Indoor
Indoor Activities in Hastings
Showing 1–10 of 10 indoor attractions in Hastings
AquariumsHastings Aquarium
AdventureSmugglers Adventure
SightseeingEast Hill Cliff Railway
SightseeingCliff Railways
MuseumsThe True CRIME Museum
MuseumsFishermans Museum
MuseumsShipwreck Museum
CinemasODEON Hastings
MuseumsHastings Museum and Art Gallery
Indoor PlayClambers Play Centre & Battle Zone
Rainy Day Activities in Hastings
Ten indoor listings in Hastings, and the number flatters the choice a little. Two of them are cliff railways — Cliff Railways and East Hill Cliff Railway cover closely related ground — and four are museums, three of those about the sea. So the real spread is narrower than ten, and the town's subject is unmistakable: water, wrecks and whatever washed up. Hastings Aquarium and Smugglers Adventure carry the same theme on by other means.
Two of the ten record outdoor space. The rest are inside, and several are small enough that doing two in an afternoon is a sensible plan rather than a greedy one.
Indoor activities in Hastings: FAQs
Does the theme get repetitive with children?
It can if you do them back to back, and it does not if you space them out. Shipwreck Museum and Fishermans Museum sit close enough in subject that one is usually plenty for a child in a single day, whereas following either with Hastings Aquarium gives the same interest a completely different shape. Spread the sea across a weekend rather than a morning and nobody complains.
Which entries hold an older child?
The True CRIME Museum and Smugglers Adventure are the two aimed at children who want a bit of dark and a bit of a story. Both call for a parent's judgement rather than a printed age band, since what one eleven-year-old finds thrilling another finds genuinely unpleasant. Look at what each one covers before committing, and have the alternative ready in case you decide against it.
Is a page of ten too short for a week here?
On its own, yes, but nobody spends a week in Hastings entirely under a roof. Read this as one part of the plan, enough to cover two or three difficult afternoons, rather than the whole holiday. Several of these are short visits rather than full days as well, which stretches ten entries considerably further than the bare number suggests.
The two railways look identical on the page. Are they?
They are listed separately, and separate listings usually mean separate operations even where the description sounds the same. Rather than guess, look at what each entry actually covers before setting out, and count them as one item on your shortlist instead of two. It matters when you are working out how many genuinely different things there are to do here.