Skegness Attractions

Bottons Pleasure Beach in Skegness has got a new thrill ride for 2010.

The Extreme ride cost half a million quid and will be up an running in time for the opening season in March 2010.

I’ve been down and had a look and my son and I are looking forward to trying it out when we next go to Bottons this year.

It’s good to see that Bottons keeps up with the times and gets in new rides. When we first came to Skegness in 2006 the Rocking Roller was their new ride.

Shame Bottons doesn’t improve the Ghost Train to be as good as the Ghost Trains at Brighton or Blackpool, hint, hint

I had to laugh when a 4 year old came off the Ghost Train in a huff, his grandad chased after him and asked what was wrong and the little boy shouted “It was Crap” and folded his arms and stamped a foot.

The Skegness Sunshine Kiddies Play area can be found to the side of the Pier Field on the Skegness waterway

The Sunshine play area is a new play ground for kids aged 3-14 years old, it’s bright colourful and a lovely modern park for the kids to let off some steam, it is the best free play ground in Skegness

The Sunshine play area has a range of play equipment for the little ones there’s: Animal Rockers, Climbing Box and little Slide, games and the Cargo Net Swing.

For older kids there is: Bungee Swing, Climbing Tower and Slide, Zip Line and a Cargo Net Swing.

There has been some vandalism on the park with broken glass and the play equipment being damaged. The glass is cleared up quiet quickly by the Skegness Town Council each morning, but there has been complaints by holiday makers about teenagers using the park irresponsibly and making them feel intimidated by their presence.

The Fairy Dell Paddling Pool can be found at the Skegness Boating Lake. To find the paddling pool go over the bridge and the free paddling pool can be found on the other side.

The Fairy Dell Paddling Pool is open from May to September 10am till 6pm every day

It’s one of the best things in Skegness to do for free with the kids.

The Fairy Dell is a nice little pool with sprinklers and an ornamental fountain in the center and it’s weaving pools there’s seats for adults and soft flooring underfoot.

The Paddling pool is a great relaxing place to play with the kids. I still take my son at 13 years old, but then he’s in no hurry to grow up and be an adult

The Vine Walk is a tranquil wooded footpath walk.

The Vine is one of the best short walks in Skegness there’s lots of birds and squirrels in the Vine and a playing field where you can play ball games

The Vine Walk starts from Richmond Drive and finishes on Drummond Road just off the beach.

Once your on the Walk you can’t get lost, just stay on the path. The vine is sign posted all the way along, so there’s no fear of not knowing where to go.

The Vine Walk takes 30-45 mins to walk through.

To start the Vine Walk keep going up Richmond Drive passed Tescos and Richmond Primary school until you get to a path that says public footpath and a billboard advertising the Vine Hotel opposite Richmond caravan park, follow the foot paths all the way through to Drummond road, from there you can either cross the road and walk straight up to the Skegness beach or turn left and walk down Drummond Road towards Tower Cinema.

Hi Party People of Skegness

We need a little help reviewing Skegness night life and night clubs.

I haven’t drank alcohol since becoming a Mum 18 years ago, both my hubby and I no longer go to pubs or nightclubs, so I feel it would be wrong for us to give a review about Skegness night clubs and pubs, we’d have nothing to compare them against.

If people could leave a message about their favourite or worst Skegness pub or night club it would help others searching for somewhere good to have a night out in Skegness.

At last new for 2009 Skegness Fantasy Island has introduced a wrist band scheme like Bottons Pleasure Beach has had for years.

Hallelujah, Fantasy Island listened to Skegness holiday makers, there’s been calls from visitors to Fantasy Island for years to have a wrist band, we have lived in Skegness for 3 years and 2009 was the first year we have been to Fantasy Island in Ingoldmells, before the wrist band was introduced Fantasy Island was too expensive for a family to visit. We worked out it would cost more than a day trip to Alton Towers, so never went even though Ingoldmells is next to Skegness, the introduction of the new wrist bands means we can go to Fantasy Island several times a year

The price of the Wrist bands was very reasonable, we paid £12 for an off season adult ticket and £6 for a child off season ticket.

One of Skegness oldest attractions, the Skegness Model Village can be found on South Parade near Skegness Clock Tower.

Skegness Model Village is good for a slow walk around and it’s pretty.

It’s a quaint Model Village with comical shop signs on the tiny buildings and a model train set interwoven through the small houses, although this attraction is called The Skegness Model Village, it’s not actually a model of Skegness as you might assume. It’s a model village of a countryside scene, a small village or town. So don’t be disappointed not to find Skegness buildings in miniature within the Model Village.

OH MY GOD WHAT A LOAD OF S##T SKEGNESS BUTLINS IS!!!

We visited Skegness Butlins in 2007 and it is the filthiest place I’ve ever been, it’s too expensive and poorly organised. My youngest son (11 years of age) actually cried at the end of our terrible first and last day trip to Butlins Skegness, he has never cried before from a day trip (any trip)!

We’ve been to some doosies in our time, but we always managed to have a good time at some point in the day at other disappointing attractions (usually boring museums) we didn’t even get a small amount of fun at Butlins Skegness.

Fortunately we only went on a day trip to Butlins, I feel so sorry for the people who go on a long weekend or week plus holiday and spend hundreds of their hard earned pounds for a family holiday to remember at the Butlins holiday camp, I can only imagine the horrors they experience at this dive of a resort!

Tower Cinema can be found within Tower Arcade 111 Lumley Road just across the road from the Skegness Clock Tower.

The horrible atmosphere of the Tower Arcade amusements brings down the tone of Tower Cinema a lot. I have to confess that I did prejudge Tower Cinema by the look of the amusements arcade and as a result it took two years to decide to take a trip to the cinema in Skegness. I assumed that it would be an uncomfortable disappointing rip off since that is the impression and experience you get at Tower Arcade amusements. If it wasn’t for doing this site I would never have gone.

Skegness Tower Cinema Review

Tower Cinema has two big screens, the cinema seats are modern, comfortable and clean. The screen room was tidy and well kept and you can buy your usual sweet treats like fresh popcorn.

The Embassy Swimming Pool has an indoor heated pool and a traditional seaside outdoor heated swimming pool.

Both of the Embassy Swimming Pools are basic rectangular pools, there are no bells or whistles to this East Lindsey County Council run swimming pool in that it doesn’t have fancy flumes, sprinklers or jacuzzi , but the Embassy Swimming pool in Skeg is a nice pool to have a swim.

The Embassy Swimming Pool can be found on Grand parade next to the Embassy Theatre

PRICES: £3.25 adults, over 60′s free and children under 16 free

Session vary so call ahead on: Tel: 01754 610675 or look online for basic info

Skegness Embassy Outdoor Swimming Pool

The outdoor swimming pool is an OK Skegness attraction for those brave enough to use it on the two days a year when it’s warm enough to swim outside in Skegness

Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve is Skegness’s very own National Nature Reserve, part of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust it’s three and a half miles down Drummond road. The beginning of Drummond Road can be found opposite Tower Cinema.

If you are fit enough you can cycle to Gibraltar Point. The top of Drummond Road is not too busy, the beginning of the road can be a little hectic during holidays with cars trying to park in the car park, if you have children I would suggest cycling on the path at the beginning part of the road.
Don’t cycle on footpaths in Skegness a £30 fine for cycling on footpaths in Skegness was introduced in October 2009!

The rest of the road is a quiet country road, half way up Drummond Road there is a cycle path on the right hand side, but it doesn’t go all the way to Gibraltar point.

Skegness Bottons Pleasure Beach is located on the Skegness Sea Front

Admission Prices:
£12.00 for a full day wrist band.
£8.00 for an evening wrist band.
Or you can buy tokens a pound each.

My kids have dragged me to Bottons Pleasure Beach many times, we go at least 3 times a year, and it’s always a fun filled evening for them and me, which lets face it as parent it’s always a bonus since we usually get left out of the fun drinking tea/coffee as slooowwwly as possible!, while the kids run off and have a blast.

Skegness Bottons Pleasure Beach is a traditional fun fair, it doesn’t have any of the big rides like roller coasters, (it’s not an Alton Towers sized attraction) but it does still have enough for the thrill seekers with the pirate ship and the surf rider in particular and if your up for a good spin every ones all time favorite the waltzer.

Skegness Tower Gardens is the only recreational grounds in Skegness, it has three/four playing fields one main grass area with smaller fields where ball games can be played.

The park is a beautiful scenic place to have a picnic or sit and enjoy some peace and quiet either on the grass areas or under one of the many trees that’s in Tower Gardens.

If you have little ones you can feed the ducks on the pond or let them play in the kiddies play area. Tower Gardens small kiddies play ground is for children aged 0-12, for older children there is a small assault course this could do with being updated and improved, but it’s OK for the older kids to let of a bit of steam for a few minutes. I often race my kids on the assault course

There are several attractions in Skegness for small children, but because my children are all too old for these attractions, (youngest is 13 years old now) I’m afraid I can’t give an in depth review for fun things to keep your toddlers happy during your holiday in Skegness.

I hate to give the usual blurb about an attraction, you know the type of information, seen through rose coloured glasses making out this is the best attraction since sliced bread, which never helps anyone let alone visitors with children to Skegness, you always find they are never true

That’s why my reviews come from a first hand experience of a Skegness Attraction, I like to give a truthful and honest run down of an attractions (the good, the bad and the ugly) and I hope that’s what makes the Skegness Attractions Reviews unique.

The Skegness WebCam picture below is brought to you by Skegness RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and BBC.co.uk.

The camera is set on top of the Skegness Royal National Lifeboat Institution tower looking across the Skegness beach.

The Skegness WebCam updates every 10 minutes.

Skegness WebCam

The Skegness WebCam pans across the beach andsometimes points towards Bottons Pleasure Beach, sometimes you’ll see their big wheel.

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Skegness RNLI

When I was around 12 years old I was on holiday in Skegness, Ingoldmells (caravanning on the Eastgate caravan site) and I went out from Ingoldmells beach in a two man dingy and the current caught me! From the beach I could be seen on the horizon and the Skegness life boat had to be called out to get me, apparently a life boat had broken down so it took some time to pick me up.