h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Located on the sea front in Yarmouth, sits a quaint fair. It's not the most technically advanced, nor is it filled with the fastest, stomach-churning rides. But it's a fun day out.

The atmosphere is vibrant and seaside-like and only spoiled by the fact that it overlaps into a residential zone, kind of spoiling the overall seaside-iness of it all. You can pay for the rides in tokens, which you buy; I think it's about six for pound, ot you can pay fifteen-ish pounds for a wrist strap which will allow you to get on most of the rides as many times as you like.

There are a couple of amusements, most of the games ageing slightly, but still a providing a good few minutes of entertainment. As with most good fairs, you get the throw-a-hoop-around-a-ducks-neck-and-win-a-prize type stalls, there are a couple of cork gun games, water pistol games, and games that get you to knock over a pile of cans.

As memory serves, there is a food area. Again, don't expect Ainsley Harriot popping up to serve your culinary needs, but it's still filling and pleasant. And yes, as with most fairs, candy-floss is sold here. Yippee!

The rides. The rides vary to suit most ages. The snake slides, which are situated by the entrance and are sometimes operational, can entertain the younger member of the family as can the delightful horse-monorail. It's been there for well over twelve years at least, I remember riding on them when I was younger. Having mentioned that, a fair (pun, quite jovially, intended) number of rides have been there longer than I can remember. This includes the monorail, which follows a path over the horsey ride, through the rollercoaster and past the beach. It's open top, so pray for a sunny day.

I mentioned the rollercoaster. It's a wooden model, no thrills (the biggest drop comes second I beleive) but highly entertaining. It's a good ride for people who wish to be weined onto the faster rides. It also has one of those instant picture features. My sister and me pretended to be asleep on the coaster, the picture was brilliant, but we lost it. You get a lovely view of the beach from the top.

The fun house is moderatley entertaining. The walls are covered in giant those giant, naughty postcards with more innuendos than a Carry On film. Don't go in unless you have good sense of balance.

Also in the Pleasure Beach are all the usual waltzer, spinning cart, merry-go-round type rides. Lovely.

Pleasure Beach also has the advantage of being the coast, which means, the apart from the just the rides inside, you get mini-golf, more amusement arcades than you can ever want, big jumpy slingshot rides (you strap yourself in and get launched into the air), an aquarium, swimming pool, model village, shops, food outlets, lof flume, theatrea dn even another child-orientated fair, all down the front.

I only threw up once there. The man on the waltzer span the carriages in the same direction that the main platform was spinning, making me incredibly dizzy.

Brilliant day out.