Boats, cable cars and goats
Cruise the coast on the Yorkshire Belle, ride Victorian cable cars, brave the inversions at Flamingo Land, or ride the tractors and zip wires at Park Rose Village. Then discover award-winning beaches; the Whitby Vampire Curse Treasure Trail; alpacas, sheep and goats at Playdale, and Vikings and ghosts in York.
Kids Ahoy!
You’ve two award-winning beaches in Bridlington to pick from and plenty more locally, including the grassy cliffs and beach huts of Whitby Sands and fossil-rich Sandsend. Drive to Saltburn and ride the ancient cable cars down to the beach. And brave the Whitby Vampire Curse Treasure Trail or Dracula Experience.
Take a whale-watching trip and keep your eyes peeled for minke, sperm, humpback and northern whales as well as dolphins, porpoise, jellyfish and sharks. Or head to the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, where a young James Cook, the Pacific explorer, had his lodgings back in 1746.
Go Ape in Dalby Forest. Enjoy the interactive exhibition, sculptures and labyrinth among the woodland and moorland of The Moors National Park Centre. Paint your own pots at Pot 2 Doodle Do. Or get down to Playdale Farm Park to meet and feed alpacas, sheep, goats, ponies, donkeys, pigs and other cuties.
Experience ten inversions on ‘Sik’ or ride the £4m Mumbo Jumbo coaster at Flamingo Land Resort. Or just take a Muddy Duck Tractor Ride or potter around the zoo to meet cheetahs, chickens, land snails and more. Or head inland to York for the Jorvik Centre, York Dungeon and a ghost-bus tour.
For the grown ups
Golfers will love the verdant fairways of Bridlington Golf Club. Perhaps you’ll follow up with a distillery tour and a quick dram of malt whisky at Spirit of Yorkshire. Or maybe you’d prefer some cask ale at Birdbrewer and Taproom. Or chill on a spa day at The Parsonage or The Yorkshire Spa Retreat in York.
Catch your fish supper aboard the Heidi J or from the pier at Bridlington. Ride the waves with Whitby Surf School. Discover the cafes, pubs and cobbled streets of Scarborough, Whitby and Filey. Ride out to Heartbeat country, the North York Moors, for a trek along the Cleveland Way or up to Mallyan Spout.
Cruise the coast on the Yorkshire Belle, wander around the museum, see the priory and shop for souvenirs in Bridlington’s pretty streets. Watch hundreds of thousands of seabirds on the cliffs at RSPB Bempton, including gannets, puffins, guillemots, and razorbills. Or head down to stunning Staithes.
Discover Dracula country at Whitby Abbey. Buy gemstones at Whitby Heritage Jet Centre. Forage among Robin Hood’s Bay’s cobbles, fossils and rock pools. Up for a laugh? Herd pigs and wang wellies at Farm Adventure. Slow the pace in The Georgian Tea Rooms. End the day with cocktails at The Garden.
Happy hens (and stags)
On a hen or stag weekend, sometimes you want to mix and mingle and other times you want your own company. With two lounges (and two TVs) warmed by the same logburner, you have that choice at North Beach House. You also have a games room complete with BOSE sounds, darts and pool.
There’s plenty of room for coming together at mealtimes around the 16-seater table and the garden’s good for impromptu games of football plus long, lazy lounging in the hot tub. Head out to paint pots over hot chocolate at Pot-a Doodle-Do. Or come for the birdies and play the lush fairways of Bridlington Golf Club.
Looking for an adrenaline hit? Consider balloon flights, supercar driving, aircraft tours, 4×4 off-roading, bungee jumping or wing-walking. Book a spa package at The Parsonage or The Yorkshire Spa Retreat in York. Or enjoy coffee, cake and dainty sandwiches with an afternoon tea at The Georgian Tea Rooms.
Get seriously staggy with some pig-herding and welly wanging at Farm Adventure. Then get cleaned up for a night out at The Marine Bar or cocktails at The Garden, The Bar With No Name and The Dog House. For shape-throwing deep into the night, get over to York’s Popworld, Flares and Kuda.
