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 Bottons Pleasure Beach Value for Money
Bottons is excellent value for money with its wrist band scheme. You do have to pay extra for certain rides, but all in all it’s great value for money particularly if you go in the evening (£8 for a wristband), you get enough rides on the wrist band to make yourself happy.
Or you can buy tokens so your not locked in, nice and flexible that’s what we like to see in a Skegness attraction. This means it’s ideal for people staying just for the weekend, after spending your day on the Skegness beach trying to get a tan give yourself and the kids a little fun at Bottons. Or folks who just want a quick go on one of the rides while their passing through Bottons to Skegness beach.
The Bottons wrist bands entitles you to go on all the rides for both big and small kids.
Small Children’s Fun Fare Rides
Safari Train
Gallopers
Yo-Yo
Cup & Saucer Ride
Family Fun Fare Rides
Dodgems : brilliant fun
Rockin Tug
Ghost Train
Big Apple Mini Rollercoaster
Giant Wheel
Runaway Train
Queen Bee Rollercoaster
Thrill Rides
Rockin’ Roller : personal favorite
Waltzer
Pirate Ship
Surf Rider
Paratrooper
The worst ride at Bottons Pleasure Beach by far has to be the Ghost Train, it’s total rubbish!
There’s nothing in it, The Ghost Train is just a track that goes around a bunch of badly drawn scary pictures and a few dummies which are sparsely laid out.
I’ve seen Halloween masks my kids wear scarier than the contents of the Bottons Ghost Train.
In this day and age the Bottons Ghost Train is just embarrassing especially since other ghost trains like the one at Blackpool and Brighton are at such a high standard :-)
Bottons would be better if they pulled down the Ghost Train and used the space for something else or replaced it with a modern Ghost Train.
Bottons Pleasure Beach Rides NOT Included in the Price
The extra attractions that are NOT included in the cost of a wrist band and you pay extra for at Bottons, are the traditional fun fair stalls like hook a duck, the motorized bikes that you put a pound in for little kids, and the log flume that is on the outside of Bottons.
The log flume is better than the one they have at Fantasy Island, it’s got two falls, one of the drops is bigger than the log flume at Fantasy Island and the other is wavy so has more thrill value.
There’s also a very small crazy golf course next to the log flume that you can pay extra for, but it’s the worst crazy golf course in Skegness, definitely not worth the money at £2.00 per person, might be worth it if they dropped their prices to £1.00 per person (it’s so small).
For a more detailed review of Crazy Golf in Skegness click on the link (soon)
Traditional Fun Fair Stalls cost around £1 – £3ish depending on the game
Motorized Kiddie Bikes £1 per child
Log Flume £2 per person
Crazy Golf £2 per person
Bottons Arcades
Bottons also has 3 arcades, two are accessed from inside Bottons and the third arcade can also be accessed from the road outside, this is one of the best arcades in Skegness. We enjoy the ten pin bowling machine, air hockey and a flip football machine. The other two arcades are your run of the mill sea side arcade. For a detailed review of Skegness arcades click on link (soon).
Food at Bottons
There’s plenty of kiosk at and around Bottons selling food and sweets so when you need refueling there’s easy access to food, with plenty of choice from hot dogs to doughnuts as well as your traditional sea side treat: fish and chips.
If you prefer a commercial burger, there’s a large McDonalds on site at the front of Grand Parade. (McDonalds is situated on land owned by Bottons Pleasure Beach)
Bottons Pleasure Beach owns the land on Skegness Grand Parade from the Log Flume at the front all the way around the back of the Embassy Theater to the Skegness Water Way.
There are gift shops and cafe/pub along this stretch of land and at the back of Bottons they own other attractions including a Crazy Golf course, the River Ride and Little Rascals Kiddies play area.
All in all Skegness Bottons Pleasure Beach is a good Skegness Attraction
Skegness Attractions Star Rating for Bottons Pleasure Beach 8/10
Marie
although it mostly sounds good the prices seem too high. We are a family of 5 with limited funds is there anywhere i could get money off coupons. We go 11th-15th july. thankyou
Unfortunately as far as I’m aware there is no money off offers at Bottons.
Just put a post on a different title but equally applies here, couldn’t agree more with Kelly, as the Log Flume ride is continuously going round all the time with at least 95% of the carriages empty, why the heck do they charge so much for people to go on it, if they charged less, they’d get more wet bums on the seats and earn much more in the way of finances and publicity, that way people may also spend more time and money in the amusement park and I ain’t no Einstein??
Couldn’t agree more, but you try and tell greedy attraction owners if they charge less they will earn more.
The concept goes right over there heads, they don’t want to take the risk of earning less full stop, even though you and I know that if you give people a bargain they will come back for more and as a bonus will inadvertently spend money using other facilities for food etc..
We’ve lived in Skeg 5 years and have only used the Log Flume twice due to cost.
An interesting observation, that the owners must never noticed is that even though there is no one on the log flume there is always a crowd watching the empty carriages go around.
It’s so packed with people watching that you can’t get passed.
Makes me laugh every year, is Skegness that boring :)
I guess the owner aren’t that business savvy, just think of the money if all the people watching was actual riders
Personally I think the best things to do in Skegness are the things that are free, a walk across the beach first thing in the morning is something no money can buy and no attraction can top.
Marie
if you get a full day rist band, does it include the evening, or is it just all day. also, what time does the ‘evening’ rist bands start and finish?
I’m not sure about the all day ticket, we’ve never used it, but the evening ticket prices start at 5pm till 10pm.
Best bet is to give them a call.
Marie
are you open between oct28 and nov 4 as thats when me and my family are visting,are the rides shut or open
Unfortunately Bottons closes down in September and reopens in march, about the only attractions open at that time are the arcades :(
This is one area Skegness and other seaside towns fail for a plausible all year round holiday experience.
Skegness needs many more events, festivals and indoor attraction so it can happily accommodate holiday makers in the colder months to survive in the modern world of all year round holidays.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news :(
Marie
is that the peir arcades with the bowling underneath
It was open today 1st nov 2014 and is open tomorrow I’m lead to believe 12-5pm
it is sad to hear tha’t they removed the surf rider from skegness i hope they return it back they can try to fix it. skegness is such a nice place to stay i hope they fix it
ON HOLIDAY WITH MY HUSBAND AND SON IN JULY 2019. WENT TO BUY SWEETS FROM “NEMOS” A CABIN ON THE PROMENADE ON BOTTONS PLEASURE BEACH. AS I WAS CHOOSING SWEETS I WAS HORRIFIED TO SEE RIGHT NEXT TO ME CANDY DUMMIES ON RIBBONS THAT WERE PENIS SHAPED! THEY WERE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE CABIN AT CHEST HEIGHT DANGLING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! A CHILD COULD EASILY SEE THEM AND ALSO REACH THEM. I TOLD THE OWNER THEY SHOULD REALLY BE OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN. HE MADE ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE BY SAYING WITH A SMIRK ON HIS FACE “WHY SHOULD THEY BE OUT OF REACH” AS IF HE DIDNT KNOW THEY WERE PINK COLOURED PENISES! I THEN HAD TO SAY THEY WERE PENIS DUMMIES IN FRONT OF MY FAMILY. HE WAS VERY RUDE AND OFFENSIVE SAYING I DIDNT HAVE TO BUY THEM AND IT WAS A SEASIDE TOWN AND EVERYONE SELLS THEM. I SAID I HAD SEEN THEM IN OTHER SHOPS BUT THEY WERE BEHIND THE TILL OR HIGH UP OUT OF REACH. WHAT IF A CHILD WAS WITH THEIR FRIENDS AND DIDNT REALISE AT FIRST WHAT IT WAS THEY COULD EASILY REACH UP AND BUY ONE WITH THEIR POCKET MONEY AND WALK AROUND SUCKING ON THE THING! I AM NO PRUDE BUT SHOPS DO NOT EVEN HAVE ADULT MAGAZINES IN REACH OF CHILDREN SO WHY SHOULD THIS OWNER BE ALLOWED TO? HE WAS VULGAR AND OBNOXIOUS AND DIDNT SEEM CONCERNED SO I DOUBT HE WOULD NOT HAVE ANY QUALMS IN SELLING TO A CHILD AS LONG AS HE MADE A SALE. HE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED UNDER SAFEGUARDING LAWS. SKEGNESS IS A SEASIDE TOWN BUT IT IS A FAMILY ORIENTATED SEASIDE TOWN. STAY WELL CLEAR!!!