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44 Best Sightseeing Attractions In East Sussex
Parents searching this tag in East Sussex are usually picturing the pier, the Downs and the sea. The county's forty-four entries deliver something quite different. High in the list sit Pier Pressure, GOVR Brighton - VR Cafe, Escape The Vault - Escape Room Brighton and ImmotionVR Brighton — screens, headsets and locked rooms, every one of them recorded indoors, none offering a view of anything. Brighton Sewer Tours takes the idea to its conclusion and puts you underground. Of the county's best-rated handful, only Ditchling Beacon-National Trust does what the word promises, which is stand somewhere high and look out.
Top sightseeing attractions in East Sussex
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SightseeingPier Pressure
SightseeingBrighton Sewer Tours
SightseeingEscape The Vault - Escape Room Brighton
SightseeingGOVR Brighton - VR Cafe
SightseeingDarkMaster Escape Rooms
MuseumsParadox Place
SightseeingImmotionVR Brighton
SightseeingObservatory Science Centre
SightseeingDitchling Beacon-National Trust
Sports & ActivitiesMy Skateworld
SightseeingPreston Manor
SightseeingPhileas Foggs World of Adventure
This is not a complaint about East Sussex, which has no shortage of open ground. The complaint is with the heading. If you came for the coast and the Downs, search the parks and countryside listings and keep this page for the wet half of the weekend. Paradox Place and DarkMaster Escape Rooms belong to that half as well, and both make better company on a grey afternoon than a headland does.
Sightseeing Attractions in East Sussex: FAQs
So is any of this actually sightseeing?
Yes, once you look past the first screenful. Ditchling Beacon-National Trust is the clearest example near the top of the county list: high ground, open air, nothing between you and the view. The forty-four entries do take in coast and countryside further down. It is simply that the best-rated ones bunch around indoor experiences, so sorting by rating buries the views.
What age do the escape rooms and VR venues suit?
Older children, on the whole. Escape The Vault - Escape Room Brighton and DarkMaster Escape Rooms want a child who can read a clue, take a turn and stay calm in a small dark room. GOVR Brighton - VR Cafe and ImmotionVR Brighton bring headset fit and motion sickness into it. Every venue sets its own minimum age, so ask before you book for anyone younger than about eight.
Is the sewer tour a serious family option?
Brighton Sewer Tours rates as highly as anything on this page, but it is a guided walk through a working sewer and that sets its own limits. It is confined, it is dark in places, and it is not somewhere a toddler is carried round happily. A curious nine-year-old will talk about it for weeks afterwards. For a nervous one it is a bad idea and no amount of persuasion changes that.