Plan Your Visit...
It's a great time to plan your visit to Scarborough to experience its beautiful coastline, fabulous attractions and warm Yorkshire welcome... For Scarborough Accommodation click here. On this page you'll find info on parking, buses and how to get here by road, rail, sea and air...
When visiting Scarborough, why not use Bee-line Radio Cars. Whatever your transport needs, we will always aim to pick you up promptly and get you exactly where you need to be, whenever you need to be there. Visit our Beeline Radio Cars page here. Or pre-book by calling 01723 366 666.
Scarborough has 26 car parks. 19 of these are Pay & Display. There are 2 Park & Ride sites, one on the A64 Seamer Road and one on the A165 Filey Road at Osgodby. As well as the car parks, there is on-street Pay & Display parking in the town centre and surrounding the town centre many streets fall into a Disc Zone. Discs can be collected from local businesses and hotels in Disc Zone areas.
Local buses are operated by EMYS. They also run seasonal Open Top Buses along Scarborough's seafront and a new tour bus called The Scarborough Skipper. Arriva also operate a service into Scarborough from the North East and Coastliner operate services from Leeds, York and Malton to Scarborough.
From the West/ South- A1/ M1 North to Leeds then A64 from Leeds to Scarborough. Or M1 North to Sheffield then M18 East/ M62 East/ A614 to Driffield and then the B1249 to Staxton then A64 to Scarborough.
From the North -A1 South to A168 towards Thirsk and then the A170 Thirsk to Scarborough. Or A19 South to Teesside and from there the A171 to Scarborough.
Scarborough is served by the First Transpennine route,bringing trains direct from Liverpool, Manchester, Blackpool, Leeds, Huddersfield, York. There are East Coast Mainline services from London, Newcastle and Edinburgh to York where you can take a Transpennine Express train direct to Scarborough. Northern Rail also operate a service to Scarborough from Hull and Bridlington. Click Here for more on the Transpennine service to Scarborough and to buy tickets.
The nearest Ferry Port is Hull (around 45 miles away) with P&O Ferries running nightly crossings from Bruges and Rotterdam. There are a number of berths for visiting craft in Scarborough Harbour. Contact the Harbour Master for full details.
The nearest airports are Leeds/ Bradford, Humberside, Doncaster/ Sheffield & Durham Tees Valley Airports.
