Who doesn’t love a good fireworks display around bonfire night?

The Skegness Royal Hotel, South Parade Skegness, PE25 3EH (Tel: 01754 762301) hosts a free fireworks display on November the 5th 2009. Doors open 6:30PM (bar open) with the fireworks display starting 7:30PM.

It’s free to enter with the option to donate to local Rotarian charities.

Also includes children’s bouncy castle and sumo suits wrestling :) with hot food available.

Map of Skegness Royal Hotel

Skegness Fireworks Display Review

The Rotary Charity fireworks display at the Royal Hotel Skegness was well worth turning out for, lots of big firework explosions and plenty of them.

Quite a few people turned out on bonfire night despite the rain: started to pour it down 5 minutes after the first firework went up, typical English weather, but it didn’t ruin the night :-)

We really enjoyed it and would definitely go again, there was music playing outside of the hotel which was great while we were waiting for the fireworks to begin, but the music needed to be a little bit louder, when you’ve got hundreds of people nattering around you the music kind of got lost.

Inside the Hotel you could buy drinks from the bar and traditional bonfire food like hot dogs and we saw people with toffee apples. My hubby spotted the kids bouncy castle inside for the little ones. We didn’t go inside the Royal Hotel, so not sure about what else was happening in there, we turned up about 5 or 10 minutes before the fireworks went up, so didn’t get a chance to see inside the Royal Hotel, it is a beautiful building though.

It was a good night out and I’d recommend it if they do it again.

The fireworks were let off behind a tree line, we were a bit dubious at first about that, but when the fireworks went off we where happy to be proven wrong :-)

The trees actually added to the fireworks display, it gave it an interesting perspective we’d not experienced before. I only managed to get one good picture of the fireworks and I took loads of pictures (over 150)! Because of the rain none of them came out particularly well, (camera got wet and wouldn’t turn off for a few hours after either!).

If there’s another fireworks display at the Royal Hotel next year I’ll try to take better photographs. Fortunately the movies we took didn’t come out too bad, but the audio broke on the camera a few weeks back, so the sound is poor.

Bonfire Night Fireworks Display Video

The organisers had a few glitches caused by the rain, presumably the fireworks got wet and this caused a few moments of when we thought the fireworks display was over (these things happen).

All the fireworks where sky explosions which meant it didn’t matter where you stood, we got a good view. I hate it when some firework displays have on the floor fireworks, you don’t get to see them when you are too far back. The Rotary/ Royal Hotel didn’t make this mistake I’m happy to say.

The crowd was well behaved, there was a few numpties who were lighting sparklers in amongst the crowd! We just stepped away from them, I don’t know if the sparklers were bought there or the people had brought them with them?

The organisers (if they do this again) might want to consider selling them themselves to make some extra cash and having the sparklers used in a safe area. The crowd was well behaved in the most part I have been to displays where fireworks have been thrown into the crowd by those attending a firework display, I’m happy to say these types of immature people wasn’t at the Rotary firework display on Bonfire night.

It was a good family night out, firework displays are so important in a built up area like Skegness since so many people (like us) don’t have a suitable garden to safely organise a bonfire/fireworks display.

Our personal thanks to the Rotary Charity and The Royal Hotel in Skegness for organising this fireworks display.

Marie Law

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli’ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d (or by God’s mercy)
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. (Holla)
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!