Royal Pavilion and Gardens
Museums & Science Centres · Sussex, East & West Sussex
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 9.30am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Gardens☔ Rainy-day friendlyEducationalSeasonal openingMemberships available
What’s there
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No on-site parking. Nearest paid car parks: The Lanes Car Park (Black Lion Street), NCP Brighton Theatre (Church Street), Carlton Hill and Churchill Square.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Royal Pavilion is Brighton's iconic seaside palace, built for King George IV and now run by the Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust. Step inside to explore the opulent Banqueting Room, the Music Room with its famous dragons, the Great Kitchen, the restored Saloon and the Royal Bedrooms, or take a guided tour of the building, domes and basement tunnels. The surrounding Royal Pavilion Garden is free and open to everyone — a peaceful green space in the heart of the city that has been public since 1850, with wide tarmac paths, lawns and benches. Families are well catered for: the Baby Pavilion Guide (the first of its kind in the UK, developed with researchers from the Sussex Baby Lab) helps parents explore with babies, child tickets cover ages 5-18, family passes give one child ticket free with at least one adult and two children, and the ground floor is buggy friendly with a buggy park and baby changing facilities. Pavilion opening hours vary by season (April-September 9.30am-5.45pm, October-March 10am-5.15pm).
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Bibs
- Cool bag
- Flask of tea
- Rucksack
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Woolly hat
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