Southwold Pier
Outdoor Play & Adventure Playgrounds · Southwold, Suffolk
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 9am
🏠 Indoor & outdoorArcadeSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
Council car park to the left of the pier, available 24 hours; free parking from 6pm.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Southwold Pier extends 623 feet into the North Sea from the Suffolk coast. The pier holds Tim Hunkin's Under the Pier Show, a collection of eccentric machines; a traditional arcade; and The Water Clock and Wacky Walk of Mirrors. The Clockhouse serves lunches, cakes and hot chocolate. The Boardwalk Restaurant and Pier Fish & Chip Shop offer food with sea views. There is shopping at Seaweed & Salt and the Treasure Chest gift shop.
Hours vary by season — official opening-times page filters: Spring, Spring/Summer, Summer, Summer Holidays (18 Jul-31 Aug), Winter, Spring Half Term, Easter holidays, Whitsun Half Term. Pier itself always accessible, weather permitting (wind-closure notices occasionally posted).
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Wristband for lost childrenWrite your number on it before you go in.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Cool bag
- Extra jumper
- Travel games
- Tissues
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