Footdee Beach

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Footdee Beach.  The Silver Darling offers amazing views of the Aberdeen shoreline and it also offers a variety of locally-inspired gourmet dishes including lamb, burger, pasta, haggis, steak.  Goulash is a Hungarian restaurant that offers a variety of excellent Hungarian dishes including schnitzel, chicken paprikash, goulash, and Hungarian meatballs.  Maggie’s Grill is known for serving American-style soul food including Cajun-style fish fry, burger, salad, smoked wings, and Texas-style barbecue dishes.  Cartoos Grill House & Desserts is known for serving excellent burgers and steak, along with a variety of Mediterranean and South Asian-inspired dishes including falafel, borek, kofta, and biryani.  The Manchurian is known for serving a variety of excellent Chinese-inspired dishes including chow mein, Peking duck, dim-sum, and spring rolls.  If you are looking for another good and affordable restaurant near the beach, Inversnecky Cafe offers a variety of excellent dishes including sausages, bacon rolls, fish-and-chips, and coronation chicken.

If you are looking for a hotel near Footdee Beach, there are many great nearby options.  The 4-Star Sandman Signature Aberdeen Hotel & Spa offers many amenities including a gym, a spa, a restaurant, and a lounge.  Another great upscale hotel is the 4-Star Mercure Aberdeen Caledonian Hotel that offers many amenities including a bistro, a bar with a lounge, and complimentary breakfast.  Another great upscale hotel is the 3.5-Star Residence Inn Aberdeen that offers many amenities including a gym, a store, and a lounge bar.  A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star Ibis Aberdeen Centre that offers many amenities including a restaurant and a bar.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby hotel, the 3-Star Aberdeen Douglas Hotel offers many amenities including a restaurant and a bar.

Although Footdee Beach Aberdeen does not have lifeguards, the beach and the area around it offer many other amenities including a nearby promenade, walking paths, grassy lawns, benches, picnic areas, restrooms, watersports equipment rental facilities, and street snack vendors.

Dogs are not allowed in some portions of Footdee Beach on a seasonal basis – these portions are marked by local authorities using signs and they are clearly visible on the beach.

Footdee Beach offers many fun activities including sunbathing, beachcombing, swimming, kitesurfing, windsurfing, biking, roller-skating, fishing, paddleboarding, surfing, boating, jet-skiing, surf-skiing, water-skiing, kayaking, canoeing, and wildlife watching.  This beach is popular with surfers because it offers fun and manageable surfing waves.

If you plan to swim, kayak, or canoe here, we recommend being careful because the water here is known to have unpredictable rip currents and dangerous waves.  If you like taking pictures with beautiful views, Footdee Beach offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the North Sea and the Aberdeen shoreline.

If you like biking and roller-skating, the promenade near the beach offers a fun biking and skating experience.  In addition, there are multiple historic structures near the beach that you can explore including an old church named the Footdee Mission Hall, a memorial dedicated to local soldiers, and an old navigation tower.

Footdee Beach does not offer wheelchair access to visitors with disabilities.

Getting to Footdee Beach is easy – this beach is easily accessible from Aberdeen’s City Center area through a road named Beach Boulevard.

There are many free street parking spaces here – in case these spaces get filled up, you can park at the free parking lot of a nearby amusement park named Queens Links Leisure Park.  Once you park here, you can easily reach the beach through multiple stairways.

We recommend visiting this beach during low tide because at high tide parts of this beach can get waterlogged.  We recommend visiting this beach early during summers because it can get crowded during this time – the best time to visit Footdee Beach to avoid crowds is either during late spring or early summers.

The name of the beach and the neighborhood – Footdee – is known to have different origins – some say that it is derived from the phrase “foot of the River Dee,” while others believe that the name is derived from the name of a local saint called Fittick.  In addition, the neighborhood of Footdee was previously a small fishing village and it has many beautiful old cottages – you can still see these cottages and they are part of a local heritage conservation area.

There are many attractions near Footdee Beach and there are many things to do in Aberdeen coastal village of Fotdee.  Duthie Park is a 44-acre recreational park that has interesting Victorian-style features including fountains, a band stand, and boating ponds.  It also has a building with indoor plant collections, public artworks, and botanical gardens and it also hosts a concert series in December.  Codona’s Amusement Park is an amusement park that was established in 1970 and it offers many fun things to explore including a ferris wheel, a roller coaster, cups-and-saucers, a bowling center, a play area for kids, a simulated dinosaur safari, and a go-karting track.  Donmouth Local Nature Reserve is a nature reserve that offers multiple beaches including South Donmouth Beach and North Donmouth Beach and it also offers an interesting way to explore the interesting estuary of a river called Don – there is a wildlife observation area here which is an amazing bird watching site.  Aberdeen Maritime Museum is a museum that offers a unique insight into Aberdeen’s interesting maritime history and local maritime industries including fishing, shipbuilding, trading, and offshore energy.  It has many interesting exhibitions including remains of famous locally-made ships, old photos, lens from a lighthouse, and models of ships and oil platforms.  If you are looking for another attraction near this beach, Aberdeen Science Center is a science center that has a variety of interesting hands-on exhibits on the life sciences – it also hosts a variety of interesting workshops and shows.