Honfleur offers events all-year round (Russian film festival, American film festival in Deauville, fête de la crevette...). You can visit the surrounding farms and castles or simply drive along the coast road to visit the DDay landing beaches which are less than 1 hour away.

There are a number of shops and services nearby, such as mini-markets, doctor’s surgery, pharmacy, cash machine, bureau de change and mini-market. With the supermarket approximately 500 m away.

Sports and leisure in the area include a watersports centre which provides equipment hire and courses for windsurfing and catamaran sailing.
There is the Golf Club of Caen (45 km), which has 18-hole and compact 9-hole courses, practice range and putting-green. Plus the Barrière de Deauville Golf course nearby and the Saint-Gatien-des Bois golf course between Deauville and Honfleur (both providing 18 holes and 9 holes). There is also a 6-hole practice range 10 km away.

Horse-riding is available at the "L'Oxer" centre in Tourgeville / Deauville, this includes instruction, techniques, and rides on the beach.

Deauville municipal club on the beach provides 19 tennis courts (11 clay, 8 quick clay).

For children there is “Club Mickey” (3-14 years), located on the beach. Dancing, judo, climbing, team sports and watersports, competitions, snacks and swimming lessons are available. For older children there is the Teen Club (12-18 years) with Deauville-Loisirs next to the “Etablissement des Bains de Mer”. Sailing, windsurfing, tennis, table tennis, sand yachting, volleyball, bodyboarding, board games and swimming pool activities possible.

Resort Fêtes and events:
June : “Journées Romantiques and “Journée Européenne“ Film Festival at Cabourg (20 km).
July : The Sea and Mackerel Festival in Trouville (2 km) and "Swing in Deauville" by Barriere Casino in Deauville.
August : “Festijazz” in Houlgate: 3 days of jazz concerts all over the resort (14 km).
September : Festival of American Film in Deauville and “Top Résa” International Tourism Trade Fair in Deauville.
October : Paris-Deauville vintage car rally and International Horse-Drawn Carriage, 04-05 October Fête de la Crevette in Honfleur. Competition in Deauville: 2 exceptional weeks celebrating horses, bringing together the entire horse world with a huge number of events throughout the Calvados region.
November : Russian Film Festival in Honfleur.

Deauville is famous for its many international events, as well as its horse racing, golf , luxury shops, its beach with the famous boardwalk, its casino, fairs and festivals. The Villa Strassburger, the Old School, the Old Presbytery and Saint Laurent's Chapel. Trouville also known as Deauville's twin also offers a lovely seafront, a high end Casino as well as many pitoresque streets.

The largest military landing in history took place in Normandy June 6, 1944. Museums, monuments, bunkers and cemeteries are a lasting tribute to the Battle of Normandy, a unique experience and a must see.

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