With new attractions and improved all-weather facilities, Camel Creek Adventure Park is billed as one of Cornwall’s leading family days out. It’s a smaller theme park suitable, I think, for under 12s. While it’s not on the scale of parks such as Alton Towers, or Drayton Manor, there’s lots to do. We were there for a full six hours, and there was plenty to keep my children entertained.
Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire is about halfway between our home in Yorkshire, and our Easter destinations of Cadbury World and Drayton Manor, and so made a handy stop off point on our journey. It certainly was much prettier than the service station on the nearby M1, and had a lot more room to run around.
As a family of six, we can rarely find a hotel to suit our needs. We end up getting two standard rooms and have to sleep one adult and two children per room. Either that or upgrade to a very expensive suite.
Whenever we go away as a family, we tend to get a self-catering cottage, or we camp. But as much as we love camping, I don’t (and won’t) do it all year round. At Easter, the choice was between two rooms in a Travelodge on the side of the A1 in North Yorkshire, or to try a Youth Hostel from YHA. We decided it was time to give a youth hostel a go, and we are so glad that we did!
And in the blink of an eye, we’re halfway (or more) through the summer holidays. What have you been doing?
We’ve been pretty busy with a trip to Brussels to see the sights and to visit Mini-Europe. Back in the UK, we’ve mostly been hanging out at home, being bridesmaids at the wedding of the year, and prepping for some days coming up, including a trip to Harry Potter studio tours, and a camping trip to Devon. Continue reading
Want to visit all the EU countries in one morning? Well, I think we know that would be impossible. How about all of the EU countries in 1/25th scale? Introducing Mini-Europe, a model village with a difference. It is Brussels’ main tourist attraction, and for a travel sick, Europhilic, geography geek like me, it is wonderful! Continue reading
In July, we went to Brussels. We chose Brussels as it’s somewhere the 12 year old hadn’t been before, and it’s a short two hour Eurostar ride from London. Brussels isn’t that big – it’s not quite as big as London or Paris. It has a very cosmopolitan feel without too many of the big city problems. Even though our trip encompassed Belgian National Day, it wasn’t very busy and getting accommodation and around the city was easy. Continue reading
This post is part of our FREE Family Days out in Yorkshire series
The National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire is yet another brilliant FREE museum managed by the Science Museum Group. This one is dedicated to all things media and it’s a great place to go if you’re interested in TV, AV production, animation, and computing. Continue reading
It seems at the moment you can’t move for town trails.
We LOVE town trails. We’ve done the Fish Trail in Hull several times, and the guild heritage trail in Beverley.
Do you have a local town trail? Continue reading
Hard Rock Cafe are showing some great family films on selected Saturdays – Frozen, Minions, and the Lego Movie – and you can win tickets right here!
Hard Rock Cafe London and Pop Picturehouse present Minions on the 23rd July at 9am for a special breakfast time showing. You can watch the film, meet some *real Minions (*not real), and join in the photo opportunity. You will also be able to buy and eat your breakfast while you’re there. Continue reading
Annnnnnnnd……the summer holidays are here!
Well, mostly. I’ve got one off right now, and the others due to finish next Friday. When do your summer holidays begin?
I want to hear all about your July days out and adventures. Thank you to Kiddie Holidays for linking up last month. I hope to see more of you here this month, especially now school is out! Continue reading