Having moved to Scarborough to retire, we think this is the best place on the east coast, more up market than Skeggy!! Does that make me a snob?

I like Whitby and Robin Hoods Bay, tho the beach at Bridlington is also very nice

ingoldmells is more tacky than skeggy!

Filey and Whitby are my favourites.

I love skeggy, however its gone very down market with an influx of 14yr old mothers taking their children there...

Whitby is my favourite.

:thumbsup: Ingoldmells market is ok but i like Scarborough i remember 1976 was hot hot hot

I'm old so its good old Flamborough for me.:thumbsup:

Mablethorpe rules! The most up to date Arcades on the East Coast, nice Beaches, it's the Torquay of Northern England.

I like Withernsea, it's so quiet... empty even.

Originally posted by Rich
Mablethorpe rules! The most up to date Arcades on the East Coast, nice Beaches, it's the Torquay of Northern England.

Have to agree with you there. Have been there with the kids for the past two years and had a great time. Lovely clean beaches and not overly commercial either.

I guess it depends on what you're looking for. For families with kids I think Mablethorpe is great. :D

The east coast is great all round.

Love Robin Hoods Bay and Whitby, and Scarborough is O.K, i spent a lot of my youth up here with mates and school.
Recently been up to Northumberland and that is all lovely too, East Anglia (though most of this is disappearing rapidly) and right down south, Deal and Kingston nr Dover are all great too, history and walking and sea.

Not yet made it to the east coast of Scotland always done the west up there. And do usually do Welsh coast too.

Mind u maybe i just love the coast, i was born in Grimsby and spent a lot of time at Meggies (Cleethorpes), but it is horrid where it is all commercial, you need to go up the other end where the dunes bit is. And Skeggy is somewhere that we just don't go to.

Scarborough is pure class ... but the rollercoasters at Skeggy (fantasy island) are just a bit better than the ones in Scarborough.

But then ... you don't get the waves on Marine Drive at Skeggy do you !?

Originally posted by Jon
:thumbsup: Ingoldmells market is ok but i like Scarborough i remember 1976 was hot hot hot

I was born during that hot season.... Probably why I'm such a hottie :lol:

Well you can't blame a bloke for blowing his own trumpet sometimes... :P

I'd have to say Whitby, without a doubt!!

Whitby - off season - sat in the pub (Duke of York, I think, on the corner table in the window) with a nice cold pint, watching the boats come in to the harbour. Fantastic.

It's Scarborough for me, particularly the grand Victorian end of the town. Also, the Harbour Bar on the seafront is just class.

I've never really liked Whitby very much. Not sure why, because it's a picturesque setting and endearingly chaotic, but whenever I'm there, I just don't really like it as much as I feel I should!

Having said all this, if you want the best seaside town in the UK, it's got to be St Ives in Cornwall for me. But that's a whole different thread!

Skeg Vegas - the fact my nan lives there probably makes me biased though :)

Whitby definately. Skeg should be nuked!

Originally posted by spook
Whitby definately. Skeg should be nuked!

Haha! My moms fella comes from Skeg and I think he'd agree with you! :D

**** ONLY JOKING ****

Starting at the top of the country
Edinburgh
St Andrews
Whitby
Scarborough
Bridlington
Sheringham

east coast of isle of white is nice!

oher than that i like Flamborough Head. thats cool. as Fuzzy says its all good, except Newcastle, and Hull and big cities ect

Scarborough and Whitby, definitely.

Bridlington, I suppose; but they are all a bit run down these days.

Cleethorpes is great. I sometimes stay for months at a time.

Originally posted by Abu Khan
Cleethorpes is great. I sometimes stay for months at a time.

I just hope your joking...

Originally posted by Rich
Mablethorpe rules! The most up to date Arcades on the East Coast, nice Beaches, it's the Torquay of Northern England. Hmmm, I worry about you some times Rich.:confused: .
Whitby tops the list for me and although Scarbrough also has a decent beach I have a relative who has a B&B on the Quays and find the place is starting to go down hill a bit, I do say a bit and maybe the council should keep an eye out for that and keep Scarbrough as it was in the sixties.

Originally posted by Cycleracer
find the place is starting to go down hill a bit

The entire place appears to be going downhill, literally. It's all gonna end up in the sea soon.
Every time I go, the castle is a bit nearer to the edge of the cliff...

Mablethorpe has one added feature that not many ppl know....
Just north of the town Nr the Showboat pub .... there is an area that is used by NUDISTS .....

Originally posted by nivaone
Mablethorpe has one added feature that not many ppl know....
Just north of the town Nr the Showboat pub .... there is an area that is used by NUDISTS .....

And you appear to know far too well where it is. :o mind you so does everyone else now :wink:

Originally posted by Cycleracer
Hmmm, I worry about you some times Rich.:confused: .
Whitby tops the list for me and although Scarbrough also has a decent beach I have a relative who has a B&B on the Quays and find the place is starting to go down hill a bit, I do say a bit and maybe the council should keep an eye out for that and keep Scarbrough as it was in the sixties.

WTF?! Why would commenting on the Arcades in Mablethorpe be cause for worrying about me? :confused:

Originally posted by fuzzy
And you appear to know far too well where it is. :o mind you so does everyone else now :wink:

Yea thats right ... so I will be taking coach trips to see the nudies .. Just send £10 to book a place :-)

Gotta be Whitby.:thumbsup: Great for all ages, top coastal roads for motorcycling:D and surprisingly good for stag night/weekend.:partyhat: 26 pubs last count (may have been 13 + double vision),:partyhat: and only 3 Aidensfield coppers to police it!:wink: