Skegness Attractions and Skegness Tourist Information

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 Skegness SO Festival 2010 will run July 22nd to 25th. We don’t have any information about this 2010 Skegness event, it will apparently be based on the successes of the Skegness SO Festival 2009 and Skegness SEAS Festival 2009.

More details regarding this Skegness festival to follow as we get it…

What Do You Want at Skegness SO Festival 2010?

If you went to the Skegness SO Festival and/or Skegness SEAS Festival in 2009 and there’s something you’d really like to see again during the 2010 SO Event please post a comment below for discussion.

Update: The Plans for the Skegness SkyPier have been approved pretty much as described below. February 2010.

New plans have been submitted to East Lindsey District Council regarding FAT LOUIS, GRAND PARADE, SKEGNESS, PE25 2UG.

From the Details of Planning Application – S/153/02562/08

Plans can be found online at

http://www.eldc.gov.uk/planning/AcolNetCGI.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=100344

Planning Permission – Erection of a 4 storey building which includes a basement level which provides 2 dance bars, DJ. Podium and toilet facilities, a bar with a dancefloor and a food hall/court to be used within Use Classes A3 and A5 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended) on the upper ground floor, a club and 2 no. bars on the first floor with the provision of a balcony, and leisure facilities consisting of ice skating rink, roller disco area, internet cafe and cafe all on the 2nd floor with balcony on the site of a former hotel which has been burnt down in accordance with amended plans received by the Local Planning Authority from the applicant’s agent on 26th October 2009.

Who doesn’t love a good fireworks display around bonfire night?

The Skegness Royal Hotel, South Parade Skegness, PE25 3EH (Tel: 01754 762301) hosts a free fireworks display on November the 5th 2009. Doors open 6:30PM (bar open) with the fireworks display starting 7:30PM.

It’s free to enter with the option to donate to local Rotarian charities.

Also includes children’s bouncy castle and sumo suits wrestling with hot food available.

Map of Skegness Royal Hotel

Skegness Fireworks Display Review

The Rotary Charity fireworks display at the Royal Hotel Skegness was well worth turning out for, lots of big firework explosions and plenty of them.

Quite a few people turned out on bonfire night despite the rain: started to pour it down 5 minutes after the first firework went up, typical English weather, but it didn’t ruin the night

On Monday 26th October at around 8:15pm in the evening we heard a crash from the kitchen area. I went to investigate and found a brick had been thrown through our kitchen side window!! By the time I got outside whoever threw the brick was long gone unfortunately.

Not sure who did it, but the following morning found an egg splattered on the back of the car as well, which suggests teenagers. To whoever did it, that brick went over 3/4s way through the kitchen we obviously use on a regular basis, (the light was on at the time) had one of us been in the kitchen (youngest son was in the kitchen 10 mins earlier) someone could have been seriously hurt as glass was everywhere!

We’ve reported it to Skegness police and they are investigating.

As regular late evening walkers in Skegness we’ve seen teenagers hanging around the Sunshine Play Area in the late evening. At times there’s over 20 teenagers hanging around and messing around on the play equipment and some are not exactly careful with the play equipment designed for young children!

We understand there’s been a lot of vandalism caused on the Sunshine Play Area and the Skegness Town Council are looking for ways to tackle this problem.

I’m sure it’s been suggested on more than one occasion, but the most obvious solution is to add a gated fence which is locked in the evening. If the sort of fence around the Embassy Swimming Pool were used (apparently painted with a greasy paint that presumably stains clothing) it would deter the majority of teenagers, they’d move on.

Other possible solutions:

A lot of teenagers and that would include me twenty odd years ago complain they have nothing to do, so I’m starting a section drawing attention to Skegness activities and attractions aimed at teenagers.

I’m open to what might be considered a teenage activity, Bottons Pleasure Beach for example is a family attraction, but I think also falls under aimed at teens as well.

So if you organise an event or attraction in Skegness that is teen friendly please post a comment below. If you provide enough information I’ll try to turn it into a stand alone page and link to it from below. More information you supply the better.

David Law

Activities for Teenagers in Skegness

Skegness Army Cadets

Skegness Bottons Pleasure Beach Review

LaserQuest at Skegness Pier Review

Skegness X-Site Skate Park Review

It was a fun and energetic night of musical entertainment at the Embassy Theatre Skegness when the Gotta Sing Gotta Dance group was on stage.

I’m no expert on musical theatre, never even been to London let alone to the West End, so many of the shows songs were new to me. The musical show captured my interest right from the start and I enjoyed every moment of Gotta Sing Gotta Dance. It was informative and funny with a cast of six performing a compilation of songs and acts from West End Musical’s, “50 songs” in total!

The Gotta Sing Gotta Dance cast was showered with whistles and heavy applause after almost every song from the 200 or so people in the Embassy Theatre audience. It’s rare to hear such enthusiasm from a small Skegness crowd at the Embassy.

Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet is to be performed at the Skegness Embassy Theatre tonight (October 14th 2009) by The Perm Ballet Academy which hosts hundreds of Russian ballet dancers, many of whom have won awards in competition.

We are really looking forward to our first ballet and a review of the Nutcracker will follow shortly.

Perm Ballet Academy Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet Review

We were pleasantly surprised to see so many people attended the Embassy Theatre to see Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet, there was at least four hundred people in the audience from old ladies to burly tattooed biker types, (one bloke with tattoos anyway ).

Ballet is far from an out of date form of entertainment as far as we could tell.

There’s an article in the Skegness Standard: Skegness police seek funding to reduce violent assaults http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/Skegness-police-seek-funding-to.5728193.jp Skegness police are trying to obtain £15,000 in funding…

To tackle this type of behaviour he (Inspector Terry Ball) is hoping to get £15,000 to allow the police to set up diversionary activities on 32 nights of the year during the peak season, which might help to stop people from getting into fights.

It’s unfortunate the Skegness police force has to resort to this sort of initiative to reduce violence in our town, but I think it’s a great idea, so well done to whoever thought this up. I look forward to hearing more about the proposal, particularly who will they be targeting the diversionary activities at?

Is it teens and/or young adults or another group who create most trouble in and around Skegness?

We saw the Baghdaddies at St Mathews Church as part of the SEAS Festival that came to Skegness in 2009 (see our SEAS Festival Review). The Baghdaddies are a group of musicians from Newcastle who play mostly Eastern style music with a Western twist in their choice of musical instruments, I don’t think they have Western drum kits and saxophones in traditional Turkish music

After the interval the musicians told us a little about themselves because a lot of the old people in the audience thought since their band name was the Baghdaddies they where from Baghdad The band members are all Caucasian with Geordie accents which was hard to miss, but some of the old folks just concentrated on the bands name. The Baghdaddies have been around for 15 years and the band name I assume has more to do with the style of music they play than their heritage.

The SEAS Festival Finale at the Embassy Theater was a fitting end to another poorly organised Skegness event. I arrived at the Embassy with my young son, we were welcomed into the theater by The Jolly Fisherman to what I was assured was a family night of musical entertainment.

Here’s the information Skegness residents/visitors and the Skegness Tourist Information Center/Embassy Theater staff had available to decide if the Finale was a family friendly event.

From Skegness / Mablethorpe Programme of Events.

6-10.30pm: Grand Finale, Tower Gardens start/Embassy Theatre – musical evening

From SEAS Newsletter 3 – Black/North SEAS
Skegness International, Contemporary Arts Festival
25th September – 3rd October 2009

Everybody loves a good laugh and that’s just what you’ll get if you go to see these guys and gals, the Graffiti Classics show was brilliant, we laughed our socks off all the way through the entertainment

We saw the group Graffiti Classics play in St Mathews Church in Skegness as their contribution to the SEAS Festival (see our SEAS Festival Review).

How has the Skegness Embassy Theater ever missed this great gem of a band!! They are sensational. Although we saw them in a church, Graffiti Classics normally plays in theaters and tours around the world. The best musical show we’ve seen by far, wonderful, if they come back to Skegness we’ll see them again.

Yes you read the title of this post correctly, East Lindsey District Council will STOP the green bin collections completely over the winter period (November to March)!

I’m all for recycling and saving money and have always thought fortnightly collection of green bins throughout the year a waste of resources, even in summer our green bins are rarely full (small garden). I also thought it a bit strange we got a full size green bin and a half size black bin, should have been the other way around IMO: and as a family we have managed to fit black bin waste in the half sized black bin, but struggle with the over flowing full size grey recycling bin (businesses give us too much recyclable material as packaging!) and at times have to put it in the black bin.

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