Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life Reviews Summary

Accessibility

Pros:

• "Good disabled access and ability to take your time wandering through life before technology."
• "The museum has plenty of places to have a sit down if needed. Access is on the ground floor, and although spread over other floors, the museum is wheelchair accessible, using lifts."
• "All the rooms were wheelchair-friendly, and there was a lift to access different floors."
• "The whole museum is wheelchair and pushchair friendly which was brilliant."

Cons:

• "Although I found the lift a bit peculiar with its ten buttons, which could be confusing for people with disabilities."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Very warm welcome, friendly and helpful staff, great place to visit on a wet or cold day."
• "Very friendly staff that welcomed us as well as very helpful."
• "Staff were lovely and helpful and the cafe was lovely too."
• "Also worth noting that the staff here were very friendly and helpful."
• "Staff are very friendly and helpful."
• "Staff are polite and helpful."
• "The staff were very friendly and very welcoming."

Cons:

• "We again waited and waited. In the end we walked away."
• "Would not go to the silver darling cafe tho as extremely slow and discourteous."
• "Cafe was a let down. Twice went to order food and twice was told to go back to our table... After waiting for someone to come twice, we gave up and left."

Exhibits and Layout

Pros:

• "This is a great museum with lots to see recording the town's link to the sea and fishing in the past as well as general history of the area."
• "The recreation of a Great Yarmouth 'Row' was fascinating, with so much attention to detail."
• "Amazing museum. The recreation of the Rows - historic narrow streets - is terrific."
• "This museum is fantastic, so much to look at from what streets and inside the houses looked like in a fishing town, replicated street."
• "Really well organised museum. Tells the story of Great Yarmouth and the fishing industry in great detail."
• "The museum includes an engaging reconstruction of a 1913 street in Great Yarmouth, plenty of background to the herring industry including smoking stacks, fishing boats, and more."
• "Historic and fascinating and love the way everything was presented especially the rows and the walk in sections with mannequins."

Cons:

• "Overall, I felt like the museum lacked cohesion and each room seemed disconnected from the next."
• "However very disjointed in its exhibits, with very little 'flow', as you pass from Roman Yarmouth to herring smoking to shooting down Zeppelins?"
• "Many of the displays seemed tired and we struggled to entertain the little ones for more than an hour."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "A modest entrance fee is well worth it."
• "Admission was fair priced and overall visit length was about 3 hours."
• "The entry fee was the cheapest I have found."
• "The price is very reasonable in my opinion and parking opposite at £2 for 4 hours is easy."
• "Excellent value for money and fantastic displays."

Cons:

• "On the way out we stopped to buy drinks in the café and they were ridiculously expensive."