Palace Hotel
🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Southend Three Shells (Excellent water quality)
Southend-on-Sea
Theme Parks · Essex
Adventure Island
📍 SS1 1EE
Photo: Linda Craven (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
- Over 40 rides and attractions on site
- Six storey Soft Play centre
- Funtopia indoor amusement park
- Sealife Adventure aquarium next door
- Drop tower ride called Vertigo
Adventure Island is a free entry theme park on Southend seafront, packed with over 40 rides and attractions, a six storey Soft Play, prize arcades, cafes, restaurants and sideshows, plus the neighbouring Sealife Adventure aquarium and indoor Funtopia amusement park. It suits families and groups of all ages, with rides for younger children as well as bigger thrill rides such as the drop tower Vertigo. The park has step-free entrances, wheelchair and pushchair access, hearing loops and trained First Aid staff on hand. It sits in Southend-on-Sea, just 0.4 miles from Southend Central station and 0.2 miles from Southend Three Shells beach, with 10 bookable places to stay within 5 miles if you fancy making a longer visit of it.
Practical details
- Open
- Adventure Island opens at 11am
- Booking
- Free entry, pay for rides via wristbands
- Dogs
- Only trained assistance dogs permitted
- Accessibility
- Step-free entrances and wheelchair access points
- Parking
- Council-owned parking available nearby
From the attraction's own website on 27 Sep 2026 — check before you travel.
Facilities
- ✓ Cafe
- ✓ Takeaway Food
- ✓ Amusements
- ✓ Toilets
- ✓ Gift Shop
- ✓ Indoor Areas
- ✓ Parking
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Make a proper break of it — these stays are all within 25 miles.
0.1 mi
0.2 mi
The Hope Hotel
✓ Set in an 18th Century Grade II listed coaching inn on the seafront
🏖️ 0.36 miles from Southend Three Shells (Excellent water quality)
Southend-On-Sea
0.3 mi
The Last Post
✓ Pub and hotel combined for food, drink and rooms
🏖️ 0.26 miles from Southend Three Shells (Excellent water quality)
Southend-on-Sea
0.5 mi
Travelodge
✓ Within walking distance of the beach and Southend Pier
🏖️ 0.44 miles from Southend Three Shells (Excellent water quality)
Essex
0.6 mi
1.1 mi
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🗓️ Make a break of it
Turn a visit to Adventure Island into a proper getaway — ready-made plans, and the drive worked out with fuel, EV charging and the best stops.
🚆 Or come by train
- Southend Central 0.4 miles
- Southend Victoria 0.7 miles
- Southend East 0.8 miles
Straight-line distances · live departures on each station page