Golden Palm Resort

Coast and countryside are both close to hand from Golden Palm Resort, with Skegness and Mablethorpe about fifteen minutes’ drive away and the Lincolnshire Wolds inland full of chalk hills, valleys, Viking villages and market towns. Ingoldmells is even closer for Fantasy Island and the huge indoor market; Sutton on Sea’s laidback beach with gardens and seafront paddling pool is a few miles away, and Cleethorpes is along the coast to the north.

If you’re tired of the seaside you’re tired of life, goes the quote we’ve just paraphrased, but if it should be the case that a bit of rain falls or you want to get off the beach for a bit, several family options are around these Lincolnshire seaside towns. The Natureland Seal Sanctuary at Skegness should provide a honking great time, as should the National Parrot Sanctuary, Pandas Palace Indoor Play Area and Captain Kids Adventure World; once it dries off a bit drive north to Cleethorpes for the Pleasure Island Theme Park and the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway along the coast.

For grownup concerns, the 18-hole links course at Sandifords between Skegness and Mablethorpe, the racecourse at Market Rasen and the circuit races at Cadwell Park should help to preserve sanity, as will a pootle around the car boot sales at Chapel St Leonards to pick up bargains.

Bards can wander around Somersby, home of poet Alfred Tennyson, or take in part of the 130-mile Tennyson Trail from Louth through Mablethorpe and Skegness; and historians will find highlights all over Lincolnshire, such as the five-sailed mill at Alford, huge Thornton Abbey with its maize maze and summer fruit picking, or taking a day at Lincoln to see the cathedral and eleventh century castle.