Guidebook for Douglas, Isle of Man
Food Scene
Great tasting coffee, personal and friendly service with a smile... delicious cakes too!
Spill the Beans Coffee House
1 Market HillGreat tasting coffee, personal and friendly service with a smile... delicious cakes too!
Great menu mainly fish dishes, local produce, friendly staff, vibrant atmosphere, quay side setting.
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Little Fish Cafe
30 N QuayGreat menu mainly fish dishes, local produce, friendly staff, vibrant atmosphere, quay side setting.
Great menu, lots of choices of local fresh fish, good atmosphere, we go there for special occasions and always take friends or recommend.
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Tanroagan Seafood Restaurant
9 Ridgeway StreetGreat menu, lots of choices of local fresh fish, good atmosphere, we go there for special occasions and always take friends or recommend.
Interesting selections on menu, as well as classic coffee choices. Good for snack lunch, brunch, or just cake! Relaxed atmosphere.
The Alpine
5 Regent StInteresting selections on menu, as well as classic coffee choices. Good for snack lunch, brunch, or just cake! Relaxed atmosphere.
Fab bakery with plenty of extras - local produce, healthy choices, interesting menu, good value, relaxed friendly buzzing atmosphere, friendly staff
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Noa Bakehouse (Fort St Bakery)
Peveril Square(Kerrin Peveril)Fab bakery with plenty of extras - local produce, healthy choices, interesting menu, good value, relaxed friendly buzzing atmosphere, friendly staff
Wine Down
24 Duke StBistro food, locally sourced produce, meats and fish, a reliably great place to eat.
Offering coffee and cake or lunch/dinner great surroundings, historic Manx building, and you can visit the gardens too for a small fee.
Milntown Estate and Gardens
Lezayre RoadOffering coffee and cake or lunch/dinner great surroundings, historic Manx building, and you can visit the gardens too for a small fee.
Drinks & Nightlife
bath & bottle
6 Victoria StGreat cocktail menu, vibrant atmosphere.
Good old fashioned pub, no food or gimmicks, just a great pint, with local beers as well as guest ales.
The Woodbourne
19 Alexander DrGood old fashioned pub, no food or gimmicks, just a great pint, with local beers as well as guest ales.
Arts & Culture
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Isle of Man, its people, history, wildlife, interesting and varied displays, some interactive. Free entry. Also temporary exhibitions.
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맨섬 박물관
1 Kingswood GroveEverything you ever wanted to know about the Isle of Man, its people, history, wildlife, interesting and varied displays, some interactive. Free entry. Also temporary exhibitions.
Brand new library, NOTE: no longer on Victoria Street, just moved to corner of Duke Street and Lord Street. Relaxing and comfortable, with computers you can use for a fee, free wifi (ask at the desk for the code), daily local and national newspapers, coffee and water machines.
Henry Bloom Noble Library station
10-12 Victoria StBrand new library, NOTE: no longer on Victoria Street, just moved to corner of Duke Street and Lord Street. Relaxing and comfortable, with computers you can use for a fee, free wifi (ask at the desk for the code), daily local and national newspapers, coffee and water machines.
Beautiful theatre dating from 1899, just a stunning experience to see any show in such historic surroundings. Tours of the theatre are available.
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Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man
Harris PromenadeBeautiful theatre dating from 1899, just a stunning experience to see any show in such historic surroundings. Tours of the theatre are available.
Preserved traditional Manx village, with displays and re-enactments of traditional way of life and crafting.
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Cregneash
Preserved traditional Manx village, with displays and re-enactments of traditional way of life and crafting.
Entertainment & Activities
Iconic building on Douglas sea front, houses a cinema showing latest released, but also in the main hall music and comedy events. Beautiful building, public gardens, colonnade, and next to the Gaiety Theatre.
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Villa marina
15 Harris PromenadeIconic building on Douglas sea front, houses a cinema showing latest released, but also in the main hall music and comedy events. Beautiful building, public gardens, colonnade, and next to the Gaiety Theatre.
25 m swimming pool, fun pool with features and slides. Badminton, bowls, squash, sauna and jacuzzi, cafe.
National Sports Centre
56 Groves Rd25 m swimming pool, fun pool with features and slides. Badminton, bowls, squash, sauna and jacuzzi, cafe.
Palace Cinema, Douglas
Central PromenadeCinema showing latest releases.
Sea kayaking, gorge walking, coasteering, to mention a few activities offered by this professional and highly experienced local company, for those who want to see the Island's nature and wildlife from a new angle, with some adrenalin thrown in.
Adventurous Experiences Adventure Sports Centre
Sea kayaking, gorge walking, coasteering, to mention a few activities offered by this professional and highly experienced local company, for those who want to see the Island's nature and wildlife from a new angle, with some adrenalin thrown in.
A whole range of outdoor activities and excursions run by an experienced and professional team, for adults and children.
The Venture Centre
A whole range of outdoor activities and excursions run by an experienced and professional team, for adults and children.
Essentials
On Woodbourne Road, it's the closest grocery store offering all essentials for your stay.
The Cooperative Food
On Woodbourne Road, it's the closest grocery store offering all essentials for your stay.
Parks & Nature
This plantation has a main fire track you can complete in an hour or so, depending on pace, but also lots of side tracks which are mainly for mountain bike riding but can also be walked, there has been a lot of work done to make the plantation more interesting and interactive with a children's playground and cycle track, new trails, an area around the lake with information boards and picnic benches.
Archallagan Plantation
This plantation has a main fire track you can complete in an hour or so, depending on pace, but also lots of side tracks which are mainly for mountain bike riding but can also be walked, there has been a lot of work done to make the plantation more interesting and interactive with a children's playground and cycle track, new trails, an area around the lake with information boards and picnic benches.
Laxey beach is very picturesque, in a sheltered bay, mainly stony but sandy at low tide, little cafe selling ice creams and sandwiches etc.
Laxey
Laxey beach is very picturesque, in a sheltered bay, mainly stony but sandy at low tide, little cafe selling ice creams and sandwiches etc.
Port Erin and Port St Mary offer sandy and sheltered beaches, pleasant walks along promenades, pleasant villages, small shops, ice creams, go back in time...
Port Erin, Port St Mary
Port Erin and Port St Mary offer sandy and sheltered beaches, pleasant walks along promenades, pleasant villages, small shops, ice creams, go back in time...
Sunset city, Peel offers a sandy main beach, and secondly Fenella beach which is a mix of sand and stones/shells, promenade, ice creams, cafes, quirky village, antique shops, peel castle
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Peel
Sunset city, Peel offers a sandy main beach, and secondly Fenella beach which is a mix of sand and stones/shells, promenade, ice creams, cafes, quirky village, antique shops, peel castle
Arboretum, lovely for a pleasant stroll though trees and shrubs, with a small lake, next to Tynwald hill, site of the annual open air meeting of the Island's parliament on 5 July, the hill is thought to date back to 13 century.
Also, enjoy a very tasty and reasonably priced lunch or just tea and cake at Greens, opposite Tynwald hill.
Saint John's
Arboretum, lovely for a pleasant stroll though trees and shrubs, with a small lake, next to Tynwald hill, site of the annual open air meeting of the Island's parliament on 5 July, the hill is thought to date back to 13 century.
Also, enjoy a very tasty and reasonably priced lunch or just tea and cake at Greens, opposite Tynwald hill.
The Mooragh Park has a lake to walk around, or boat or canoe in, a children's playground, tennis courts, Costa coffee, ice cream shop.
Mooragh Promenade
Mooragh PromenadeThe Mooragh Park has a lake to walk around, or boat or canoe in, a children's playground, tennis courts, Costa coffee, ice cream shop.
Park and children's playground, leading to pleasant walk in Silverdale Glen, boating lake, boat hire, cafe.
Silverdale
Park and children's playground, leading to pleasant walk in Silverdale Glen, boating lake, boat hire, cafe.
Dhoon Beach
Walk down Dhoon glen to the beach, steep but worth it, super waterfalls, secluded beach.
Glenmaye
Lovely glen, great waterfalls, good well maintained paths, emerging onto stony beach.
Pleasant glen, reaching from Groudle beach and going into Molly Quirk's glen, so two glens for one! Well maintained paths.
Groudle Glen
Pleasant glen, reaching from Groudle beach and going into Molly Quirk's glen, so two glens for one! Well maintained paths.
Great walk from Bradda Glen all the way up to Milner's tower. You can then turn back or choose to follow the coastal Raad ny Follian footpath to Fleshwick, a small beach, there is a footpath that returns to Port Erin via Surby.
Bradda Head
Great walk from Bradda Glen all the way up to Milner's tower. You can then turn back or choose to follow the coastal Raad ny Follian footpath to Fleshwick, a small beach, there is a footpath that returns to Port Erin via Surby.
Port Soderick
Another lovely glen for a pleasant stroll, stoney beach.
Glen Helen
Beautiful glen ending in small waterfall, good well maintained path.
Sightseeing
Castle in the ancient capital of the Isle of Man, interactive displays and restored rooms with traditional furnishings and models. Fantastic views from the ramparts, access to most of the castle including the dungeon.
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캐슬 러셴
Castle StreetCastle in the ancient capital of the Isle of Man, interactive displays and restored rooms with traditional furnishings and models. Fantastic views from the ramparts, access to most of the castle including the dungeon.
Ruins of Peel Castle, built by the Vikings in the 11th Century, with plenty of nooks and crannies to explore, fortifications, dungeons, audio tour, views of Peel and the West of the island.
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필 성
Ruins of Peel Castle, built by the Vikings in the 11th Century, with plenty of nooks and crannies to explore, fortifications, dungeons, audio tour, views of Peel and the West of the island.
The largest working waterwheel in the world. A brilliant example of Victorian engineering she was built in 1854 to pump water from the Laxey mines. A climb to the top is rewarded with panoramic views across the Laxey Valley.
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Laxey Wheel
The largest working waterwheel in the world. A brilliant example of Victorian engineering she was built in 1854 to pump water from the Laxey mines. A climb to the top is rewarded with panoramic views across the Laxey Valley.