide quality service and splendid interior design and architecture. These will assure you of a superb vacation that suits different taste. Jersey has an abundance of excellent restaurants covering most tastes. In particular a lot of French, Italian and Portuguese styles. Chinese, Indian and Thai are well represented too.
Jersey Shopping & Nightlife
For a small island, Jersey has lively and loud nights. There are lots of bars and quite a few different clubs. If you’re 18 years of age and like to drink, forget about it. They don’t allow minors to do irresponsible drinking. Spending an evening could not be complete without the good music scene as late night live entertainment. With Jersey’s unique position as a world leading offshore finance center and a relaxed holiday destination, a fantastic selection of shops can be found, from world leading jewelers to La Mare Vineyard selling Jersey-made black butter and cider. Shopping is superb in Jersey for the benefits with only 3% Goods and Services Tax compared to the UK with VAT at 17.5%.
Getting To & Around Jersey
You can reach Jersey using Jersey Airport. Air France, Flybe, British Airways, and Aurigny Airlines offer regular flights from London airports and other UK mainland airports. Aer Lingus offers regular flights from Dublin, Ireland. There are also ferries services from/to Guernsey and direct ferry rides from UK and France.
