Category:Visitor Information Centre

  Disappeared Brighton  coordinates: 50.82211899, -0.13815584

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2011: The Visitor Information Centre before its closure [image info]

~2012?: A leaflet produced by VisitBrighton promoting the Visitor Information Centre, front and back [image info]

2013? VisitBrighton walking map of North Laine, and Visitor Information Centre [image info]

The Brighton Visitor Information Centre used to be located at 4-5 Pavilion Buildings, Brighton BN1 1EE . The centre used to offer a single point of access for all visitor information and visitor services, including hotel bookings and the sale of combined tickets. Its location alongside the Pavilion was especially useful as most daytrippers to Brighton would be headed towards the Pavilion (or to the pier beyond) anyway

The Centre was then joined by a satellite Visitor Information Point at Brighton Toy and Model Museum, to provide maps and basic information for visitors who had just arrived in Brighton by rail (and forward more complex enquiries to the Centre).

The Centre then unfortunately closed, a casualty of Brighton Council's need to reduce spending.

Replacements

The Centre's functions have now been (partially) taken over by a constellation of Visitor Information Points dotted around Brighton.

The Centre is sorely missed, but some of the original functions of its staffed information desks are arguably less critical, now that so many people have the ability to search for landmarks and call up maps via their mobile phones.

"The Brighton Centre" VIP

Some of the "advanced" functions of the old Visitor Information Centre are available through the Information Point in the Brighton Centre, by the seafront, but this VIP has limited opening times.

Online

The city's official online tourist information is available from VisitBrighton, at www.visitbrighton.com,

Addresses

• Brighton Visitor Information Centre, 4-5 Pavilion Buildings, Brighton BN1 1EE (until ~2013)

External links

• VisitBrighton's homepage (visitbrighton.com)
• "Brighton's Visitor Information Centre replaced by pop-up points", by Tim Ridgway (theargus.co.uk) – 30th September 2013
  • "Closure of Brighton's Visitor Information Centre is still hard to take" (theargus.co.uk) – 1st October 2013