Is Ipswich A Good Holiday Destination?

[wolf63]

TripAdvisor thinks that Ipswich is an up-and-coming holiday destination, but is it true?

https://www.suffolkgazette.com/tripadvisor-ipswich/?

[Peter Pedant]

People should read the article
I went to Ipswich once - but it was closed! - - thx to W C Fields

Sorry to see Luxor at no 3 - quite liked it as it is.
Going in Nov.
Beirut is so badly governed, I wdnt go
Kalinigrad ( old Konigsberg - you know where the problem comes from) - after what they did to the basket ball player, I wdnt go there either. ( but it is an exclave )

[douglas9401]

The Suffolk Gazzette is a spoof newspaper but I'm sure you were just playing along. :-)

[wolf63]

If it is reported in a newspaper then it must be true!

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[naomi24]

Ipswich is a nice town - not far from the sea with some lovely unspoilt resorts and just down the road from beautiful ‘Constable country’. Handy for visiting historical Norwich too with its castle and lovely cathedral.

[douglas9401]

It's long been a mecca for stock car fans too.

[Buenchico]

The Suffolk Gazette is, indeed, a spoof newspaper but the basis of the article is true:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-51620577

I was born and raised in Ipswich and, having returned to my home county after a couple of decades in Sheffield, I've lived 9 miles down the road from there for the past 30-odd years. (I've been shopping in Ipswich this afternoon). It's a town that's very much 'on the up', especially in the Waterfront district (which is packed with bars and restaurants)
https://allaboutipswich.com/highlights/the-waterfront
and in the classy shopping areas, such as The Saints
https://allaboutipswich.com/blog/2020/indie-shops

The town is worth a visit in its own right for a weekend, or a few days, but it really comes into its own as a great base for discovering East Anglia over a week or two.

[Redhelen72]

Noooooooooo

[naomi24]

One of the nicest restaurants I’ve come across in the UK is in Ipswich - on a boat moored on the waterfront.

[davebro]

definitely - everyone should go to Ipswich this summer (it will ease the traffic problems at Dover.

[wolf63]

My baby brother is in Nottingham, which is far enough south for me. Due to covid I haven't seen him for a while.

[-SharonA-]

Ive been to Ipswich as I had a friend living there. The only thing I can remember of that memorable time is the party I went to at Mildenhall base.
It was the party to end a parties!!! The town was non existent!.

[fraser]

been to ipswich a few times as a kid because my mum was from felixstowe, later on watching newcastle in the 80's and 90,s ,decent pubs.

[Paigntonian]

Yet another spoof. Tiresome.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Paigntonian:
Check my BBC link at 1916. The basis of the article is TRUE.

[Prudie]

I went to Ipswich once years ago when a student on a coach trip to a local brewery (would it have been Greene King??). My boyfriend at the time got so paralytic drunk he couldn't get on the coach back. After a few hours in some pub I had to pay for a taxi back to Colchester in the early hours. It cost £40 which at the time was a fortune.

[Barmaid]

No. Just no.

Bury St Edmunds (just up the road by about 20 miles) is far nicer. Or Framlingham. Or Lavenham. Just not Ipswich. Or Piswich as I lovingly call it.

I dislike the place immensely.

[Mozz71]

Ipswich is okay, but it's a nice central point to loads of other day trip destination: Norwich, Ely, King's Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft...

Plus the Norfolk Broads are absolutely gorgeous.

[Buenchico]

>>> on a coach trip to a local brewery (would it have been Greene King??)

Nope. They're in Bury St Edmunds. You almost certainly visited the Tolly Cobbold brewery. (

In my childhood days, there were 120 pubs in Ipswich, which was one pub for 1000 people, as the town's population was then 120,000. 116 of those pubs were owned by Tolly Cobbold and only sold their own beers. So the chances of anyone visiting any other brewery in the area in the 60s, 70s and 80s was effectively nil!

Things are a bit different these days though, as we've got 43 different breweries in the county!

[bednobs]

it's interesting how places you wouldnt expect are sometimes just lovely.
For example, i went to nottingham a few years ago for the archery contest, that was being held in the town centre over a few days.

I had a GREAT time, and nottingham was so much more interesting than expected

[ToraToraTora]

I've had some great nights in McGinty's!