| Your Views and Opinions of Mablethorpe |
| What do you think of Mablethorpe? Are you a holiday maker, a day visitor or a local? What is your favourite place in Mablethorpe? What do you think of our Website? Please put your comments here.. |
| Ever since i was 3 ive been staying at mablethorp my grandma and grandad have there own caravan on trusthorpe site and every year i cant wait to go the food entertainment and clean beach is perfect for my stay i cant wait to go in july im so excited its a really good place to et your hair down :p xx rebecca from nottingham (Wednesday, July 21, 2010) After spending a few days with her brother and wife at the caravan they have at Mablethorpe, my wife gave me a body blow "i have bought a van on the same site,as Alf" in all honesty its not at the top of my places to go.my first recollections of Mablethorpe was in 1943 barrage balloons and barb wire,gun slits for the home guard.now my heart is warming to the place the folk are my kind of people. The shops are very good, Lord Bros as everything you could want and at very fair prices.Yes i can now say its my fav place on the east coast. hi, i took my three boys to mablethorpe for the week from may 28th, we had a great time, the beach is lovely and clean and the kids had fun at the pool too, i remember the old stepping stones in it when i was younger but its a lot better now. i will be going every year and rent a van on towervans from a wonderfull lady. its a home from home. i went every year when i was growing up for 16 years and loved it, its now a tradition for me and my three every year also, and go to the same caravan site. my boys had a great week and their nanna came along with their brother and had fun too. they loved the arcades and the fair and the clock chippy food is as good as it was years ago if not better. Another visit to Mablethorpe Princess of Lincolnshire, just had a great week sun sea and sand in abundance, lovely people and a very pretty town who needs more!! Spain eat your heart out! Our family have been going to Mablethorpe now for 7 yrs and to be honest i think its going slowly down hill. There are alot of shops full of rubbish, the Haven site as a rat problem and all they could say was, well what do you expect your in a field. I tell you what i expect, maybe to see the odd one but not a family of 15 running out 4ft away from me and one run straight out in front of my daughters feet. Disgusting, does anyone know who this can be reported to cause Haven was"nt bothered at all. Hello there, I'm 50 this year and live in Miami now but for years and years as as child we used to go to Mablethorpe. I loved it ! i used to go to mabo as a child and loved it,my parents had a caravan on golden sands,we went their for our honeymoon,and a couple of times after that as well,but we returned for our ruby wedding anniversary for a nostalga treat,but what a dump,apart from the nice beach,nothing has changed,its nice to keep a seaside resort not to commercalised,but comeon,the shops are tatty still full of the same old junk and ornaments from the 50s,the rest of the stuff they sell is tat,its a wonder it has survived,lots of fat people walking about full of junk food,oh dear! Great Town. Good Festivals.Beautiful Sandy Beach. Friendly People. Good Willing Volunteers.Lovely Countryside.Family from Bolton, Boston, Rhyl and Birkenhead love it! Needs Investment. I lived in Mablethorpe during my teen years and left in 1971. It is a beautiful place with out of this world surrounding countryside. The people are laid back and friendly. I miss it deeply as my "home home". Great holiday every time , mablethorpe is top on my list it.s like a home to me, been going 2 mablethorpe for the past 5yrs now stayed at the same guest house fairhaven well recommend it has a nice relaxed atmosphere well worth staying at this bed and breakfast you will have a great time and will want to go back x Hi Mablethorpe is a great place to go. the sand racing is a brilliant and brings in people at winter time. The festival on saturday 20th march was a little disappointing it was in the stalls was in the wrong place it would of been better on the big carpark by the childrens holiday home i know the weather didnt help but i think u would could off had more stalls and more people would off come. the stunts was a good idea as it got people round that end. Great Beach - BUT- a very tatty high street - monopolised . by dubious looking takeaways and machine arcades. Also needs a decent hotel. Its a great place, it has a top class beach, the people are very frendly. The only drawback is that it could due with modernising the council and local business should be investing in the jewel. Its a great place and it would be sad for this jewel to disappear in the sands of time. A couple of suggestions I could make, new modern shop fronts a swimming pool would be nice, also a extention to the funfair for the kids, more rides more people, = more money simple, so come on Mablethorpe lets see this happen and make Mablethorpe the top spot again. When I was a child we used to go to Golden Sands for as many years as I can remember. Now I own a chalet here and all the memories are still there. Fantastic beach, friendly people and everything you could want within walking distance. What more could you want?! Cannot believe no big switch on, no mention in Skeg & Mabo mag.. still cannot wait to meet up with friends from all over country. Still miss Big Pete Young in the Louth Hotel, get him to do lights. We always stay at mablethorpe chalet park, i used to stay their as a child ,we used to bring our children on holiday their , and now we take the grandchildren ,mablethorpe is great palce to stay ,the beaches are lovely as so are the people, all the takeaways are yummy can't decide which one we like best so we order from them all, booked for july 2010 roll on summer. Me and my partner think mablethorpe is great, we've had lots of happy times there, my partner used to come every year when he was a child with the rest of the family, we spent our first holiday together there and have done every year since (apart from the two yrs on the trot we went to disneyland) but nothing compares to mablethorpe, we have a great time, we stay at the haven holiday park, where you can get everything you need in a short distance, we go into mablethorpe every day and always discover something new!! the only suggestion we have is, maybe you could modernise the town abit, move into the 21st century, but dont go to far, see you this year (the websites wonderful, by the way) Thanks for your reply, it's a shame we missed the rest of the beach huts, i meant enter ours next year! I will look forward to seeing the pictures on the website. It was a lovely weekend, my son really enjoyed playing the drums in the music workshop on trusthorpe green! Hi carla Hi, was at Mablethorpe all weekend for the bathing beauties festival with my mum and 9 month old son. Had a great weekend but it could have been better. I'd like to know who won the competition for best decorated beach hut? We had a walk on Sat morn to have a look and could only see 2 huts that had entered, up near the coral cafe. Did anyone enter from the huts along sutton on sea? Also what happened to the longest linear dance parade down the promenade? Only 1 dance troup turned up! What a shame more people didn't make an effort and why is the festival so late on in the year, it would attract more people if it was in the middle of the summer holiday, surely? We had a fab time last week in Mablethorpe. It was so clean ,the beach was clean and the people are so friendly.The car park only cost 3 quid for the day, and we found loads of great shops. I have nothing but great memories of Mablethorpe. I came here as a young teenager in the early 1970's with my family, on our summer holiday. We came three times. What a long way it seemed from Birmingham! And our car always seemed to break down at Lincoln! We used to stay at Trusville and had a whale of a time. Such freedom. Playing football in those funny shelters (stil there, I see), fun at the putting green, whelks and winkles at a stall on the prom. The brilliant chippy outside Trusville, and the one-arm bandit places in town. And of course that fantastic beach. I've been back since, just once, a few years ago and other than the old convalescent home having been replaced by flats it had hardly changed. It's great and I must come back again one day. i was born in mablethorpe lived their for 16 yrs left in 1980 things were much more busy when we had the train station i remember it well the old bridge used to be opposite where the co.op is now just think how much more people would come back to mablethorpe if the old single line was back from skegness to mablethorpe i still cant drive and i go evry year with my grandchildren i love it the air is so fresh not fshy smellin like most seasides and it always had the best beach it was a bad mistake takin away the train it took away the holidaymakers............. Only having been to Mablethorpe once before, many years ago we went for the day Sun 13th July.I can't say enough good things about it,from the reasonably priced car park...£3 all day,to the excellent food and service in the Regency Cafe (go there for breakfast and you won't be disappointed!!)to what I think is the best beach anywhere on the East Coast.We will definitely be going again and recommending it to all our friends!! Me and my family have spend all our summers at Mablethorpe since i was little and we all love it, lovely clean beaches, nice seafront walks and we love Daves seaside Sutton bus! I have great memmories of Mablethorpe and i am looking forward to bringing my 6 month old son this summer to create some more memmories for him! We recently took over the snack shack and beach chalet hire on the north prom looking over what has to be one of the nicest beaches in england. the local people are very friendly and the council work very hard keeping mablethorpe and the beaches tidy. we moved up here from london 3 years ago and have never looked back, every time we sit outside work having a break its like having another ten minute holiday. mablethorpe has a lot to offer and is an ideal family holiday location. I lived in Mablethorpe for a year in about 1940/1941 and remember being able to go on the beach through the barbed wire. There was a soldier guarding the opening and I think we could only go on a Sunday. Another memory was seeing a German Dornier 17 aeroplane just after lunch when he bombed the cinema and he machine gunned the main street, I can remember walking on the broken glass from the shop windows. There had been a lecture for the soldiers arranged that afternoon in the cinema which luckily had been cancelled that morning so the cinema was empty but because of it there was a hue and cry about there being a spy in the town, because if the lecture had not been cancelled at the last minute there would have been many casualties. Another memory was of my father accidently driving his motor-bike through the closed doors of the hotel which was the HQ of the Anti-Aiscraft battery of which he was the CO. They would not allow him to ride the bike after this, he had to have a driver. I did enjoy my time in Mablethorpe except for the school I was sent to, it was a girls school in Sutton-on-Sea, I hated it. I SPENT A LOT OF MY CHILDHOOD IN MABLETHORPE WITH MY FAMILY.THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE IT,ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO FOR ALL AGES.SUCH WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF FAMILY HOLIDAYS WITH PARENTS & GRANDPARENTS. A fantastic place to holiday and stay. People are friendly, the beaches are brilliant and clean. Great for walking and for our dog. Photographic opportunities are excellent. We will be returning again and again. looking forwards to the summer and friends from allover the country that holiday every year here,the fairway good place for food and the lovely Graham ive been going to mablethorpe for the last 36 years and i love it the people are very friendly its clean i like i can take my dog she loves it on the beach golden sands s were i always stay till this year as its jumped up in price and very expensive to hire a caravan from haven i have now booked a private chalet for september this year it was so much cheaper and only a few yards away from golden sands caravan park
I Just love Mablethorpe, I use to go when I was a kid, it was great then, so its just right that now I have kids that I bring them. I prefer Mablethorpe to Skegness it is a friendly place and always busy. skegness is desolate in the winter but Mablethorpe seems to always be alive. The all day carvery at the Beck is such good value we use it every time we stay at the chalet park. I live in USA now. My mum and dad lived in Mablethorpe for years. It has absolutely beautiful beaches; unspoilt miles of beaches; safe; fun for kiddies; I want to visit with my family sometime soon. I'd can't wait to walk on the beach again and have fish and chips. Oh I do love to be beside the seaside, Oh I do love to be beside the sea..... anyway, in resonse to the lady who wants a swim pool in Mablethorpe - why on earth would you do that if there's miles of beautiful ocean/beach right at your door? It is an mavelous place and every one should go. It is Really fantastic. Love Mablethorpe have a whole lifetime of memories.
We used to go to Golden Sands before Haven was even thought of.
We have had chalet holidays in Trustthorpe.
The beach is the best on the East Coast, sand cricket for everyone.
Sandcastles by the bucket load.
The beach train, the zoo, crazy golf, the dunes and now the new beach chalets to make you smile.
Still miss the big wheel, somehow it as never looked right without that.
Not too big, not too small, just right.
Not over commercialized, but what you need. Just spent a week's holiday in Mablethorpe, my Aunt moved up
here from Dunstable 5 months ago. She loves the place and said it
was the best decision she has ever made. I could not agree more
- Maplethorpe has a character of its own,unspoilt by commercialism.
The people are so friendly and polite. best holiday place iv been to bought a caravan and come here every
2 weeks ferryboats the place to be for entertainment would rather go to skegness, much better!!! inside skatepark and
outside plaza which are both amazing!! they have pro's down aswell
and i doubt any pro's will go to that one in mablethorpe. Eunice Belgrove, who recently appeared on Deal or No Deal, touched
the heart of everyone who watched her. Although i live in London,
I would like to join any campaign out there for a swimming pool
to be built in Mablethorpe. For someone of her age to have that
much spirit and energy is a happy site to see. 'Love Mablethorpe, stayed there many many times and weekend days
out are very popular. The beach is the best in the world, no where
else could you build such wonderful sandcastles. I love the donkeys
wish I was small enough to have a ride. Last year came to see the
new chalets they were great. My Grand parents and Parents came to mablethorpe, I also come to
mablethorpe, my son now brings his daughter thats 5 generations
guess we love it. The beach is brill, the pace of life slower love
it that much bought a static van at trusville 4 years ago, now when
season open im there every weekend just nip home on a sunday to
go to work.Dont like skeggy to busy ok for a visit but glad to get
back to mablethorpe. iv been coming to mablethorpe all my life and love it, i even worked
there for one summer, but recently my family sold the caravan we
shared so im gutted to say i cant come as often now, one thing i
would like to see is more self catering accomodation open through
the winter, iv been trying to find somewhere to go for february
and am finding it hard. will never leave mablethorpe though. all
locals are really friendly and welcoming. |
| >>> Opinions and Comments since 2002! |