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Planning a Trip to the Isle of Jersey
Passports and Visas:
U.S. citizens do need a passport in the UK and Jersey.
Visa are not usually needed to visit Jersey for a few days or weeks. If you are staying in Jersey, the other islands, UK and the Republic of ireland for more than six months, visit the Jersey government web site for more information.
Poindexter Tour Guide:
Contact Poingdestre Family History Specialist and Official Jersey Blue Badge tour guide, Sue Hardy. Sue is familiar with things to see related to the Poingdestre family in Jersey, in addition to all of Jersey. She is a professional tour guide and may be available for hire to take you right to where all the family history is.
Her address is The Old Coach House, Oxenford, St. Lawrence, Jersey, JE3 1FJ. Sue's phone number from the U.S. is 011-44-1534-863-676.
Also visit the Jersey Web Sites link below to find hotels and guest houses, many you can book online, as well as arrange for car rental, or as they say on Jersey, "car hire".
Links to several hotel and holiday (vacation) web sites for Jersey. Also, links to news media, Jersey government, history, weather, web cams and more. Jersey has luxury hotels, quaint guest houses in historic buildings and B&Bs. I find the Jersey Tourism web site very helpful.
If you are looking for a self catering cottage experience, there are many to choose from. I like La Planque Farm, located on a narrow lane in Trinity Parrish. I stayed in their Old Bake House for a week in 2004. You get to shop for groceries just like a resident of the island. The kitchenette includes a fridge, sink, dishwasher, stove and clothes washer/dryer unit.
A nice guesthouse (small hotel or B&B) experience can also be found in the smaller hotels on the island. In 1999, I stayed in the viallge of St. Albans at the Bon Viveur. The breakfasts were great, but be sure to mention you want your eggs cooked, not runny whites on top. They also serve meals all day and tea. The food is good and the bathrooms very small, after all it is in an old building.
In 2007, I took a small group of eight PDA members to Jersey. I booked rooms at the Fort d'Auvergne Hotel at Havre-des-Pas in St. Helier. They have a live musician some evenings with lots of opportunities to meet new friends visiting from England. You can also have breakfast and dinner here. As susal with hotel rooms, they are small but comfotable.
No matter your needs, rural or town, on the water of away from the hub bub, there are many hotels and guest houses available.
From the PDA's 1998 Tour, information on where we visited on the island, including the Poingdestre manor home of our immigrant George and of St. Saviour, the Poingdestre home parish church.
Geographical and historical information, links.
Maps of Jersey:
- Jersey Virtual Villages zoomable road map
- Tourism's interactive map
- Google Maps
- MultiMap zoomable map is not as detailed as the maps above, but you can zoom out to see where Jersey is in relation to England and France.
Getting to Jersey from the United States:
You can fly to Jersey from the United States via London. Or spend some time in England and take a ferry from a southern coast city. You can also ferry to Jersey from St. Malo, Brittany, France. For airline and ferry information visit the Jersey Tourism web site.
Additional or alternate information can also be found on these web sites:
- Jersey Airport home page
Transportation:
Once in Jersey, you can hire (rent) a car and learn how to drive on the left down narrow lanes. Make sure the B&B or hotel you are staying in has parking available. There is also bus service on parts of the island. Your hotel hosts can advise you on the best way to get around and most will arange for the car hire at special negotiated prices.
How much time?
Sue Hardy can show you everything in six days, but you will not get a lot of time to relax during the day. Castles, manor houses, museums, churches and more. And that's a great way to see Jersey on your first trip.
On subsequent trips and on your own, six days will get you to about half has many places, especially if you are like me (the webmaster). I have been to Jersey four times(1998, 1999, 2004 and 2007). Each time we meet up with Sue for walking tours she was giving. Where Sue got us through Gorey Castle in about two hours during the PDA tour in 1998, it took me a good half day on my second trip in 1999. I took it slower and absorbed more of it.
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