Holidays; bored with Cornwall, fancy Norfolk, any recommendations?

[Cadelaide]

We're thinking of cottage accommodation, a bit of seaside would be good.

Where should we go?

Where should we avoid?

Wells, Holkham, Burnhams are all good.

Well that's a sign we're meant to go there, we have both a Wells and a Burnham close to us here in Somerset!

Avoid Yarmouth. (Sorry if anyone lives here).

I like Norfolk I do. Cromer's lovely.

There you are then! There are about five (or maybe seven?) different Burnhams, Burnham Market, Burnham Overy Staithe, Burnham Deepdale ... all nice. In the other direction from Wells, Cley-next-the-Sea is cute but I think it's a bit of a mare with small kids. Wells has the best proper 'beach' - Norfok is so flat that the beaches and flats go on for miles in a lot of places and the sea is a distant blur on the horizon!

the north coast between Brancaster and Cromer is pretty much all fab (if a bit chelsea-by-sea). weather isn't as reliable as cornwall, bit prone to mists and dampness. beautiful beaches.

Right then, off to google Cromer...

I love Great yarmouth

Holkham is gorgeous, we are staying at Cley this year, just so peaceful and chilled out.

Got fed up with Cornwall after being rained off three years in a row. So far we have had nothing but sunshine in Norfolk

We usually do one week in the North and one week by the broads (Clippesby Hall and Bewilderwood).

Cadelaide Nooooo not Cromer,its the only bit that is really not nice!

Great Yarmouth is actually better than Cromer,Yes it's a bit tacky but at least it is not terribly run down.

you won't go far wrong here

oooh, that looks good.

Thanks serin

And the Nelson (just outside Burnham Mkt) is good for lunch with kids - massive garden with tyres for swinging on etc

Southwold is lovely with a bit of everything.

Stick to North Norfolk.

My favourite place in all the world.

Agree with all the above re: Burnhams, Holkham, Wells, etc.

best beaches with small children are Brancaster and Wells.
Avoid Fakenham as a holiday place!
Holt v nice little georgian town.
Blakeney would be a good place to rent a cottage esp one with it's own parking. (parking in Blakeney is tricky in summer as the High St v narrow).

There is a good website - Glaven Valley - for looking for accommodation.

My friend has just come back from a weekend here and loved it. The bedroom balcony overlooks the sea!

Wells and Brancaster are the nicest places really, as well as Southwold, the bigger places like Fakenham, Cromer and Yarmouth are horribly tacky and ruined by hoardes of 'simple' holiday-makers.

Be warned. The experession 'normal for Norfolk' doesn't come from no-where.

I camp just outside Wells with DS at the start of every summer and we have a fab time, the coast near Wells is beautiful if you are prepared to walk a littel bit away from the entrance. I am always amazed that 95% of the beachgoers stay right by the entrance.

But how can you be bored with Cornwall? It is so varied and the landscape is so spectacular and varied. Norfolk is all the same, just flat and wet.

Southwold is in Suffolk, miles away from N Norfolk!

Fakenham used to be lovely. I grew up there. It's almost unrecognisable.

I agree with North Norfolk. The Burnhams (all 7 of them) are lovely. Wells/Holkham/Brancaster etc are nice coastal areas.

Good places inland too. Dinosaur Park, Bewilderwood, Gressenhall. Depends on age of children.

I am Scottish but live in Norfolk. I do like North Norfolk and the region as a whole, but it is a struggle to find things to do if it rains, Norfolk is geared for warm weather activities and there is not much else if the weather is rubbish.

agree it is very outdoorsy...save trips to cinema and maybe Norwich for the rain. North Norfolk coast the best place as previously mentioned!

In the rain:
The Steam Museum at Thursford: big steam driven dance hall organs, traction engines and some steam roundabouts.
Inside Holkham, Felbrigg or Blickling Halls (the last two are national tust)
Sit in the birdwatching centre on the coast road between Cley an salthouse and look over the marshes with the big telescopes
Sea Life Centre at Hunstanton (not wildly impressive, but you might be desparate)
Roots Museum of rural life, gressenhall.
Splash indoor pool at Sheringham
Some ghastly (and possibly AmDram) musical at the v sweet Little Theatre in Sheringham
Multiplex cinema in Cromer
There is an indoor soft play place in WElls - on the corner of the beach road.

But good waterproofs and having a picnic under one of the beach huts on stilts on Wells beach is the secret!

Blu - Have you really been to Gressenhall in the rain? 1hour tops and you would be done same with any of the halls, which tbh my ds finds boring.