Description
Long, sandy beach, popular with families & sunbathers, with colourful huts that can be hired.
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Reviews
5
This is a lovely beach quite safe for familys as the beach just slopes gradually so no shelf to deal with 2 pubs for food paddle boarding available here too. Couple of kiosks for snacks and ice creams, go karts and a small water park.
5
I love Preston Sands, go there regularly to walk the dog. But since 1st May dogs not allowed on the beach, until end of September. Booooo!! I understand why, it's more important for the council to receive the blue flag award for the beach and it's cleanliness, to attract more tourists to the bay. However, the seagulls make as much if not more, mess than the dogs, and can be Vicious stealing food from tourists. This year the seagulls seam worse than ever. Because we had a mild winter and because the seagulls are fed so well, they started breeding in February this year, usually not until May. So come the Autumn they will have had 3 lots of baby gulls. Most of last winter there were young fledglings, the ones with grey feathers, all over the beach and parks. They are a nuisance and are not an asset to us as a seaside town.
4
Great beach for a beach day. It was very busy when we visited but it has nice beach huts and a food kiosk. Could do with more food and ice cream stalls in summer.
3
This place was good as the cliffs looked good and got lots of pictures. There were lots of beach huts next to the sea and the smell was amazing. Would recommend.
4
We visited Paignton for the half-term and one of the activities we enjoyed was a boat cruise from Paignton to Torquay. It was beautiful experience, we could see and learned from our host about some historical landmarks like the singer family home, the Grand hotel used by Agatha Christie for a wedding anniversary, a few of the harbours , it's a children and dog friendly beach. Good for going for walks or run. We could see the beach from our apartment. We hope to visit sometime next summer.
5
Beach houses all along the side at the top of the pavement. All different colours, and different coloured lights which light up at night time. It is a lovely walk heading up to paignton beach.