East Sussex, England is a popular diverse vacation destination. Diverse types of vacations can be taken ranging from South Downs walking vacations to seaside vacations. East Sussex really does offer an amazing range of vacation opportunities.

A great many people enjoy a trip to the seaside and the southern part of the county of East Sussex has an extensive stretch of coastline, along which you will find towns such as Hastings, Brighton, Eastbourne and Bexhill-on-Sea.

The most well known East Sussex seaside resort is Brighton, the largest settlement by the seaside in Great Britain. Before the 18 th Century Brighton was little more than a small fishing village however around 1750 a nearby physician started to suggest that his patients should bathe in, and drink, seawater for their health, saying that the seawater around Brighton was the best. A few years later, in seventeen eighty, Georgian terraces began to appear and the tourism industry in Brighton had  begun.

Tourism was increased further by a visit by the Prince Regent (later King George IV) in in the year seventeen eighty three and again with the arrival of the railway in 1841 (delivering huge numbers of day-trippers from the surrounding area and as far away as London). Today the city gets around 8 million visitors annually and at times it seems that you can hardly move for Brighton bed and breakfasts and tourists.

Another popular East Sussex seaside town is Eastbourne. Located at the east end of the South Downs, it is one of Great Britain’s most sunny towns. Eastbourne’s main industry is tourism and it has the typical pier alongside various other visitor attractions such as four theatres, numerous parks & gardens, a beach (shingle) and museums, as well as interesting features such as the bandstand. Luckily it is relatively easy to find cheap bed and breakfast, at the least somewhat cheaper than many bed & breakfasts in Brighton.

As well as the 2 popular seaside resorts discussed above, East Sussex also has the lesser, but very beautiful, seaside towns of Bexhill-on-Sea, Hastings and Rye, and also a great many inland towns of interest such as the former market towns of Uckfield, Hailsham and Heathfield. Another town of interest in East Sussex definitely worth visiting is  Crowborough in the Ashdown Forest, also Battle and the county town of Lewes as well as many others.