Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach Norfolk
The Pleasure Beach Great Yarmouth is now open for 2020. (See calendar for dates) Due to social distancing guidelines, we will be limiting our visitors on the park at any one time. Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach will be operating pre-paid time slots. Each session will be 4 hours duration and everyone entering the Pleasure Beach will need a valid entrance ticket.
To ensure the safety of our staff and visitors, the Pleasure Beach strictly follows the rules that are set by the Government. Therefore, you will need to pre-pay your visit.How does it workOn entrance to the park, you will have unlimited access to the rides during the 4-hour time slot you have chosen. Normal ride safety rules apply. A list of rides and restrictions can be found in the rides section.
Entrance tickets can be purchased on-line for selected date and time sessions. Availability will be subject to capacity restrictions.(Under 3yrs are free to enter but MUST be included on the booking)Due to the latest government rules, please ensure any bookings with more than six people are restricted to one household group only.In the interest of safety, guests are asked to ensure that all children under 12 years of age are accompanied by a responsible adult during their visit. Read more…
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Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach Prices
Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach always strives to provide value for money. Due to social distancing guidelines, we will be limiting our visitors on the park at any one time. We are introducing a pre-bookable experience to assist in capacity management.We will be offering pre-paid time slots. Each session will be 4 hours duration for unlimited use of rides, subject to restrictions. Please see our rides page for more information.
A valid ticket will be required for entrance*. At the end of your session, you will be required to leave the park. To ensure we operate a fair and safe system with limited customers and timed sessions, we have introduced a very competitive one-price entrance ticket to ensure value for all classes* (Under 3yrs free). Unfortunately, we cannot offer any discounts, concessions or accept vouchers at this time. Due to the latest government rules, please ensure any bookings with more than six people are restricted to one household group only.Riders and non-riders entering the park must pay the £12 entry feeENTRY PRICEStandard Ticket* – £12.00 all Classes per sessionUnder 3’s Ticket – (Free) – MUST be included on booking*Riders and non-riders entering the park must pay the £12 entry fee.  FAIRGROUND FRIGHT NIGHT EVENT ENTRY PRICEStandard Ticket: £17.00 all classes per session. Please note: Due to the nature of the event, it is not suitable for anybody aged under five. Anybody under the age of 12 will need to be accompanied by a more mature paying person. For more information about Fright Night events please follow this link
SEASON PASSES – Unfortunately, we will not be providing an option to purchase season tickets throughout the 2020 season. RIDE TOKEN PRICES – Ride tokens are not valid and cannot be used toward payment method.
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Rides At Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach
Under 8 years must be accompanied by a responsible person. No babies in arms. New for 2020- The Son Of Bigfoot 4D. Other rides include: 4-D CINEMA – The Big Apple Coaster – The Bonanza ride – CUPS AND SAUCERS – Disko DISK – Dodgems – Pleasure Beach Family Star – The Flying Dumbo – The Formula One ride – Pleasure Beach Freefall – The Fun Factory – Pleasure Beach Gallopers – The Haunted House – JET FIRE EXTREME – Pleasure Beach Log Flume .- Beach Monorail – This huge swinging gondola – Pirate Raft – Reverse Time – Roller Coaster – ky DropSKY – Snails and Fairy – The Twister – The Whirlwind – The Yo-Yo ride – Leo the Lion.
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The Edge Great Yarmouth Norfolk
The Edge Great Yarmouth – A major new leisure complex for Great Yarmouth – The Edge complex in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk will be an extension to the existing Pleasure Beach offering an 8/10 screen multiplex cinema, 81 bed Premier Inn with a 6,000 sq ft Beefeater restaurant and 5 other branded restaurants in addition to an all year round indoor play area with ample parking for the scheme.  A resolution to grant planning permission was consented in July 2017 to Pleasure & Leisure Corporation, who own Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach. The Premier Inn and Beefeater restaurant was opened in June 2019.
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History of Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach.
Great Yarmouth was established as a seaside holiday resort between 1800 and 1860 but it was not until 1909 that a young C.B. Cochran, later to become a world-famous impresario, was finally able to persuade the local council to grant a lease for a proposed seafront amusement centre. The original Pleasure Beach consisted of a scenic railway and little else. In 1911 another popular attraction arrived, The Joywheel, and the park attracted large crowds until 1914 when it closed for the war years. read more…
After the war, in April 1919, a fire devastated the Scenic Railway but this was repaired and re-opened by August 1919. In 1923 the council relaxed its restrictions on seafront development and the Pleasure Beach was restored and extended. The Scenic Railway finally came to the end of its lease in 1929 and a massive water chute was installed to replace it. The same year the Colonial Exhibition was held in Paris and when it ended the Pleasure Beach purchased the huge Scenic Railway that had been built especially for the exhibition by Herr Erich Heidrich, a famous German expert in this field. The ride was dismantled, shipped to Great Yarmouth and re-erected by the German team over the next couple of years. The new Scenic Railway opened in summer 1932 and has been the lynch pin of the Pleasure Beach ever since. It is capable of handling 2,500 passengers per hour and the costly and dedicated maintenance down the years has been repaid with an admirable safety record.
Botton Brothers arrived at the Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach in 1954. The two brothers, Albert and Jim, grew up in a fairground environment with the family firm J. Botton & Sons, who had operated a travelling fair around London and the south of England since 1923. Also in 1954 the famous Savages of King’s Lynn three-abreast Gallopers ride arrived at the Pleasure Beach. This 36-horse set holds pride of place at the entrance to the park and has become the endearing trademark whilst other bigger and more costly rides have enjoyed their time in the limelight and moved on. Botton Bros. was formed in 1942, and soon expanded to own rides at many fairgrounds around London and by 1953 had taken over the operation of the big rides at Bertram Mills Olympia Circus. This continued until 1966 but meanwhile Albert had moved to Great Yarmouth to take over the Pleasure Beach. Albert and his wife, Lottie, immediately commenced improving the Pleasure Beach and started by asphalting the whole site, which had previously been duckboards, lay directly on the sands. New rides and better facilities came regularly every year.
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Today Great Yarmouth’s Pleasure Beach is Norfolk main family attraction and people from all over the world visit us.
For something different why not try The Pleasure Beach Great Yarmouth as the perfect location for events, functions,special occasions and celebrations including: wedding receptions, birthday parties, business meetings, valentines nights, christenings, wakes, Christmas parties, New Years Eve parties, Charity Nights and fund raisers and many more.
Hot and cold drinks and meals are available all day.  For a great family fun day out at Norfolk’s top family attraction then come and visit us soon as we will take care of you and your family.
Covid 19 measures are now relaxing and we hope to see you soon
Norfolk’s Premier Family Fun Attraction