Free Days Out in Skegness

Central Beach Skegness is the one with the town behind it, meaning toilets, food and something to do when the sand stops being enough. That convenience is worth more than it sounds with children under about six. Anderby Beach and Moggs Eye Beach are the opposite proposition, quieter and emptier, which is lovely with older children and a long walk from help with younger ones.

Two of the seven record indoor space, so the options narrow fast. The Village Church Farm is a museum site with buildings on it, which gives you somewhere to be that is not the car. Skegness Pier also logs indoor space and a pier is by nature a partly sheltered structure. Beyond those two, a wet day on this coast means finding something that is not on this particular list.

Far enough that they are separate outings rather than a single afternoon's wandering. The coastal strip runs for miles and the named beaches sit at different access points along it, each with its own parking and its own walk down. Choose one and stay there. Trying to sample several in a day means most of the day is spent in the car, which is not what anybody came to the seaside for.