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11 Best Adventure Days Out In East Sussex
Eleven entries, and they fall into three piles. Underground or indoors: Brighton Sewer Tours, Smugglers Adventure, High Sports Brighton. Outdoors and on your feet: Puzzle Parade, Curious About Hastings, The Brighton Treasure Trail and Battle Through Time Spy Mission Treasure Trail, all of which are routes rather than venues. And parks such as Egerton Park, filed here because there is something to climb on. Nothing on the list is a large outdoor adventure centre of the kind other counties along this coast can offer.
Top adventure days out in East Sussex
Showing 1–11 of 11
SightseeingBrighton Sewer Tours
AdventurePuzzle Parade
Sports & ActivitiesHigh Sports Brighton
Parks and PlaygroundsEgerton Park
SightseeingCurious About Hastings
AdventureSmugglers Adventure
AdventureThe Brighton Treasure Trail
AdventureBattle Through Time Spy Mission Treasure Trail
AdventureThe Lewes Treasure Hunt Treasure Trail
AdventureThe Rye Mystery Treasure Trail
AdventureEastbourne Mystery Treasure Trail
The strength here is the odd and the small rather than the big. A sewer tour, a smugglers' cave and a set of clue-following walks are not what most families picture when they hear the word, and they make a better afternoon than the label suggests, particularly with a child who has grown out of theme parks but not out of being told a story. High Sports Brighton is where the energy goes, and it is indoors, which on this coast is worth having.
Adventure Days Out in East Sussex: FAQs
Are the walking routes worth paying attention to?
Four of the eleven are, and they suit this county unusually well because the towns they run through are compact and full of things to look at. A clue trail makes an older child look up at buildings they would otherwise march straight past, and it converts an ordinary town visit into something with a beginning and an end. Check the start point and the recommended age on each one's own page, since the difficulty of the puzzles varies more than the format suggests.
What age is Brighton Sewer Tours for?
Older than you might hope. Tours of that sort normally carry a minimum age and a set of conditions about what you can and cannot bring, and none of that appears in our records, so the operator's own page is the only reliable source. It is flagged indoor and rated top of the eleven, which suggests the people who go are glad they went. Confirm the rules first, because turning up with a five-year-old in tow would be a wasted journey.
Where does a family go for high ropes?
Not here, on this evidence. There is no outdoor high-ropes entry among the eleven, and that is the clearest gap on the page. High Sports Brighton covers climbing under a roof, which is the nearest equivalent and better than nothing on a wet day, but a child expecting trees and a zip wire will not be satisfied by a wall. If that is the promise, look at neighbouring counties before you settle on a plan.
Is a park a fair entry in an adventure list?
It stretches the word, but it is not useless information. Egerton Park is filed here because it holds equipment worth travelling a little way for, and for a family with a five-year-old that is genuinely the right level of adventure. The trouble is that it sits on the same page as a climbing centre and a cave, so the heading sets a level none of the parks reach. Read the individual entries and the mismatch stops mattering.