Elizabeth Castle Apartment in Saint Aubin, Jersey, United Kingdom | Apartments

What could be better than to watch the sun rise and set from the ramparts of your very own castle?
The Jersey Heritage Trust is giving you the unique opportunity to stay at an apartment at Elizabeth Castle, the 17th century castle named after Queen Elizabeth I. The castle is set on an islet 10 minutes walk along a causeway from West Park beach, near St Helier.
A comfortable centrally-heated apartment with large rooms has been created from part of a granite building set in the parade ground of the castle. The islet is surrounded by sea twice a day and arrangements have been made to provide complimentary transport to and from the islet from 9.30am (from mainland) to 5.30pm. Thereafter transport can be arranged by boat at an additional cost. During the day it is open to the public and the black powder cannon is still fired daily. The castle gardien is based on site, but after closing you will have the key to the main gate and the castle is yours to explore.
The history of the castle dates back to the 16th century, an age when cannon and gunpowder had become so common in warfare that the King's main castle in the Channel Islands, Mont Orgueil, was now out of date. A new castle had to be built which was out of range of these new weapons and the site chosen was on this islet in St Aubin's Bay. Work began here during the reign of King Edward Vl in 1550 when a gun platform was built on the highest point of the islet. It was forty years later that his sister, Queen Elizabeth I, sent her military engineer, Paul Ivy, to organise the construction of a new castle. Sir Walter Raleigh, who was governor here between 1600 and 1603, named it after his queen, hence Elizabeth Castle.