A wide stretch of sand at the foot of a wooded chine, with a café, parking and more room than the beaches nearer the harbour mouth.
Branksome Chine has more room than the beaches closer to the harbour mouth, and a wooded valley behind it for shade.
Parking is in the chine itself, a café and facilities sit behind the sand, and lifeguards patrol in season.
Branksome Dene, a little further on, is quieter again and has year-round dog access on parts of it. See the beaches guide.
There is pay-and-display parking in the chine behind the beach, which fills on hot summer days but is generally easier than the Sandbanks peninsula.
Yes. There is room on the sand, a café and facilities, lifeguard cover in season, and the wooded chine behind gives shade when the beach is too hot.
Sandbanks hotels, harbourside flats a street back from the Quay and the quieter beds out at Hamworthy and Broadstone, with the areas each one suits.