Branksome Dene Chine (BDC)

The water is clean and safe, although it may sometimes be on the cool side of warm ! The beach has golden white sand and slowly and gradually slopes away to the water There is a car park for Branksome Dene Chine, as well as on-road parking. As you would expect when the weather is good, the relatively small car park fills up very quickly. The available on road-parking is close to the beach although it does entail a walk down and back up from the beach. There are very good facilities on the promenade, including toilets (with disabled facilities), ice-cream kiosks and you can easily reach the hot-dog/burger bars as well as the Restaurant / Cafe at Bransome Chine which offers a selection of hot & cold meals throughout the year, further along the prom.You are very close to Bournemouth and it's attractions here, and you can easily walk into Bournemouth along the front, being a level and fairly easy walk. Branksome Chine is similar to Sandbanks but works better when there’s more westerly in the wind giving cross-shore sailing. Occasionally it picks up the swell quicker too.