Discover Local Brittany Coasts: What to Do Around Mercure Brittany Coasts

At Mercure, we believe you shouldn't need a guidebook to feel like you belong somewhere. That's the idea behind Discover Local: since 1973, every Mercure hotel has been built around its neighbourhood, not just dropped into it — from the décor on the walls to the flavours on the menu. Step into any Mercure and our teams are on hand with the kind of tips you won't find in a guidebook: the market stall locals queue for, the bar where nobody speaks English, the walk that skips the crowds. They live here. They know. Discover Local isn't a generic city guide — it's a short, honest list of the restaurants, markets and neighbourhoods our own hotel teams actually recommend to guests, updated as the city changes around us. Below, you'll find our picks for Brittany Coasts, an interactive map to help you find your way, and answers to the questions travellers ask us most. So — where will Discover Local take you?

Brittany Coasts in 5 picks

Saint-Malo

A walled corsair city with intact ramparts you can walk almost the whole way around, looking out over the English Channel.

Dinard

Belle Époque villas and striped beach tents line the shore here, a resort town that still feels like a step back into the 19th century.

Cancale

A fishing port built around oysters, with tastings served straight off the quay and a reputation that draws visitors from well beyond Brittany.

Perros-Guirec

Thirteen kilometres of coastline and three sandy beaches, on the edge of the Pink Granite Coast.

Ploumanac'h

Home to the pink granite boulders that give this coast its name, shaped by wind and sea over roughly 300 million years.

Where to eat
Cancale is the reference point for oysters here, best eaten right where they're farmed. Inland from the coast, buckwheat galettes and crêpes are the everyday staple — savoury galette first, sweet crêpe after, in that order.
Coastal walks
The GR34, also known as the customs officers' path, runs the length of this coastline, with a particularly striking stretch between Perros-Guirec and Ploumanac'h through the pink granite rock formations.
Getting around
Saint-Malo and Dinard face each other across the same estuary and are linked by a passenger ferry across the water, quicker than driving around. Reaching the Pink Granite Coast further west, around Perros-Guirec, is best done by car — wherever you're staying across our Mercure hotels on the Brittany coasts, the drive threads through smaller fishing villages worth stopping in along the way.
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FAQ

Oysters are farmed and served here year-round, with the harvest often considered best in the cooler months, though the quayside stalls operate for most of the year.

A passenger ferry crosses the estuary between the two in a matter of minutes, a quicker option than the drive around the bay.

Yes — this stretch of the GR34 is one of the most striking parts of the Pink Granite Coast, winding past rock formations shaped over roughly 300 million years.

Where to sleep

See our Mercure hotels across Brittany Coasts, ideally placed to explore these picks.

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Where to sleep

See our Mercure hotels across Brittany Coasts, ideally placed to explore these picks

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