About Port Erin
A guide to staying in Port Erin
Port Erin is a Victorian seaside village in the south-west, built around a deep bay closed in by headlands at both ends. The beach is sand, the water is the most sheltered on the island, and the promenade and village run back from it up the slope.
Bradda Head rises at the northern end of the bay, topped by Milner's Tower — built in 1871 in the shape of a lock and key for William Milner, a Liverpool safe-maker who paid for it. The walk up and along the cliffs is short and gives you the bay, the Calf of Man and, on a clear day, the Mourne Mountains across the Irish Sea.
The Isle of Man Steam Railway finishes its run from Douglas here, on the original Victorian narrow-gauge line, which is far and away the best way to arrive. Beyond the village the road carries on to Cregneash — a hill village of thatched Manx cottages kept as a working farm museum — and then down to the Sound, where the tide races through the narrow strait between the island and the Calf of Man.
There are very few places to stay in Port Erin, and they are a mixed handful rather than a category, so there are no separate pages by property type here — everything we list in the village is on this page. It fills up in July and August, which matters more than usual when the supply is this small.