If you have a yearning for ancient castles, quintessentially English seaside towns and sprawling country estates, look no further than the area surrounding Gatwick. More than just an airport location, Gatwick is within easy reach of London as well as close to numerous tourist attractions.

Drive your Gatwick Airport hire car down to one of the jewels in Gatwick’s crown, the award-winning beach of Littlehampton. Here you’ll engage with a countryside so tranquil English and a seaside so quintessentially English, you may never want to leave! Up for something a little livelier, then off you drive to nearby cosmopolitan Brighton. There may not be a sandy beach, but between the Pavillion, the nightclubs and designer shops, you will cope I’m sure! The life and soul of the south coast, Brighton is popular for memorable Hen nights!

For incredible scenery, architecture and sublime gardens zip off over to Elizabethan Parham House and Gardens, Petworth House and Park and all about the countryside of Storrington. Eleventh century Arundel Castle is situated here as are the nearby Wetlands reserve.