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WhatToSee
Local discovery, built town by town

Find what's worth doing, wherever you are

Everything to see, do, eat and find, town by town. Not just our pick of 10. Everything.

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Live in Colchester now. More towns added regularly.

Where we cover

Towns on WhatToSee

Built properly, one town at a time, not thrown up everywhere at once.

Live now

Colchester

128 places · updated daily
Coming soon

Chelmsford

In progress
Coming soon

Ipswich

Not started
How it works

One database, four ways to find something

A

Explore Everything

The full directory. Every soft play, every park, every shop, not a curated 10.

B

Best & Ideas

Genuinely researched guides and listicles, from family days out to best bars for over-25s.

C

New & Coming Soon

Just opened, opening soon, just announced. The reason to come back.

D

What's On

Today, this weekend, half term. Permanent places and one-off events, together.

Live map of Colchester

Then, when you're actually there

Scan a QR code on a car park, the station, a shopfront, and the same map opens on your own phone. No app to install.

  • See exactly what's around you right now
  • Search "menswear" or "coffee" and get walking directions in seconds
  • Everything on the map is the same data behind the website
See the map in Colchester →
For local councils

Bring WhatToSee's map and directory to your town

A town-wide digital wayfinding and business-directory system, QR points across car parks, the station and the high street, backed by the same structured local database as the website. The map is the product, the website is the bonus.

See the full proposition →