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n. A coastal location specialising in catering for holidays (vacations).
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A seaside resort is a resort town or resort hotel, located on the coast. Sometimes it is also an officially accredited title, that is only awarded to a town when the requirements are met (like the title Seebad in Germany).
Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort.
Usage examples of "seaside resort".
The friendly seaside resort -- where sea baths were taken as early as 1823 -- with its low-lying fishing village and dome-surmounted casino, its medium-high dunes and scrub pine forest, with its fishing boats, its hundred and fifty feet of pier, and its tripartite bathhouse, with the watch-tower of the German Lifesaving Society, was situated exactly halfway between Neufahrwasser and Glettkau on the shores of the Gulf of Danzig.
In a little bar of the seaside resort of Cabourg we then sat together that evening with other paratroopers who had descended on my combat area during the night in question.
In 1348 it was the place where the Black Death was introduced into England and in 1789 it became the world's first seaside resort when that tedious lunatic George III started a fashion for sea-bathing there.
Brutus and the girls to the seaside resort of Cumae, where he had a villa.
But in the event their destination proved to be Dinard, a seaside resort like any other place.
Perhaps a port or seaside resort, long ago demolished, with the remnants left for wind and rain to dissolve.
A fully loaded cement truck would never make it, and without cement you've got no goddamned seaside resort.
But his letter to the editor shows a literate, creative mind, and he mentions Dieppe, the seaside resort and artists' haven where Sickert would have houses and secret rooms for almost half of his life.
No private income for him, no cosy little flat in a seaside resort.
When I last heard from him, he was staying at a certain seaside resort and he stated in his letter that he was returning on the following day to his rooms in London.
The Rock was the nickname for what had formerly been a seaside resort hotel that La Plante had ".