The best mini golf in the UK? (Skegness in General)

Member Name: stuff10

Product:	Skegness in General
Date:	28/09/09 (90 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good mini golf, some fun amusements

Disadvantages: In England, some scrubby people there, poor road network

As a youngster I was always taken to Scarborough for days out at the beach, but the wife is a bit of a fan of Skeggy and so in the last 5 years we've made the trek over from Sheffield on quite a few occasions.

Skegness (or Skeggy or Skeg Vegas as it's affectionately known) is a seaside resort on the east coast of England. Whilst it's not as picturesque as Scarborough, there is plenty to see and do there.

The wife and I will normally go to Skeggy for one day each year, always doing pretty much the same thing too. We park near the pier which is priced at £6 for all-day, which seems to be a bit of a rip-off to me but we pay it nonetheless. We'll then have a walk up into town and look around a few of the (poor) shops before heading back to the coast to play some mini golf.

The mini golf is one of Skegness' top attractions for us - there's at least 4 different courses, all of which are very well-priced (£2-£3.50 per adult) and also well-maintained. Most of them are 9-hole courses, bit some do have more than one course for you to try. Club and ball hire is free as always, but you might be charged if you lose your ball - so watch out for the water hazards! The courses aren't as good as the Pirate's Cove chain of mini golf in America, but for England they're not bad at all.

If you're into amusement arcades, Skeggy has all the usual games including our favourite the Arabian Derby camel racing. The camel racing costs £1 for 3 games and is played against other players. You have 2 balls each which you roll into holes in front of you - these holes are numbered 1, 2 and 3 with your camel moving forward the number of spaces that your ball goes in - quite a simple game, but a very fun one to play! There's also basketball games that we enjoyed and an interesting putting one too.

If you're at the seaside, you have to have fish and chips for dinner (it's the law), and Skeggy is blessed with plenty of nice chippies all along the sea front. There's also an array of shops selling rock, candy floss and the like.

If you brave the beach, you'll see donkey rides available for the kids and you can also enjoy a game of spot the sewage or count the condoms in the North Sea. Further back from the beach is a nice little park area that can be a nice place to relax away from the crowds on busy summer days.

So why have I only given it 3 stars? Well, for a start it's a pain in the neck to get to, without a motorway in sight leaving only clogged-up A-roads. From Sheffield it can take us over 2 hours on busy days which is a bit much for an 80-mile drive. And no matter how good an English seaside resort is, it still suffers from one major problem... it's in England. It's never gonna be anywhere near as nice as Mallorca or Tenerife, so it can't really be rated as anything more than okay.

Summary: Not bad for a couple of hours, but I couldn't spend any longer there