Easily accessible attraction
4.5
4.5
Date of visit: August 2025
I am a carer or friend of a disabled person. I have experience of challenges around: accessing toilets, hearing and moving around.
I use or have experience of: changing places toilet, disabled toilet, hearing aid or cochlear implant, walking aid, wheelchair
Overall Rating
Excellent
This review is of the cafe, shop and toilet, not the Seabird Experience. The half star off is only because of the parking situation which is not the responsibility of the Seabird Centre.
Disabled Access In and Around
Excellent
There is a smooth sloping tarmac path up to the entrance (photo 2). The doors open automatically with a push button which (unlike many) has always been working when we have been there. Inside the shop and cafe are all level with a hard surface which is easy to wheel on. There is room to push a chair between the displays. The cafe has seating inside and out with lovely views of the Bass Rock and the East Beach in the town. There is space to move a wheelchair between the tables. Hot meals are served until quite late in the afternoon. I know there is a lift down to the actual Seabird Experience but we have not been there recently.
Parking & Transport
Average
Parking in North Berwick is notoriously difficult. As others have pointed out, there are three disabled spaces near the bottom of the path to the Centre but they are usually occupied. The official Seabird Centre car park is at the top of Quality Street beside the Lodge Grounds. There is also some on-street parking.
Accessible Toilets
Excellent
This is very clearly signposted, accessed through a door from the shop and down a corridor. There is room for a wheelchair user and assistant and horizontal rails on each side of the toilet- one drop down and one wall mounted. The red cord goes to the floor.
Staff
Excellent
All very helpful on a busy afternoon.
Additional Information
Immediately outside the entrance is an attractive little terrace with a number of seats around it. It's easy to wheel down to the harbour nearby where there are a lot of seats with armrests and back rests.
