We recently went away for a long weekend and the wife suggested going to Centre Parks but I just couldn’t face it to be honest. I’ve always felt that holidays with kids should be for visiting new places and gaining new experiences. We go to the local leisure with it’s slide and waves every other week.
In the end I booked an apartment near Portmadoc instead which was a reasonable amount cheaper. 15 minute walk to a beach with lots of rock pools, 10 minutes in the other direction to a harbour for looking at boats or catching crabs as well as a station with lots of steam trains. Within half an hours drive there’s lots more beaches, mountain walks, castles, lakes to swim in, streams to dam, mines to go down, engine sheds and sadly not open when we went but definitely a tick for next time trampolining. Yes it’s a lot more work for the parents but then i think it’s worth for the experience that the kids get.
I also preferred the view to just looking at trees as well!
it has the perfect plan B for the kids if the weather is bad
Plan B is to wear waterproofs 🙂