Category Archives: teens

29May/14

Jorvik Viking Centre, York, North Yorkshire

May 29, 2014entrance fee, museum, teenagers, teens, Yorkshire North, young childrenKidsDaysOutReviews

Jorvik Viking Centre tells the story of the Viking history of York, and is somewhere we visited a couple of times as children. Superbreak gave us some tickets so we could take our own children and see what had changed in the last twenty or so years. 

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18Apr/14

Harewood House, Leeds, West Yorkshire

April 18, 2014entrance fee, Stately home and gardens, teenagers, teens, Yorkshire West, young childrenKidsDaysOutReviews

Harewood House near Leeds is an 18th Century stately home and gardens, which are open to the public. It is one of Yorkshire’s leading attractions, and is a lovely day out for families.

Harewood House is associated with many notables, including Capability Brown, and the artist JMW Turner. It will be the starting point, Grand Depart, for Le Tour (The Tour de France) in Summer 2014. 

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12Apr/14

The Maritime Museum, Hull, East Yorkshire

April 12, 2014free, museum, teenagers, teens, Yorkshire East, young childrenKidsDaysOutReviews

The Maritime Museum (known locally as the Town Dock Museum) is one of Hull’s free city-centre museums. It is a collection of all things nautical, particularly local history, and things connected to trawling and whaling. It is in one of Hull’s most famous buildings – the 19th century Docks offices buildings which were used, amongst other things, to administer migration from Eastern Europe to the Americas. If you love boats, local history, and sea-faring adventure, this museum is pretty good.

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21Oct/13

The York Dungeon, York, North Yorkshire

October 21, 2013entrance fee, museum, teenagers, teens, Yorkshire NorthKidsDaysOutReviews

At The York Dungeon throughout Halloween 2013, accompanied children in spooky fancy dress get free entrance. (Please check the website for more details), so when we were given some adult tickets to try them out, we whacked some costumes on the kids and headed off!

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04Sep/13

Brimham Rocks, North Yorkshire

September 4, 2013free, park, teenagers, teens, toddlers, Yorkshire North, young childrenKidsDaysOutReviews

This post is part of our FREE Family Days out in Yorkshire series

Brimham Rocks is a unique place in North Yorkshire. It is located on a high area of moorland north of Harrogate. It is owned by the National Trust and is a free attraction (you pay £5 per car for all day parking). 

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28Aug/13

York’s Chocolate Story, York, North Yorkshire

August 28, 2013entrance fee, museum, teenagers, teens, Yorkshire North, young childrenKidsDaysOutReviews

 York’s Chocolate Story is an indoor attraction in York City Centre. It is located on Kings Square which is at one end of The Shambles, towards the imposing York Minster.

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22Aug/13

Beamish, County Durham

August 22, 2013Durham, entrance fee, museum, teenagers, teens, young childrenKidsDaysOutReviews

Beamish Museum is a huge open air museum just north of Durham in County Durham. It’s about fifteen years since I last went and it’s over a two-hour drive from our house, but we made a massive effort to get up and visit it because I remember it being such a good day out and I was sure our two older girls would love it. We left the younger children with grandparents and spent the day at Beamish.

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11Aug/13

Amazonia, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

August 11, 2013entrance fee, Norfolk, teenagers, teens, young children, Zoo and animalsKidsDaysOutReviews

Amazonia is a small visitor attraction on the promenade in Great Yarmouth. It is home to a variety of reptiles and similar critters.

 

It cost us £18 to get in (family ticket for 2 adults and 2 children – under 3s are free).

 

It is all one level and fairly easy to navigate.

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06Aug/13

Pleasurewood Hills, Lowestoft, Suffolk

August 6, 2013entrance fee, Suffolk, teenagers, teens, theme park, toddlers, young childrenKidsDaysOutReviews

We were invited to go and try out the new look Pleasurewood Hills and we were very impressed. Pleasurewood Hills has been a popular family attraction in Suffolk for 30 years and has recently had a refurbishment programme to make the park as good as in its hey-day.

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27Jul/13

Beaulieu National Motor Museum, Brockenhurst, Hampshire

July 27, 2013entrance fee, Hampshire, museum, teenagers, teens, young childrenKidsDaysOutReviews

The Beaulieu Estate, set in the beautiful surroundings of the New Forest, was first opened to the public in 1952. Originally it was the Palace House that welcomed visitors, until a small display of veteran cars outgrew the family home and led to the creation of a separate motor museum. Today at Beaulieu Museum there is lots to see – the Palace House and Gardens, the historic site of Beaulieu Abbey along with a museum, and of course the National Motor Museum which houses several motoring themed exhibitions. 

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