Is Ramsgate Worth Visiting Or Should You Avoid It? (Ramsgate Kent)
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Is Ramsgate worth visiting this summer or is this Kent seaside town one to avoid? Well we went to explore and find out for ourselves.
Join us as we spend a beautiful sunny day on the Kent coast discovering what Ramsgate has to offer. From the Viking coastal path and the Royal Harbour to the golden sandy beach and standard seafood offerings of the British seaside.
We find some true hidden gems and soak up all the atmosphere of a summer day by the sea but we also leave feeling a little disappointed with some parts of the town...
📍Filmed on location in Ramsgate, Kent
00:00 Is Ramsgate Worth Visiting?
01:55 Exploring Ramsgate Seafront, Beach & Royal Harbour
03:52 Fresh Seafood In Ramsgate, Kent
05:38 Ramsgate Pier & Harbour
07:25 Madeira Walk & Waterfall In Ramsgate, Kent
10:26 Walking Along Ramsgate Seafront In Kent
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Ramsgate looks like a nice place to visit. The quaint streets and stores look interesting. Can’t wait to see the tunnels.
ive lived in ramsgate for 6years and ive loved every second of it..i love the sandy beaches and the view of deal,sandwich and france(on a veryy sunny day) im glad to see that people are documenting the prettiness of ramsgate. its because of amazing people like you that make ramsgate amazing
Thank you & thank you for taking the time to watch & comment 😊 we can’t wait to revisit
Great video lads. I moved to Ramsgate over three years ago. Love it. The waterfall is now back up and running so do pay us another visit!
Hi Malcolm, thank you for watching we’re glad you enjoyed it! We will definitely have to pop by and see the waterfall even if it’s on our way back home from somewhere else. Thanks for letting us know!
I had a three day holiday in Canterbury this week and visited Ramsgate, with hindsight I should have stayed in Ramsgate and done Canterbury as a day trip. Also visited Margate which didn't have as much character. Besides the biggest Wetherspoon it has two excellent micro pubs which I won't name in case you think I'm connected with them and trying to advertise. Ramsgate also easy on your legs: excellent bus 'The Loop' which runs every 10 minutes from the railway station to the harbour.
Ramsgate brings back so many happy childhood memories.
Use to holiday in Ramsgate in the 1970's
Great to see that after so many years Ramsgate are finally renovating the old
Fun fair/ Amusement complex with luxury new apartments.
It had been sitting empty for years.
👍👍😁
We were just down there again last week and it is definitely all taking shape. Can’t wait to see the restaurants that will be going in too!
Ramsgate is the only thing I have missed about the UK. l will return just to see Ramsgate again
I have only ever driven through Ramsgate, but you found some beautiful areas, the flowers at the top were so pretty. What a lovely day you had as well. I thought the green water and none working waterfall let the area down, shame I am sure with clean water and the waterfall working it must look spectacular. Glad you had such a good day. Great vlog as usual.
It did let it down but fingers crossed they fix it 🙂
Ramsgate looks really lovely.
I would love to love by the seaside.
That seagull definitely had its eyes on your lunch.
What a shame about the waterfall.
It looks like you had a lovely day out xx
Maybe next time we visit the waterfall will work 😂
We used to holiday when i was young it would have been early 70's it's still looks good and the boating pool was there back then glad it's still there.
Spent many a weekend at Ramsgate as a child, unforgettable memories a truly stunning town, with hidden secrets aswell... 😉
I lived in ramsgate near that ‘waterfall’ it’s beautiful even in the winter I remember one year walking the dog on the beach a few days before Christmas. I’m sure I remember people filling the waterfall with bubbles or something. Jason is correct the funfair used to be where those new apartments are. There also used to be years and years ago an amusements owned by the guy who had rotunda think his name was something like jimmy godden he was my landlord when I first moved out to dover lol
Pleasurama was the amazing permanent funfair. Ramsgate was a delight in the 70s. Still a great place to visit.
I live in ramsgate near the boating pool. it has a nice bar area that serves gd pizza. the weatherspoons is actually alright to be fair. I love ramsgate actual seafront, the town centre tho....I don't go at night
We will have to revisit and try the pizza 🍕
Love Ramsgate. Visit often. I might have a photo of the waterfall if your interested and I can find it. The town is a bit tired but there's lots of work going on trying to regenerate it. Not sure if architecture is your thing but there are some beautiful squares in Ramsgate with regency houses. Liverpool Lawn, Vale square and Spencer square. All worth a look but there is a bust of Vincent Van Gogh in Spence square where he lived for a short time. Also Grange house which can be visited by appointment where Augustus Pugin lived. He was a famous architect who was involved with rebuilding the Palace of Westminster after a fire in 1847. Near there is a famous church which is worth s visit (sorry can't remember the name off the top of my head). Think Christians first landed on the Thanet coast. Where you parked your car if you walk the other way to Pegwell Bay there are two beautiful pubs right on the cliffs overlooking the sea. If you walk a little further there is a Viking ship! Finally a little out of the town is Ellington park. About a 10 minute walk but it's beautiful. As you can see I love this place!!
Hi Andrew, thanks for taking the time to share all of that with us. We will definitely be back in Ramsgate at some point so we will be sure to check some of them out. We love to hear people passionate about places. We actually visited pegwell bay last year and the Viking ship. We love it around there!
My Grandparents Lived right up by those Gardens in fact in one shot you can see the corner building this was also when the rock candy factory was still open and you could smell it was sooo good,use to watch the Ramsgate Ferries sail out from up there and cargo ship going pass.
Those steps where ones I always used to get down to the Arcade that use to be in that pavilion. And yes that is where the Fun Fair use to be with also a huge Arcade and a swimming pool along that way. Also can't believe that boating pool is still there this brought back so many memory's thanks :) I love Ramsgate but now live in the USA but if we ever go back this has always been the place I would like to live.
Oh Fun fact my Dad and his friends when they where kids put a load of soap in that water fall thing and had soap suds ruling down the hill lol
Always good to hear when our videos invoke memories of times gone by. Thank you for sharing 😊
Ramsgate did have a fun fair almost certain it was called Merrie England. Brought back some memories of when I lived there, sea front looks so much nicer now.
I love you guys great tour brilliantly done
Thank you Fred, glad you enjoyed the video. If there’s anywhere else you’d like to see us visit please let us know 😊
Fab vlog guys ….. Ramsgate looks so well looked after , the fountain area is beautiful.
Can’t wait for your California vlogs ❤️❤️x
Can’t wait to share them with you! We have so much planned ☀️
Have recently discovered your channel, really enjoy watching them and catching up on previous videos too
Welcome 👋 thank you so much & hope you enjoy the videos we’ve got coming up 😜
I was born and brought up in Ramsgate. I have to say it is a mere shadow of what it was back in the 60's, and went slowly downhill from then on. However, I do think it's hit the bottom and is now slowly but surely coming back up in the World, from the Harbour area outwards, after many decades of mismanagement some great local people and entrepreneurs are doing some amazing things. It has a fascinating history and this video is showing it at its best, a little bit emotional tbh, many memories, could post so much about the places on this video. Thankyou chaps for a great video and giving the old place a richly deserved pat on the back 👍
Glad we could invoke some happy memories. Everywhere has its good and bad points and Ramsgate has definitely struggled in recent times but we agree it’s on the way up again!
It seems the waterfall in Ramsgate has had a rough few years,. On several occasions, over the past few years, several bottles of soap were emptied into the water and chaos bubbled up. Then last year, it was determined that other repairs were needed. But, apparently the falls were home to endangered newts, so work had to wait until colder weather. Not sure if they are still off due to newts, but it also seems financial issues may be an on-going problem. I write from Ithaca, NY, so on-line info may not be providing full picture.
It does sure sound it - thanks for the info 🙂
i got to say i live in ramsgate and it is amaizing
Fab! Going to Broadstairs tomorrow, Reculver and Faversham Stone Chapel on the way back. May have to visit Ramsgate too!
Have an amazing time! 🤩✨
Ramsgate is lovely in the sunshine with the sandy beach and a nice ice cream. Love the seafood from the stall that you got yours from. Eating on the verandah at the Wetherspoons is nice, but be prepared the seagulls watch your every move hoping for a piece of your dinner 😂
Seafood was delicious 🤤 haha maybe we can all go at some point 😄
Another place I lived and remember fondly.
I lived in Broadstairs so use to part of my run. You guys should cover the shell grotto at Margate.
It’s like your reading our minds 😂 this is something we are also doing soon 🤣
@@JJExtra hahaha! Brilliant! Your love it! 😆😂
I'll look forward to the upload. 👌
😀 Traveling makes you happier than buying stuff.
That metal thing I think it’s a world war 2 single person air raid shelter.
I literally live here like yes I have seen the boating pool yes I have seen that very impressive hand sculpture. Mind you me and my family go to the boating pool quite a lot (when it is a nice day of course and I'm not stuck I a bloody prison/school) But I love Ramsgate there is no other place like it! 😊
Thumbs up guys 👍
I remember having a holiday there in a guest house when I was about 6 or 7 [mid 1960s], and a year later one in nearby Cliftonville. During my later childhood, adolescence and young adulthood Thanet was a frequent summer day trip destination although did not have another holiday there until 2016.
Another thing, I remember a large family restaurant in the north part of the seafront, called Harrisons, I think. It had been demolished before my 2016 visit.
Wow Josh love the hair
Thank you 😊
Had a pub there called the long bar
The gelato shop is still coming 😂😂
Hello, right im moving to Kent 😁😁, im jealous you have beaches, and cliffs and pretty little villages and 🌞🌞, im sure Scotland does too but i want a fancy apartment and a little beach hut. I will need to win the lottery
Scotland is more stunning so you win 😂
@@JJExtra well of course Scotland is more stunning its because i live there 😂😂
I went to visit Ramsgate last yr from Bristol for the 1st time ( IM A NORTHERNER from Manchester that moved to Bristol 18 yrs ago to be with my partner) to see his goddaughter and his friend who moved down there from London to run another pub ...! I loved the place and IF you didn't get to go in the Brasserie you should have done! The food was great (we went in on an afternoon) a TAD on the expensive side (and small portions like you would get in an ala cart restaurant or on a cruise ship) BUT well worth it! ...they don't give you a menu it's all chalked up on an old roller-style school chalkboard so you have to take a pic of it so that when you sit down you can remember what they are serving that day! Maderia walk and the gardens are lovely the water fall is victorian and MAN made not real rocks! we passed it every morning coming from our hotel on victoria parade down to the harbour and sea front ....also worth a visit is the tunnels on the sea front that was originally a railway link / tunnel to the sea front and was then used as air raid shelters in the 2nd world war! the Station USED to be were those new sea front apartments that you filmed being built before that it was anidoor funfair amusment place till it burt down and was left as a vacant lot for yrs after
Hi Sean, thanks for sharing your memories of Ramsgate. We love to hear when our videos remind people of times gone by and childhood memories. Thanks for the recommendation of the brasserie too, we will definitely check it out some time.
I hope someday you guys can head to Seattle for the first Starbucks. Are you guys going to explore into Scotland someday?
That would be great! Scotland is definitely on our list! Probably not this year now but possibly next year 😁
I was born in ramsgate it was pleasurama the arcade that was where the new buildings are😂
Are there any boats trips or even ferries?
I think the fun fair was called the merry England but I may be wrong
It was originally called “Merrie England” (spelt ie) but in the 60’s I think, it was renamed as Pleasurama - my close relatives had lived in Ramsgate all their lives and always called it Merrie England 😄
fair
up the rams
OI ! THANET COUNCIL. Reopen the toilets just off the high street,( some of us have weak bladders) and fix that bloody lift to the beach.......
Sadly the waterfall had a power issue for about a year ir two and then was fixed but the 'chine' rock has cracks according to a reliable source and that needs to be fixed!
pleasurama
Be careful with the seafood, courtesy of Southern water.
The fun fare was called Merry England.