HOTELS: _du Cheval Blanc, de la Paix, &c. Ry. to Paris_.
Trouville (5000 or 6000).--Fashionable and very dear at the best hotels--ample accommodation to suit all purses--good sands--splendid casino--handsome villas, and plenty of apartments. Less bracing than Dieppe or Étretat.
HOTELS: _Roches-Noires, Paris, Bras d'Or, &c. Ry. to Paris._
Deauville.--A scattered assemblage of villas and picturesque houses--very exclusive and select, and dull for a stranger--grand casino--quite a modern town--separated from Trouville by the river Touques.
HOTELS: _Grand, du Casino, &c. Ry. to Paris._
Villers-sur-mer.--A pretty village, six miles from Trouville--crowded during the season--beautiful neighbourhood--good apartments, but expensive--inns moderate.
HOTELS: _du Bras d'Or, Casino, &c. Ry. to Paris._
Houlgate.--One large hotel surrounded by pretty and well-built châlets to be let furnished; also many private villas in gardens--beautiful situation--good sands--small Casino--becoming fashionable and dear--accommodation limited. _Dil. to Trouville, 11 miles_.
Beuzeval.--A continuation of Houlgate, westward; lower, near the mouth of the Dives--one second-rate hotel close to the sands--quiet and reasonable--sea recedes half-a-mile (no boating at Houlgate or Beuzeval)--beautiful neighbourhood--a few villas and apartments--no Établissement. _Dil. to Trouville or Caen_.
Cabourg.--A small, but increasing, town in a fine open situation on the left bank of the Dives--good accommodation and moderate--not as well known as it deserves to be. HOTELS: _de la Plage, Casino, &c. Dil. do. do_.
[Then follow nine or ten minor sea-bathing places, situated north of Caen and Bayeux, in the following order:--Lies, Luc, Lasgrune, St, Aubin, Coutances, Aromanches, Auxelles, Vierville, and Grandcamp; where accommodation is more or less limited, and board and lodging need not cost more than seven or eight francs a-day in the season. They are generally spoken of in French guide-books as, '_bien tristes sans ressources;_' 'fit only for fathers of families'! St. Aubin, about twelve miles from Caen, is one of the best.]
Cherbourg (42,000).--Large, fortified town--bold coast--good bathing--splendid views from the heights--wide streets and squares--docks and harbours--hotels--good and dear. HOTELS: _l'Univers, l'Amirauté, &c. Ry. to Paris_.