Sunday, June 30, 2024

Rhos on Sea Crazy Golf, North Wales

While on holiday in Llandudno North Wales we took the number 12 bus to Colwyn Bay then walked along the coast to Rhos on Sea. 


It's a small, charming resort with a crazy golf course. 

How could we not stop to play?

The course had nine holes and was relatively easy. 

The course wasn't very well maintained however and could have done with some TLC.  

However we still enjoyed playing here.  It was old fashioned fun.


Some of the holes on the course had two possible holes to score in, something we'd never seen before.  

The score card...


Flaming Nora won this game by 1 point. Final scores were Sunny Jim 34 and Flaming Nora 33.

Enjoyment factor 8/10. 

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Saturday, June 29, 2024

Rocky Pines, Llandudno

On holiday in beautiful Llandudno in North Wales and we took a trip by tramway to the summit of Great Orme where there is an 18 hole crazy golf course.


There's also a cafe and a shop at the summit and some stunning views in all directions.


This might be the highest crazy golf course we've played, or could that have been a course up a mountain in Tenerife? You can read our report on the Tenerife course at:

We certainly enjoyed the Llandudno course. 


It was quirky. 

The holes were challenging too, and meant that queues built up while waiting for the groups in front to finish their turn. 

This caused a few laughs and good camaraderie on the course... always good fun.


It looks deceptively simple on our pictures but it was challenging because some of the holes were on steep slopes.


The price was £5 per person, as at June 2024, which was good value for 18 holes and in such a fantastic location. 


Definitely worth making the tram ride up the Great Orme to play a round, see the views and enjoy coffee and Welsh cakes in the cafe.


Sunny Jim won by 1 point.

Final (very high because of such a tricky course!) scores were Sunny Jim 78, Flaming Nora 79.

Enjoyment 10/10. We loved it.
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Monday, May 13, 2024

Blackpool Pleasure Beach Adventure Golf

In Blackpool for a bit of business but managed to squeeze in a round at the very good Pleasure Beach Adventure Golf. 

Result was Flaming Nora 40, Sunny Jim 42. Cost was a whopping £12 each.






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Monday, March 18, 2024

Treasure Island Mini Golf, Bridlington (again)



Off to Bridlington for a long weekend as Flaming Nora was working there at Bridlington library, giving a talk and then a book signing at The Book Nook bookshop in the Old Town. If you're ever in Bridlington, do visit the Old Town, it's stunning and just a short walk from the seafront.

We've played Treasure Island Mini Golf in Bridlington before in 2018, and you can read our first review here.

Happy to report that not much has changed since our last visit. It's still indoors (yippee for somewhere to go when it rains, which it was when we visited!).  It's £6 each for a round and well worth a visit. It's a fun course which had us chuckling.


Scores were Sunny Jim beating Flaming Nora by 3 points.  A good time was had by all.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Paperback publication day ... of the world's first crazy golf cosy crime?!

Now available in paperback!


FOUL PLAY AT THE SEAVIEW HOTEL is a cosy crime / murder mystery set in Scarborough, Yorkshire and published by Headline. 

A murderer plays a killer game when a team of obsessive crazy golfers arrive at Helen Dexter's Seaview Hotel to compete in a tournament held in the seaside town. The ruthless team captain aims to win by fair means or foul... then the rival team captain is murdered. 





It's the third in the Seaview Hotel series of books, which were shortlisted for Best New Crime Series in the Dead Good Readers Awards 2022 with Richard Osman and Val McDermid at Harrogate International Crime Festival. 



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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Publication day! The world's first crazy golf cosy crime?!


It's publication day for my new cosy crime novel, FOUL PLAY AT THE SEAVIEW HOTEL published by Headline in ebook and hardback. The paperback will be published on December 7. 

Could it be the world's first crazy golf cosy crime?

A murderer plays a killer game when a team of obsessive crazy golfers arrive at Helen Dexter's Seaview Hotel to compete in a tournament held in the seaside town. 

The ruthless team captain aims to win by fair means or foul... then the rival team captain is murdered. 


It's the third in the Seaview Hotel series of books, which were shortlisted for Best New Crime Series in the Dead Good Readers Awards 2022 with Richard Osman and Val McDermid at Harrogate International Crime Festival. 


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Sunday, July 30, 2023

New & Updated! North Bay Adventure Golf in Scarborough


The crazy golf course on the North Bay in Scarborough is one of our favourite courses, ever. It's in our happy place of Scarborough and has always been a wonderful course. You can read our earlier reviews here. 

However, after many years of neglect after a massive storm forced seawater onto the course, it became difficult, if not impossible to play. The course wasn't looked after and was going downhill - as well as uphill, side to side, well, you get the gist. We still loved playing it, though!    Now it's been taken over by a new company who have updated the course whilst still retaining the character of this great course.

The location is superb of course, and it's what makes it for me (Flaming Nora). Right on the beach at Scarborough's north bay overlooking the sea, the castle, and waving at the little train that goes by along the cliff top too.  I love it a lot.

Here are some pictures taken today when we played a round.  The updated course now includes an outdoors cafe and bar area too.  One addition I particularly liked, when writing the scores on the score sheet, were the barrels at each hole to rest on while writing scores.  You can also put your drinks and handbags there too while playing.

What's been lost in the upgrade to the course, however, is the chalkboard on the side of the hut to record your name and score.  But on the whole, a great update that keeps the original character of the course.








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