Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf in Cleethorpes

A visit to the Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course in Cleethorpes.

Last May we had a brilliant short break in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. The seaside resort has a number of minigolf courses, one of which is the classic Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf near the pier.

We'd visited Cleethorpes once before, back in May 2011. Unfortunately the course was closed on that occasion. Luckily the 18-hole course was open this time and I enjoyed a few games on the lovely layout during our few days in town.

The Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course in Cleethorpes became the 482nd played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Photos from our visit on the 18th May 2018.

Related blog posts:
- Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf in Cleethorpes
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Cleethorpes

Videos:
- Arnold Palmer Putting Course in Cleethorpes
- Arnold Palmer Putting Course in Cleethorpes - the windmill
- Arnold Palmer Putting Course in Cleethorpes - hole 15
- Arnold Palmer Putting Course in Cleethorpes - hole 18

Thorpe Park Adventure Golf course in Cleethorpes

A look at the Adventure Golf course at Thorpe Park Holiday Centre in Cleethorpes.

Many thanks to my friend Gemma Rogers for sending over some snaps of the Adventure Golf course at the Haven Thorpe Park Holiday Centre in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Visit out the Thorpe Park Holiday Centre website for more info.

Emily and I visited Cleethorpes back in 2011. The seaside resort is home to a number of Crazy Golf courses - as is the Lincolnshire coast in general - and we did swing by the Thorpe Park Haven on our way to Mablethorpe. We're looking forward to a return visit to Cleethorpes in the future.

Check out these other guest blog posts from friends who have visited Haven Holiday Centres including the Golden Sands Caravan Holiday Park in Mablethorpe, Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park and Allhallows Leisure Holiday Park in Rochester.

Link:
- Thorpe Park Holiday Centre

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Cleethorpes
- Haven

60 ways to get more out of your golf - play more minigolf

#48 is all about Crazy Golf.

In November last year I was named Officially Britain’s Craziest Golfer by Today's Golfer magazine and in a follow-up I was recently asked to contribute to a feature that appears in the April 2016 edition (on sale from 18th February to 16 March).

The magazine has collected together 60 ways to get more out of your golf in 2016. At number 48 is an interview where I've selected some of the top hot spots to putt on mini, crazy and adventure golf courses in the UK.

The HUGE windmill on the Oddballs Crazy Golf course in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire gets a mention in the Today's Golf article. Check out the magazine to see where else I selected

The issue of Today's Golfer also contains a look at the new miniature golf course at The Belfry.

Lovely to see some big coverage of the mini game.

Check out the Today's Golfer website to read my interview from last year at "This bloke has played 640 crazy golf courses. Just one question... why???"

Link:
- Today's Golfer magazine

Related blog posts:
- Officially Britain’s Craziest Golfer
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Richard Gottfried's Minigolf Player Profile

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A Miniature Golf course at the Smallest Pub on the Planet

New Minigolf course installed at The Signal Box Inn, Cleethorpes.

In May 2011 Emily and I went on a tour of the Lincolnshire coast and the first stop off was in Cleethorpes. While we were there we managed to play two courses - a Crazy Golf and an indoor Adventure Golf. We also found a great pub called The Signal Box Inn, which just happened to be the smallest pub on the planet!

The Signal Box Inn - the smallest pub on the planet! Photo by Alan Cowood, Sept 2012

While there we sampled some of the cider and had a great chat with the landlord Alan Cowood. Telling him about our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and our love of pub games he showed us the 'Games Room' at the pub. Following our visit I sent Alan a 9-hole Miniature Golf course to add to the pub's entertainment options and I've now received photos of the course's installation.

Hole 5 of the Signal Box Inn's Miniature Golf course. Photo by Alan Cowood, Sept 2012

Due to the Minigolf course's portable nature it is able to be moved around the venue and with nine tricky Crazy Golf holes to master will be sure to entertain patrons of the pub.

Hole 6 of the Signal Box Inn's Miniature Golf course. Photo by Alan Cowood, Sept 2012

If you visit The Signal Box Inn and have a game of Miniature Golf do let me know your scores by leaving a comment on this blog post.

The Signal Box Inn is located at Lakeside Station on the Cleethorpes Light Railway and is open 11am to 11pm Tuesday to Sunday.

The very well stocked bar (and Minigolf course just under the shelf on the right) at The Signal Box Inn. Photo by Alan Cowood, Sept 2012

Related Blog Posts:

- A visit to the Smallest Pub on the Planet

- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - List and links for all Miniature Golf courses visited to date

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Links:

- The Signal Box Inn

- MiniatureGolfer.com - list of Minigolf, Crazy Golf & Adventure Golf courses worldwide

- The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf by Mike Vago
- Cleethorpes Light Railway

Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast

Details of Adventure Golf, Crazy Golf, Minigolf and Putting Green courses that we've visited in Cleethorpes, Mablethorpe, Chapel St Leonards, Skegness, Ingoldmells, Woodhall Spa and Spalding.

In the summer of 2011 our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour took Emily and I to Lincolnshire where we spent a pleasent week touring the seasides, with a few stops inland along the way. As part of our tour of Lincolnshire (and a little bit of Norfolk) we went to seven seasides, visited 34 minigolf and crazy golf courses, played in countless Amusement Arcades and walked along a few Piers too.

At the Jolly Roger Adventure Golf course in Skegness

Note: The numbers below relate to the 'visit number' on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

225 Skellingthorpe (Daisy Made Ice Cream Shop & Drive-Thru) - Crazy Daisy Golf (Swedish Felt B-Run)

226 Cleethorpes (Oddballs) - Crazy Golf

227 Cleethorpes (Fairworld Amusement Arcade) - Adventure Golf

228 Mablethorpe (Queen's Park/Linda's Pavilion) - Crazy Golf

229 Mablethorpe (Sea Front) - Crazy Golf

230 Mablethorpe (Arnold Palmer/Captain Hook's) - Adventure Golf

231 Chapel St Leonards (Sea Dwellers Crazy Golf) - Crazy Golf

232 Chapel St Leonards (Golden Palm Resort Crazy Golf) - Crazy Golf

233 Skegness (North Shore Caravan Park) - Miniature Golf

234 Skegness (Arnold Palmer) - Crazy Golf

235 Skegness (Arnold Palmer) - Putting

236 Skegness (Arnold Palmer) - Crazy Golf

237 Skegness (Jolly Roger) - Adventure Golf (Skull Trail)

238 Skegness (Jolly Roger) - Adventure Golf (Treasure Trail)

239 Skegness (Bottons Pleasure Beach) - Gold Mine Adventure Golf (Adventure Putting) & Cactus Canyon River Ride

240 Ingoldmells (Fantasy Island) - Crazy Golf

241 Woodhall Spa (Bainland Country Park) - 5 Star Crazy Golf - RICHARD SCORES A 'PERFECT' ROUND, WITH 9 HOLES-IN-ONE IN A ROW!

242 Woodhall Spa (Bainland Country Park) - Putting

243 Spalding (Springfields) - Secret Garden Adventure Golf

On the same roadtrip we finished up in Hunstanton where we were able to play a further five Miniature Golf courses.

244 Hunstanton (Victorian Pavilion) - Putting

245 Hunstanton (Victorian Pavilion) - Crazy Golf

246 Hunstanton (Blackbeard's Adventure Golf) - Adventure Golf (Aztec Course)

247 Hunstanton (Blackbeard's Adventure Golf) - Adventure Golf (Pirate Course)

248 Hunstanton (Vegas Amusement Arcade) - Crazy Golf

During the trip we visited the following courses, but were unable to play them for a variety of reasons (details and links below).

- Cleethorpes (Arnold Palmer) - Crazy Golf - Closed on Visit

- Cleethorpes (Terry's Traditional) - Crazy Golf - Closed on Visit

- Cleethorpes (Terry's Traditional) - Putting - Closed on Visit

- Cleethorpes (Thorpe Park Haven Caravan Park) - Putting - £10 Day Rate To Use Facilities - Not Enough Time on Roadtrip

- Cleethorpes (Thorpe Park Haven Caravan Park) - Adventure Golf - £10 Day Rate To Use Facilities - Not Enough Time on Roadtrip

- Cleethorpes (Thorpe Park Haven Caravan Park) - Crazy Golf - £10 Day Rate To Use Facilities - Not Enough Time on Roadtrip

- Mablethorpe (Queen's Park/Linda's Pavilion) - Putting - No Flags Out - Not Fully Open

- Sutton on Sea - Crazy Golf - Demolished

- Chapel St Leonards (Lakeside Boating Lake) - Crazy Golf - Derelict

- Skegness (North Shore Caravan Park) - Mini Golf - Pitch & Putt - Also home to "The Pitch And Putt Inn"

- Skegness (Pebble Adventure Golf) - Adventure Golf - Closed on Visit

- Skegness (South Parade) - Crazy Golf - Closed on Visit

- Skegness (South Parade) - Putting - Closed on Visit

- Skegness (South Parade) - Pitch & Putt - No Time Left To Play

- Long Sutton (The Butterfly and Wildlife Park) - Closed on Visit

On our trip to Lincolnshire we also visited the smallest pub on the planet - The Signal Box Inn - in Cleethorpes. Following our visit I sent them a mini-Miniature Golf course for their games area!

Piers visited on our Lincolnshire & Norfolk Seaside Tour

On our seaside and minigolf road trip along the Lincolnshire and Norfolk coast we managed to visit two 'new' Piers - at Cleethorpes & Skegness - and also visit the amusement arcade in what remains of Hunstanton Pier.

Looking at the Coast Magazine 'Pier Prom Tick List', of the 51 surviving Piers in the UK, we've now visited 34 of them on our travels since 2006! We have also visited five other closed Piers (or their remains) - Hastings, Brighton West, Colwyn Bay, New Brighton & Hunstanton.

Cleethorpes Pier, Lincolnshire

Skegness Pier, Lincolnshire

Hunstanton Pier, Norfolk

Previous Blog Post - Piers we've visited and a new Coast Magazine 'Pier Campaign'

The Great Pier Promenade Flickr Page

The Great Pier Promenade Facebook Page

Coast Magazine on twitter

Laser Quest on Skegness Pier, but not in Cleethorpes

While away on our Seaside and Minigolf Roadtrip to Lincolnshire, we visited two Laser Tag game centres, and managed to play one of them.

In Cleethorpes we were unable to play as the game requires at least four players for it to be finacially viable for the Amusement Arcade to run. The Labyrinths of Doralia at Fairworld does sound intriguing though! We will be back, and in greater numbers...

We had better luck on Skegness where, after a great big Steak Dinner (at Steak n Stuff), Emily and I went for a one-on-one Laser Tag Battle at the Laser Quest on Skegness Pier!

I won :-) Emily scored 117, and I scored 287. Our 'colour' was MIXED rather than the standard RED or GREEN!

There has been no change in the Laser Tag Rankings since the last update.

Cleethorpes (Thorpe Park Haven Caravan Park) - Putting, Crazy Golf & Adventure Golf

The Haven Holiday Park in Cleethorpes - Thorpe Park - is home to a Putting Course, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf. However, we didn't play any of them on our trip to the town.

The site does allow 'Day Pass' visitors access, but at £10.00 each and additional costs to play the courses (and lack of time to make good use of the other facilities on site) we decided to head off to Mablethorpe and beyond, on the next leg of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

On a side note - Petrol Station Company TOTAL and Haven Holidays are using Crazy Golf/Minigolf to advertise a promotion they are running!

Related blog posts:
- Haven
- Total Petrol, Haven Holidays and Crazy Golf
- List of courses visited and played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast

Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf in Cleethorpes

A visit to the Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

The last of the Cleethorpes Minigolf courses we visited on Wednesday 18th May 2011 was the 18-hole Arnold Palmer Putting Course.

Unfortunately it was closed on our visit.

We'll be heading back to Cleethorpes again in the future, so hopefully we'll get a chance to play this example of my favourite type of Minigolf course then.

Related blog posts:
- Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - List and links for all Miniature Golf courses visited to date

Terry's Traditional Crazy Golf and Putting in Cleethorpes

A visit to the Terry's Traditional Crazy Golf course in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

On our Cleethorpes-leg of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour we were able to play two minigolf courses. However, three of the five courses (in the main seaside area) were closed.

Terry's Traditional Crazy Golf & Putting Green (featuring 27-holes of Minigolf!) was unable to be played on our visit.

We're definitely going to be heading back to Cleethorpes again in the future as it was such a great seaside resort. So hopefully we'll get to play Terry's Crazy Golf & Putting Green then...

Related blog posts:
- Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - List and links for all Miniature Golf courses visited to date