Top ten Things to do with your kids in Grimsby and Cleethorpes

Below you'll find some of the Top Ten 'things to do' with your kids in Grimsby and Cleethorpes from viewing the famous fishing heritage centre to going to the local ice rink we have plenty of things to do for children and the entire family. Visit Beeches Hotel and restaurant Grimsby for more!

Top Ten things to do with your kids in Grimsby and Cleethorpes

1. Visit the National Fishing Heritage Centre -  The Fishing Heritage is more then just a museum! It's an insight into Grimsby's Maritime history where you can discover what life was like in Grimsby back in the 1950s with the sights, sounds and smells of the times that follow visitors through interactive displays.
2. Children's indoor Time 4 Play - With a main play area and a toddler area Time 4 Play is a three level indoor soft play centre with a variety of obstacles, sports areas, slides and ball pool proving a secure and safe play environment. 
3. Weelsby Park Riding School - Offering a variety of well mannered mounts for lessons available from 5 upwards this school has both indoor and outdoor facilities with fun for all children. 
4. Fuzzy Eds at the Cricketers - Previously known as Wacky Warehouse, now fuzzy eds at the crickeers has an indoor play structure keeping children amused for hours full of many different activities.
5. Grimsby Ice Rink and Leisure Centre - With great music, disco lighting and even a snow machine! The Grimsby ice rink and leisure centre will give you a great and joyful experience. 
6. Grimsby Swimming Pool - The Grimsby Swimming pool offers a main pool which is 25m as well as a separate teaching pool and Diving bay with a 1m springboard, there's also an inflatable slide which is used for fun seasons. 
7. Cleethorpes Leisure Centre - This leisure centre offers many swimming and leisure swim facilities including a 25m fitness pool with flume but also a waves and beach entry. 
8. Labyrinth of Doralia - The Labyrinth of Doralia is an interactive challenging experience featuring a Lazer adventure which will take you to the next level, in fact it's the largest laser adventure in the north.
9. The Jungle Zoo - The Jungle Zoo centres around a tropical house in a spectacular jungle-alike setting which includes a large water feature containing goldfish, red eared and other terrapins from north America. 
10. Cleethorpes Ten Pin Bowling - Of course kids love bowling especially seeing as you can use ramps and guards for the smaller bowler - STRIKE! A perfect day out for the family.

So there you have it! the Top ten things you can do with your kids and family in Grimsby and Cleethorpes, these are definitely worth the check out! Visit Beeches Hotel and restaurant Grimsby for more!

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Four fun things to do in Grimsby!

The Beeches Hotel is based in Grimsby, and although it has received some poor press over the years (probably due to its name coming from the Danish word for Grim), we wanted to show everybody just how wonderful Grimsby could be!

In this blog, you’ll find our 4 favourite places to visit throughout the whole of Grimsby. On top of these, our hotel in Grimsby and the restaurant Grimsby.

The People’s Park

Tucked away behind a number of houses in Bargate, you’ll find a large, scenic park that hosts a lake, playing fields and even greenhouses. Of course, we’re talking about People’s Park. You can take a ball with your kids to run around with, feed the beautiful families and ducks and swans and you can even view a host of natures favourite animals and woodland creatures living in their habitats. There’s a Gardening Centre, which is ideal for your little ones as they can visit the various animal enclosures that holds birds, chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs! Brilliantly, a number of the things to do inside the park is free, so you can have hours of fun with the family enjoying nature and appreciating the animals.

The People's Park is Grimsby

The Fishing Heritage Centre

Although you may already know it, Grimsby is an incredibly important port for Britain, with a Museum in the town dedicated to the fishing heritage. A number of exhibits sit inside the museum, offering video look backs at the history of the town and its role in Britain’s history. A host of smells, sights and sounds are to be had, bringing history to life in a fantastic manner. The museum is located just outside of the town, with a small admission fee for visitors.

Fuzzy Ed

Be situated just a 10 minute walk from the centre of the town, the Fuzzy Ed Indoor Soft Play Area offers a wonderful hour of fun for your children. Entrance is a minimal £2.50 per child, a small price to pay for what’s on offer! The massive two storey playground has ball pit, tunnels, slides, climbing equipment and even zip wires! Luckily, Fuzzy Ed run a ‘toddler time’, which allows your little ones to go in and have massive amounts of fun without the fear of being knocked over! There’s a sizeable amount of desks and chairs where the adults can sit and chat, read a magazine or two and have a cup of tea.

Fuzzy Ed's has fun for all of the family

Elsham Hall

A few miles out of Grimsby, you’ll find the beautiful Elsham Hall which is full of wonderful country gardens. Planted with some of nature’s most beautiful plants, Elsham Hall has a wide range of wonderful flowers for everybody to see. Children can come too, as a playground sits in the gardens, next to a butterfly garden, historic cottages and even a mini farm that has goats and chickens! Just remember to bring a picnic!

Have any you'd like to add to this list? Be our guest!

When you'll come here please visit our Hotel in Grimsby!

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3 Attractions in and around Grimsby

Main attractions in and around Grimsby

Grimsby in the UK was once one of the largest fishing port in the world with over 500 trawlers sailing in and out of the docks during the thriving fishing industry. Today Grimsby still operates as a fishing port but just not as busy as it was in the 1970s. With the grimsby town centre now completely redeveloped with a modern looking shopping centre (Freshney place), this small town is still a uk historical location to visit for the quiet stays, friendly locals, amazing hotels such as Beeches Hotel Grimsby & the famous fishing docks. Below we have just a small selection of the local 'places to visit' within Grimsby.  

National Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby

The National Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby has been one of the most important centres of fishing in this region and across the entire region for many centuries now. This museum which is dedicated to the study of the town as well as the long association with the fishing industry shows a wide variety of fine artefacts on show that bring this illustrious history to life.

Withernsea Lighthouse Museum in Grimsby

The Withernsea Lighthouse Museum in Grimsby features RNLI and HM Coastguard exhibits with displays of old historical photographs, models and documents from Withernsea's past including the Queens Hotel and train station. This historical lighthouse is no longer active meaning any visitor are allowed to climb the 144 steps to the top of the lighthouse giving you a truly breathtaking view over withernsea and east yorkshire.  

Fort Paull in Grimsby

Fort Paull Grimsby

Fort Paull is one of Yorkshires only remaining Napoleonic Fortress, with over 500 years of history within the walls of this superb fortress set in 10 acres with magnificent sight seeing views over the Humber estuary this is a perfect day out for the family!

With its own shop full of artifacts, pictures, postcards and many other little gifts Fort Paull also holds event days and much more.

 

8 things about Grimsby you might not know.

1. Elton John's song 'Grimsby' was written by Bernie Taupin about his youth spent in the town as a young lad.  One line of the 1974 reads: "Oh England you’re fair, but there's none to compare with my Grimsby. Through nights of mad youth, I have loved every sluice in your harbour."

2. The Port of Grimsby is the UK’s largest port by tonnage. During World War II, had the German invasion been successful, Grimsby would have been one of the first landing points in the north of England.

3. Grimsby has featured in films - used for filming scenes for 1986 film 'Clockwise', starring John Cleese and Penelope Wilton, while Grimsby's famous docks were used in 'This Is England'.

4. Grimsby has homed celebrities! T-Rex bass player Steve Currie, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy actor John Hurt, This Is England star Thomas Turgoose and recent X-Factor contestant Ella Henderson, now signed with Simon Cowell.

5. Grimsby Town Football club, known as the Mariners, is not based in Grimsby! Blundell Park ground is based in Cleethorpes - so the club never really play at home.

6. When the Olympic Torch passed through Grimsby, it was abseiled down Grimsby Dock Tower on Day 40 of the relay.

7. The first North Sea natural gas find was made only 40 miles from Grimsby in 1965.

8. In 1086, Grimsby was mentioned in the Domesday Book, and was listed as having a population of 200. The town now has a population of almost 90,000.

If you've been looking for a weekend away, Grimsby has some of the finest seafood in the country and Beeches Hotel and Restaurant would be more than happy to accommodate you.  We are proud of our Brasserie restaurant and cosy hotel rooms.  For more information, please contact Beeches Hotel in Grimsby on 01472 278830 or email us.
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