Clipper Cabriolet 1C - Open Top Buses
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Ride around the fun and excitement of Great Yarmouth's Golden Mile, or enjoy the east coast scenery of wide golden sands and rolling dunes on board our Clipper Cabriolet open top buses.
The 2025 season begins on Saturday 3rd May.
Our popular open top buses run along Great Yarmouth seafront from Seashore Holiday Park to the Pleasure Beach all day, every day throughout the Spring and Summer, and into the evenings during the summer holidays for an unrivalled ride through the illuminations as the sun goes down. Calling at the key seafront attractions of Joyland, the Britannia Pier, Pirates Cove adventure golf, the Marina Centre, the Sealife Centre, Wellington Pier, Merrivale Model Village and the Big Wheel as well as many more, there's no better way to travel around the resort.
And Clipper Cabriolet buses continue all along the East Norfolk coast to Caister-on-Sea (with it's wide sandy beach, lifeboat station and amazing fish and chips), then the holiday camps and resorts of Scratby and California and onto the seaside village of Hemsby with it's amusements, cafes and adventure golf as well as a great family-friendly beach.
Views from the top deck are amazing, and with our fantastic value day tickets you can hop on and off the bus as many times as you want, with the best savings for families and groups.
Click here to download your Clipper Cabriolet 1C Timetable [PDF] from 3rd May 2025
Some great value Clipper Cabriolet fares...
Travel all day along Great Yarmouth Seafront between Seashore and Pleasure Beach, and all the way up to Caister for just £6 for an adult or £4.80 age 5-19 and up to five people (*max of 2 adults aged 20+) can travel together for just £8.50 with our great value High5 group* ticket. Alternatively, single journeys anywhere between Caister and all along the seafront are capped at just £1.50 each way. Simply hop on board and pay the driver for your ticket with your contactless card or device.
To get to Great Yarmouth from further along the coast, or to travel up the coast from the seafront to visit all of the other great destinations along the way you'll need a Coastal Zone ticket. At just £8 Adult, £6.50 age 5-19 and £12 for a group, you can buy these on the bus, or in advance on the First Bus App. You can even buy a weekly group ticket for just £45 which is perfect if you're on holiday in the area!
As well as unlimited travel on our open top buses, you can also use these on all of our other buses all along the coast including our other frequent Coastal Clipper buses that also serve Caister-on-Sea, Scratby (1A) and Hemsby. They offer late evening departures from Great Yarmouth Market Gates bus station too, heading north towards Hemsby at 1905 and 2100 every day of the week, and at 2245 as an extended service 8.
Find more information on our main Coastal Clipper 1|1A buses here.
As well as all of these great ticket offers, you can jump on our open top buses with all of our tickets for a day, week or longer that are valid in any of the Great Yarmouth Town Zone (as far as Caister-on-Sea), the Coastal Zone or even our Explorer Zone which includes all buses all along the east coast, plus up to and all around Norwich.
*Our High5 tickets are great value for whenever you're travelling in a couple, a family or a group. They give unlimited travel for a whole day for up to 5 people (with maximum of two adults age 20+) and offer great savings on individual single or day tickets.
Get all along the east coast with a Coastal zone ticket
Valid on all our buses along the east coast and around Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Coastal zone tickets can also be used on our X1|X11, X2|X21|X22 and 99A buses inland as far as Acle, Beccles or Bungay. Check out our zone maps to see how far your ticket will take you, and check out all our prices below.
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Week |
10-trip |
Month |
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| Adult | £8 | £22.50 | £30 | £80 | ||
| Young Person | £6.50 | £17 | £24 | £60 | ||
| High5 Group* | £12 | £45 available from 3/5/25 to 20/9/25 only |
Have you tried our Norwich Sightseer? Open-top buses also operate around the Fine City all throughout the summer. Click here to head over to our dedicated Sightseer webpage.
