Brighton Tours

Brighton Walks (tel: (01273) 888 596; www.brightonwalks.com) offers a number of walks around the city centre, a ghost walk on the first Saturday every month, and other themed walks such as the ‘Murder Walk' and the ‘Lanes Tour', which are available by group booking. An audio tour of Brighton containing three different walks with pre-recorded information is available. Visitors can download the tours from Tourist Tracks (www.tourist-tracks.com) onto their MP3 players, order a tour CD from the same website, or alternatively hire an MP3 player containing the tour from the tourist office.

For a snapshot introduction to the city's landmarks, open-top bus rides run by City Sightseeing Brighton (tel: (01273) 880 123; www.city-sightseeing.com) leave from the Grand Junction Road opposite the coach station. Built in 1883, Volk's Elektric Railway (www.volkselectricrailway.co.uk), Britain's oldest electric railway, runs regularly every day from Easter to mid-September between Brighton Pier and Brighton Marina. Boat trips, whether for pleasure or mackerel fishing, are available from Ross Boat Trips (tel: 07836 262 717; www.rossboattrips.co.uk) at Brighton Marina.