Indoor Activities in Great Yarmouth

Anyone staying in the area for a week rather than a day. Holiday families get caught by one wet stretch and end up making decisions in a car with everybody shouting, so having read the eight beforehand is worth real money in temper. Day visitors chasing sun and sand rarely need this page until the moment they suddenly do.

Whether it is open, how long it will hold a child, and what a visit involves once you are through the door. A bowling alley and a small museum both sit under the same label and produce wildly different afternoons. The flag is a filter for weather and nothing more, so treat the rest of the planning as still to do.

Two of the eight have open-air space too: Time and Tide and Merrivale Model Village. They suit a changeable day, because a shower need not finish the visit. The other six hold you indoors from start to end, which is precisely what you want when the wind comes in off the sea.

Somewhere like Yarmouth Hippodrome runs to what is on rather than what is there, so look up the current programme rather than assuming. The same goes for anything advertised around a school break. A quick look beforehand saves the conversation where you explain to a child why the thing you described is not happening today.