Short answer: Beer sits in a gap in the white chalk cliffs, so the bay is sheltered. The Anchor Inn has the best view in the village from the cliff above the beach, and the Hooken undercliff is one of the strangest walks in Devon.
The beach and the cliffs, free. Beer is a working fishing village, so boats are still winched up onto the shingle in late December and life carries on in a way it does not in the holiday villages.
Between Beer Head and Branscombe — a landslip of dramatic chalk pinnacles and one of the strangest walks in Devon. Partly sheltered by the cliff structure itself, which helps in weather.
Sheltered shingle at the foot of white chalk cliffs. The walk down from the village is short but genuinely steep.
Beer Head Bistro up at the caravan park has easy parking and a bay view, if the climb back up is the problem.
Ring before you set off. Boxing Day hours are decided late, change year to year, and are the single thing most likely to be wrong online. A two-minute call beats a wasted drive.
Beer Quarry Caves close over the Christmas period. In normal weeks they sit at a constant eight degrees, which makes them warmer underground than outside in winter — but not on Boxing Day.
Seaton is five minutes east with a long flat esplanade and a free wetland reserve, if the steep walk down to Beer's beach does not suit the group.
If you want to eat out, book now rather than in December. The places that do serve on Boxing Day fill weeks ahead, and the ones that do not take bookings have queues instead.
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