Outdoor Activities in Great Yarmouth

By what your family finds difficult. If you want facilities close at hand and do not mind crowds, the stretch nearest the town's attractions is the practical choice. If noise and crowds are the problem, look further along the coast. Whichever you pick, tides, currents and lifeguard arrangements differ from one stretch to the next and are the local authority's business to publish, not ours to guess at.

Only two of the eighteen listings here record indoor space, so this particular list will not rescue you. Time and Tide and Merrivale Model Village are the exceptions, appearing under both. Beyond those, a wet day is better answered from the town's indoor listings than by turning up somewhere open-air in a coat and hoping the sky changes its mind.

Pirates Cove Golf gives an older child something to compete at, and Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens works on a different register entirely — animals rather than activity. Neither makes a nine-year-old feel they are being treated as a toddler, which by that age matters to them more than the content does.

Coastal attractions do tend to run to their own calendar, and we do not hold opening patterns, so ask each place yourself instead of assuming that a summer listing carries over to February. That applies to the smaller attractions more than to the beaches, which are always there — though what is open around them changes considerably through the year.