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Arromanches-les-Bains is a seaside village near Bayeux in Calvados. It's best known for its pivotal role among the D-Day beaches, the Allied landings of 6 June 1944.
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D-Day Museum
Fascinating museum with information about the Gold Beach landings, the war in Normandy and a comprehensive insight into the construction and use of the Mulberry harbours. Gold Beach was the central of the five beaches, assaulted by mostly British forces. The museum has shorter opening hours out of high season and is closed for most of January. The current museum, inaugurated in 2023, replaced the original museum, built in 1954.
360 degree footage of the landings on HD screens. Beware! It is a steep climb from the town up to Arromanches 360.
Several phoenix caissons and beetle pontoons from the 1944 Mulberry Harbour are still visible. One caisson is close to shore and you can walk to it at low tide. Out in the bay are two long sections and one short section, likened by Julian Barnes (in Flaubert's Parrot) to a Morse signal. These are interesting snorkelling and scuba-diving spots for their encrusting marine life, but watch out for sharp projections from the steel reinforcement rods.
This is really a military curiosity shop. Still, anyone who would sell off those bayonets, helmets and motorbike parts has learned a trick or two from the liberating Allied soldiers.
Museum covers the landings and also the first US transatlantic mail plane of 1927, which ditched near here.
Small friendly bar and, mysteriously, it isn't deserted. Does bar food.
The former Camping Municipal is now an Aire de Camping Car.
Basic but clean edge-of-town site.
Long-established mid-range place usually gets it right.
Simple hotel with good restaurant.
Charming clean hotel in 19th C stone building at the west edge of town. But, and it's a big but, this hotel was infamous in June 2019, the 75th anniversary of the landings. Accommodation in town was obviously at a premium and one veteran of the landings had booked months in advance, paying €2000 deposit. He was old and frail, and both he and his wife died a few days before the trip. The hotel instantly re-sold the room to other customers but would they refund the deposit? Non non non.
Nomad bus line 121 operates between Bayeux and Courseulles-sur-Mer with stops in Arromanches (Avenue de Verdun and, sometimes, Cinéma 360). Check the current timetable carefully.
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