We love this all year round very dog friendly beach. Great even when the tide in. Plenty of parking and a great cafe to boot.
October 2023
Beautiful beach and we had the added bonus of the Rockbox pop up bar being directly behind. If you are staying in hope cove it is worth the 20 minute walk to get here as much better than the hope cove beaches, also has toilet facilities.
September 2023
Lovely sandy beach, easy parking and clean beach
September 2023
Great beach for swimming , paddle boarding and playing with the dog. very good access to food and drink outlets.
September 2023
Lovely location. Walk from Banthan, thru Thurlestone on to South Milton
July 2023
A lovely family beach to enjoy rock pooling with the children.national trust carpark free for members.
July 2023
Beautiful beach, easy access, with lovely cafe and toilets near by.
June 2023
Beautiful beach with sand and rock pools. Canoes etc available to hire at reasonable prices and cafe with great food and drink
June 2023
Beautiful beach for all the family . Dog friendly and good for SUP's and canoes etc.
August 2022
Beautiful beach and safe water.
July 2022
Very clean, Fantastic dog friendly beach
May 2022
very good beach, dog friendly. the road access is via single car lanes with passing places, this seems to work early season apr/may but could be fun in the high season.
May 2022
Wonderful sandy dog friendly beach
May 2022
Lovely walk across the beach
October 2021
Lovely beach. Great for dogs too. The car park is owned by national trust and if you don’t have any money for the parking you need to download the app. Problem there is no signal once you are there to pay for your parking! Best bring change.
September 2021
We walked along to this beach and found it to be a very pleasant.
September 2021
Lovely, clean and not busy
September 2021
fantastic beach - safe and so clean - could hardly believe how clears the water was !
July 2021
Lovely beach. Great catering facilities and clean, free lavatories. The car park is large and as a member of the National Trust parking was free (usually £6)
July 2021
Beautiful sandy beach. Large well organised NT car park which filled up quickly on a sunny weekend. Younger family members enjoyed hiring a paddle board for half an hour. Wet suits a good idea!
June 2021
Lovely sandy beach.
June 2021
Perfect beach for early morning dog walks.
May 2021
Lovely beach with fantastic cafe
April 2021
Fabulous beach, we loved our walks in the morning and early evening
October 2020
Really lovely long stretch of uncrowded sandy beach, ample parking, clear water.
October 2020
Beach is beautiful but steep to walk down from the car park
September 2020
Perfect safe and sandy beach. Lovely and fairly easy walk to/from Hope Cove with great views along the way.
August 2020
Fabulous sandy beach with lots of rock pools to explore at low tide. Ideal for children and dig friendly too
August 2019
Fantastic to be able to walk dogs down there. Nice cafe.
Could do with dog poo bag bins on or near beach
Car parking expensive just to be on beach for half an hour
August 2019
Great beach! Also we enjoyed being able to rent paddle boards.
August 2019
South Milton sands is a beautiful beach. Arrive early to get a good parking space as it does get quite busy. The beach is sand and shingle. £5 per day for parking, great value.
The only shame is that there were too many paddle boards getting in the way of swimmers. Maybe a cordened off area for swimmers would be better.
August 2019
We walked over from Hope Cove and found it a pretty unattractive beach with a massive pipe leading out to sea and a horrible sewage smell. Happy we hadn't bothered to go there for a day out!
July 2019
We loved this beach and returned a number of times during our stay. Safe shallow water for the family with some good waves for body-boarding as the tide came in and friendly life guards in attendance all day! Easy access from the car park - facilities nearby and dog friendly - everything we needed! We also enjoyed the cliff top walk to nearby hope cove on one afternoon.
July 2019
A lovely beach with plenty to look at. Dogs are allowed - very good for children if supervised.
June 2019
Lovely beach, stunning views and a safe place for children to rock pool, and swim. Spoiled for us by the large numbers of kite surfers dominating the water along with the surf school who took little account of those families enjoying the beach ordering people out of the water when they had a schooling session on. Words were had. They need to understand it isn't their property and if people want to enjoy the beach, they need to move to a spot where they aren't bothering people.
Good car parking and a nice little cafe selling cakes/flapjacks and coffee with WC next to it, so beach-goers are well catered for. Could have done without the thump thump music and bar flies in shades but that's typical of many such places these days.
On the whole a great beach with decent accessibility via car or foot and preferable in many ways to the larger beach at Thurlestone during peak times, and preferable to the beaches at Hope Cove when busy.
June 2019
great beach only bad thing is its owned by the national trust and parking is £5.00 no matter how short or long you want to stay no option of paying by the hour
October 2018
A great beach but at £5 a day to visit (National Trust!) rather expensive. Variable rate better.
October 2018
Excellent beach, well maintained and dogs allowed all year round.
Great range of activities to enjoy from swimming, snorkelling, SUP, kite surfing, kayaking and scrambling when the tide is out.
Loved it and will return
June 2018
Amazin beach - especially when the tide goes out and all the rock pools come out to play!!! Shame about the coarse 'sand', but that can't be helped; just get some shingle shoes. If you want sand go to North Sands or Bantham!
August 2017
A glorious beach! Dog friendly, sandy, rock pools at the far end. Parking handy, spectacular views - the stone arch beats Durdle Door in my mind..... Delightful. Loved it.
July 2017
Fabulous dog friendly beach with amazing views
June 2017
Fantastic sandy beach for everything, rock pools, building sandcastles body boarding.
April 2017
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