🏠 IndoorEducationalSeasonal openingBirthday parties☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
- Birthday parties
Access & inclusion
- SEN friendly
Limited one-hour parking outside the Caves; nearest car park is Trinity Square (CT9 1QY).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Margate Caves are a man-made underground network, first dug as a chalk mine and later a Victorian seaside attraction, reopened in 2019 after a community campaign. Children can wander the narrow chalk tunnels and chambers, looking at old murals and graffiti on the walls, and there are exhibition spaces and finds from the site on display in the visitor centre. Stairs, a steep low tunnel and uneven floors mean it suits children who can manage some scrambling and stairs, and it is not reachable for wheelchair users. The visitor centre has a café, a gift shop and toilets, and there are workshops and school visits, a Father Christmas experience in winter and children's parties. Allow around three quarters of an hour for a visit. Opening days vary through the year, so check before travelling.
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.
A penForms, competitions, name badges.- Wet bagFor whatever comes home soaked.
- Children's paracetamol sachetsThe one thing a farm shop never sells.
Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
Spare shoesOne puddle and the day is decided otherwise.
Tissues
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