Attractions
Scarborough Walking Tours, from Visit Scarborough, offer guided walking tours of Scarborough. See our store page
for upcoming walks. Prices are just £12pp for a 2 hour 15 minute walk.
The only vintage open top bus in Scarborough. Breathe in that sea air between Scarborough’s biggest attractions and feel that wind in your hair on our open top bus. Visiting Peasholm Park, North Bay Railway, Luna Park, the seafront, and all the arcades and make it day to remember.
Scarborough has some of the best beaches in the country, with the perfect castle-building sand! There is a mixture of soft sand and tidal hard sand. Scarborough is home to some stunning rock pools, where at low tide you can explore and maybe find crabs, fish and even lobsters! But do make sure you know the tide times...
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No visit to Scarborough is complete without a visit to the fabulous Luna Park. Fantastic rides, an amazing atmosphere, delicious food and lots of family fun! Luna Park has been fully refurbished recently and is perfectly positioned in the heart of Scarborough on the harbourside.
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Scarborough has two remaining cliff tramways, both in South Bay, including the oldest cliff tramway in the UK at Scarborough Spa. The other, Cliff Tramway next to the Grand Hotel, is celebrating 140 years this summer.
Dive into an amazing underwater world and take a fascinating journey to the ocean depths as you discover over 2500 amazing creatures at this unique indoor and outdoor attraction including the new Rainforest Adventure. Discover the incredible creatures of the Great Barrier Reef, head outside and meet the cheeky colony of Humboldt penguins, Yorkshire’s only Seal Hospital and much more.
The Scarborough Fair Collection hosts a magnificent working collection of Vintage Cars, Steam Engines, Vintage Fairground Rides and Mechanical Organs topped off with a ‘Mighty’ Wurlitzer Organ in our spacious ballroom. We are set in the scenic grounds of the Flower of May Holiday Park, on the coast road between Scarborough and Filey.
All the way from the Alps, Alpamare Scarborough is a waterpark like no other. If you love adventure, it’s time to experience the biggest, the fastest, the wettest, the warmest, the cleanest, the waviest, the newest, the funnest, the most unlike-any-waterpark-you’ve-seen before waterpark.
North Yorkshire AquaPark is a floating inflatable course including climbing walls, trampolines, balance bars, rockers, rollers and blast bags. The AquaPark is suitable for individuals, groups, adults and children – anyone who wants to have fun in the water! Get ready for a ‘total wipeout’!
The best way to see the sights. Travel between Scarborough’s South Bay, Harbour and North Bay, taking in the resort's biggest attractions on the famous open top buses, visiting Peasholm Park, Sea Life, Alpamare Water Park and more.
With its stunning location and panoramic views over the dramatic Yorkshire coastline, the castle will be the pinnacle of your visit to Scarborough. Experience 3,000 years of history, play on the grassy headland, and grab a take away coffee from the coffee shed.
North Bay Railway has been taking families between Peasholm and Scalby Mills for 90 years! And some of the engines are that old too. There's also the historic water chute, pedalos, Sky Trail and more.
North Yorkshire AquaPark is a floating inflatable course including climbing walls, trampolines, balance bars, rockers, rollers and blast bags. The AquaPark is suitable for individuals, groups, adults and children – anyone who wants to have fun in the water! Get ready for a ‘total wipeout’!
The best way to see the sights. Travel between Scarborough’s South Bay, Harbour and North Bay, taking in the resort's biggest attractions on the famous open top buses, visiting Peasholm Park, Sea Life, Alpamare Water Park and more.
With its stunning location and panoramic views over the dramatic Yorkshire coastline, the castle will be the pinnacle of your visit to Scarborough. Experience 3,000 years of history, play on the grassy headland, and grab a take away coffee from the coffee shed.
North Bay Railway has been taking families between Peasholm and Scalby Mills for 90 years! And some of the engines are that old too. There's also the historic water chute, pedalos, Sky Trail and more.
Oliver's Mount Road Racing Circuit is unique and hugely popular. There are events throughout the year when the country park becomes a motorcycling racing circuit.
One of the longest and most scenic steam railways in the country, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway winds its way through forests and moorland valleys between Pickering and Whitby taking in Levisham, Goathland and Grosmont along the way.
Scarborough has loads of options, from speedboats to fishing trips to Hispaniola Pirate Ship. Some trips may need booking in advance, usually the longer fishing trips, but most you can just turn up, pay and sail! Watch out for Porpoises and even occasionally Dolphins!
A tradition that continues with generation after generation enjoying a donkey ride on the beach. Find donkeys in South Bay in Scarborough.
