Substantial Family Leisure Park In East Sussex For Sale

Business description

Located on a large site in a prime seafront trading position in sought-after seaside resort town, the park is well established and promoted and aimed at pre-teen children and open all year. Wide range of indoor & outdoor attractions & rides and site includes a reception area, gift shop, indoor soft play & under 5's own area, fully equipped indoor cafe, further beachfront cafe & further kiosk and newly improved aqua park. It is one of the towns major attractions and also very popular for birthday parties. High turnover, extensive investment in inventory of rides & equipment and favourable long lease with reasonable rent. Run by owners and both full and part-time staff. Available £675,000 or £425,000 excluding major rides.

Property information

Property:

Leasehold

Lease terms:

We understand that the site is leased from the Borough Council and that the lease has approximately 28 years remaining.

Location:

This superb well established business is very well known and regarded and is located in a prime seafront trading position in a sought-after seaside resort town in East Sussex, and occupies a site of approximately 3½ acres (un-measured) directly adjacent to the main promenade, beach and next to a large capacity Council Pay and Display car park.

Premises details:

The park occupies a substantial site of approximately 3½ acres (un-measured) and includes a wide range of both outdoor and indoor attractions aimed specifically at pre-teen aged children. It has a substantial purpose-built large eye-catching main entrance from the car park that leads to the large brightly decorated reception area with open-plan payment desks and entry turn styles and through the gift-retail shop into the park itself.

The park is set up so that it has an open-plan entrance from the beach promenade, that allows people to come into the park, but rides are controlled by wrist bands and tokens that are available from the main reception. They are pushchair friendly with baby changing facilities, public toilets and disabled access.

Inside there is a very large indoor soft play area with purpose built climbing frames, slides, an aerial runway, giant balls and some 50,000 play balls and much more, and if it gets too much for the under fives they have their own area of slides, ball pool and sounds.

There is also an amusement arcade with various token operated machines, a fully equipped café serving Costa Coffee complete with a fully equipped stainless steel commercial kitchen, plus both Ladies & Gents Toilets, Store Rooms and small Control Office all well organised to oversee activities and complete with fitted desk units, computer system, CCTV system and safe, etc.

Outside a further wide range of activities includes Digger Land, Crazy Golf, various rides including Tea-Cups, Pebbles Outside Café which fronts the promenade and again is a fully self-contained and equipped coffee shop/ice cream parlour and the new aqua splash water park offering multiple slides, tilting buckets, interactive play panels, sprinkle showers, snake tunnels & more, providing great family fun for both children & adults!

The park also has another kiosk unit, dodgems (bumper cars), various other appropriate rides and attractions and is well fenced and organised and we understand has recently been granted certain development rights with a lawful planning certificate recently issued that allows the owners of the park to add any other ride up to 25metres in height without the need for further planning permission.

Business Operation

Reasons for selling:

sale so vendors can move closer to family

Trading hours:

Trading from 10.00am to 6.00pm in the Winter and as late as 8.00pm in the summer,

Employees:

The business is run by two owners and a complement of both full and part time staff, with up to 30 employed during the Summer and 6 during the quietest period, when the outside rides are closed from November to Easter each year.

Years established:

7