Skegness is a seaside town on the East Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, it is 43 miles (69 km) from Lincoln, has a population of around 19,000 and as a holiday town Skegness is best known as the location of the first Butlins holiday resort.
We** moved here in November 2006 after buying an ex guest house (4 floors, 10+ bedrooms) within Skegness to renovate/live in.
** We being a family of five, Mum, Dad and three sons (16, 14 and 11 years old).
The ex guest house renovation continues around us (was a lot more needing doing than we first thought) while we try to live and have some fun in sunny Skegness 
Although there’s a Skegness tourist information center whenever we’ve tried to find an activity for us to do, we’ve pretty much been on our own research wise (total lack of details). Though that’s not surprising, every where we have lived has had the same lack of detailed information about what fun activities are going on in that area.
We plan to use this site to document fun activities in Skegness we think others will find useful and with a little luck start a small business the kids can run from this site(no idea what yet).
Skegness Attractions website is new (went live April 15th 2008) and lacks information at this time. Give us a few months and we’ll try to fill these pages with interesting things for both Skegness holiday visitors and Skegness residents to do.
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Play area
Is there still an outside play area near to the model village? We are coming on holiday soon and looking for places to go with 2 7 year olds when the older children go off on there own.
Skegness play area
If you mean the play area that had a rocket as a slide just down from the model village, I think it was called kiddies corner.
Unfortunately it’s been closed down, all the equipment was riped out during winter and it’s just an empty space now.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad new for you Janet
On a side note Lucky Strike the new arcade opposite the Embassy Theatre has an entire floor for young kids at the top, it has a soft play area and arcade games that are designed for little ones.
Hope this helps
Marie
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play area
this play area closed in 2010 because the council want to build industrial units on the site and as a yearly visitor i will be looking for another holiday spot
stop knocking SKEGNESS.
Ok so nothing is perfect, and Skeggy isnt the costa del sol, and I AM SO GLAD IT ISNT!
There is a lot of flat spaces for wheelchair users to go to, pleasant parks and ponds, good bird watching, nice restaurants,(pity not many do gluten free meals though)and a good theatre, friendly taxi drivers who will chat and let you know their local knowledge. (IF u ask).
When they find out that you used to live there, even if it was 30+ years ago, they still treat u like a local. Tell you the best places to eat, and whats a good bargain, whats not.
Without thinking I asked one driver to take us to a certain place, and said BY THE LOCALS ROUTE!!
He looked at me, and said “which is that then”
I told him and he said ‘so u live here then?
No,-not now I dont, but memories live on, (not all good ones though) for personal reasons.
Ive visited Skeggy since age 4, lived there for a couple of years, and then visited since. (almost yearly). This year we are meeting up with family for my husbands 75th birthday. Skeggys great.
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