The overlooked city with the UK’s cheapest pints – with 3 beaches and award winning attractions
AN OVERLOOKED city in the north of the UK has three beaches, great tourist attractions and now the cheapest pints in the country.
The average cost of a pint in London is as much as £6, but there are places elsewhere in the UK where a beer can be found for almost half that cost.
The cheapest, according to hotel company Accor, is Hull, where a drink can be bought on average for £3.33.
Accor analysed data from Numbeo and Experian, along with ONS statistics on each area’s weekly average income to unveil the average cost of a pint in every UK city.
Completing the top five most affordable UK destinations for a pint are Aberdeen, Coventry, Dundee, and Cardiff, all boasting average prices that remain below £4.
Birmingham, Plymouth, Sheffield, Newcastle and Nottingham finished off the top ten.
There’s much more to Hull than cheep booze, however, with three beaches nearby.
The nearest of those is Tunstall beach, which is described as “a lesser used sandy beach”, with “a huge amount of space so it never feels busy, even in the summer months” by Yorkshire Beaches.
Day Out With the Kids have described it as “a tranquil beach that’s off the beaten track” as well as “a great place for fishing”.
Elsewhere, there’s Mappleton Beach and Hornsea Beach, with the former a sand and shingle beach with plenty of space for families to enjoy.
The latter is a blue flag beach near the UK’s best chippy, Whitehead’s Fish & Chips.
The takeaway took top spot at this year’s National Fish & Chip Awards.
Fish can’t only be eaten in Hull however, with one of the country’s best aquariums, The Deep, a great place to observe them.
The attraction is listed as the top thing to do on Hull’s TripAdvisor list and has won plenty of awards over the last 15 years.
It describes itself as “one of the most spectacular aquariums in the world” and is home to sharks, turtles, penguins and the UK’s only Green sawfish.
One TripAdvisor reviewer wrote: “To see so many underwater and land species was spectacular. Went as a couple but was amazing for children of all ages.”
The aquarium can be found in a “dramatic” building overlooking the Humber estuary, but it’s certainly not the most famous landmark over the river.
That title belongs to the Humber bridge, which holds the record as the longest single span suspension bridge that can be walked or cycled over in the world.
Elsewhere in the city there’s the Streetlife Museum of Transport, a free exhibit that transports visitors to the 1940s with trams and a carriage ride.
The museum can be found on the cobbled streets of the Old Town and along with the East Riding Museum of Archaeology, home to a life-size woolly mammoth.
Hull Minster is also high on the list of tourist attractions and is the largest parish church in England by floor area.
It contains what is widely acknowledged to be some of “the finest medieval brick-work in the country,” according to Hull What’s On.
A night in Hull can be found from £39 for two. Camping options in nearby Tunstall start from around £13 per night.
Meanwhile, this UK city was named one of the most underrated travel destinations in the world.
And another UK city is home to the “biggest beach ever“.