Grampian is a great place to have a day out with the kids. Below we've tried to list as many attractions as we can to make it easy for you to find fun places to visit - we hope you find our website useful - and easy to use. Do you know of any other great
places to go that we may have missed? If so, it would be really nice if you could you get in touch, so that other kids can enjoy the day out as well - thanks a lot - have fun!
Family Days Out in Grampian
Storybook Glen
Aberdeen
Storybook Glen See more than 100 of your favourite nursery rhyme and fairytale characters. Enjoy exquisite flowers and plants, majestic trees, secret waterfalls, exotic animals and fairytale houses and eat at the self-service restaurant which offers healthy food.
Codonas Amusement Park
Aberdeen
Codonas Amusement Park Three entertainment centres: Codonas Amusement Park, Sunset Boulevard and Miami Beach with LOADS of things to do
Macduff Marine Aquarium
Macduff
Macduff Marine Aquarium features marine life from the Moray Firth in a variety of exciting and innovative exhibits. Visitors come face to face with hundreds of native fish and invertebrates normally only seen by SCUBA divers who brave the chilly waters of the North Sea.
Willows Animal Sanctuary
Fraserburgh
Willows Animal Sanctuary Willows Animal Sanctuary is dedicated to the care of abandoned and ill-treated domestic and farm animals. It looks after over 200 animals including more than 60 horses, ponies and donkeys as well as 100 sheep, goats, cows and pigs and approximately 60 cats and many rabbits, poultry and reptiles.
Grampian Transport Museum
Alford
Grampian Transport Museum A treasure house of transport history with lots to see and do.
Archaeolink Prehistory Park
Insch
Archaeolink Prehistory Park Travel 10,000 years in one day from the Mesolithic to a Roman Marching Camp, with indoor and outdoor exhibitions, featuring hands on activities, workshops and guided tours everyday, Archaeolink is a dynamic historical experience for all the family.
Satrosphere Science Centre
Aberdeen
Satrosphere Science Centre is full of exciting exhibits, science shows, workshops and special events. Fun for all the family and everyone who loves to explore and experiment!
Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool
Arberdeenshire
Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool Olympic-size, heated seawater Pool and Lido open daily late May early September
Rambos Kids Adventureland
Aberdeen
Rambos Kids Adventureland slides, rope climbs, ball ponds, soft ball shooters and a bouncy area that will entertain the kids for hours and hours
Bogie Dragon
Huntly
Bogie Dragon Within the activity centre is a large, purpose built adventure castle. It is a fun packed soft play themed area
Hoodles Play Barn
Oldmeldrum
Hoodles Play Barn The centre piece of the Play Barn facility is our extensive soft play area - the only one of its type in the area.
KC Kangaroos Play Centre
Aberdeen
KC Kangaroos Play Centre There is a exciting area for children, which includes scramble net rope ladders, a variety of three different slides and a large deep ball pool and other challenging aspects to entertain and challenge the children.
Dizzy Rascals Indoor Playcentre
Laurencekirk
Dizzy Rascals Indoor Playcentre Soft play, with slides, ball pools and a massive soft ball 5-a-side football zone. New for 2006-ball cannons, trampoline and an extended play frame
Boomerangs Adventure Play
Fraserburgh
Boomerangs Adventure Play kids indoor playcentre - waiting for more details
Brewster Bear Fun Factory
Portlethen
Brewster Bear Fun Factory Kids play centre attached to brewsters food chain - i find they are always worth a visit if the weather is a bit grotty and the kids need a runaround - and you can get lunch too!
Ton's o' Fun
Turriff
Ton's o' Fun a big children's adventure play centre - a large, specially designed play structure in an enormous purpose-built facility we are making inroads into safe, challenging and fun adventure-play for children up to 145cm in height
Craigievar Castle
Alford
Craigievar Castle Built in the early 17th century by Master William Forbes, his family lived in the castle for 350 years. Extensive parklands, woodland walks with beautiful views.
Balmoral Castle
Ballater
Balmoral Castle Set amongst the magnificent scenery of Royal Deeside, in the shadows of Lochnagar is the Balmoral Estate.
Purchased by Queen Victoria in 1848, the Estate has been the Scottish Home of the British Royal Family ever since.
Tolquhon Castle
Aberdeenshire
Tolquhon Castle Tolquhon Castle is for the most part a comfortable 16th century mansion with an earlier 15th century tower in one corner. The old tower, known as the Preston Tower, was built by the castle's original owners, the Preston family. In 1420 it passed by marriage to the Forbes family.
Cawdor Castle
Nairn
Cawdor Castle As well as the Shakesperian Macbeth castle there are also three gardens, the Cawdor Big Wood, and a 9-hole 3 par golf course
Crathes Castle Garden and Estate
Aberdeen
Crathes Castle Garden and Estate One of the most beautiful and best preserved castles in Scotland occupied by the Burnetts of Leys for over 350 years and set against a magnificent garden with its world-renowned June border. Kids can also take part in quizzes, family trails, hands-on activities and play in the adventure playground.
Beach Leisure Centre
Aberdeen
Beach Leisure Centre The freeform leisure pool has fantastic water features including rapids and a wave machine so you won't fail but have a whale of a time
The Old Royal Station
Ballater
The Old Royal Station At the centre of Ballater is a beautiful wooden building that was formerly the royal railway station. Recently restored, it now houses an exhibition, the Tourist Information Centre, a restaurant and shops.
Alford Valley Railway
Alford
Alford Valley Railway Scotlands first 2ft Narrow Gauge passenger railway, running a half-hourly service from Alford to Haughton Park.
The Ceramic Experience
Aberdeen
The Ceramic Experience At the studio, customers are supplied with everything from stamps and stencils to aprons, brushes, tiles and paint, all of which are non-toxic and food safe.
Huntfun Aberdeen Treasure Hunt
Aberdeen
Huntfun Aberdeen Treasure Hunt A great fun way to explore in your own town or when visiting somewhere new. Fun for all the family and something a bit different getting everyone out and about in the fresh air for a few hours.
Thanks for all the great places to go when visiting Grampian you keep sending in.
Now the summer holidays are upon us, we're trying to find as many things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor soft playcentres, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, castles, railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, ten pin bowling alleys, steam railways and other tourist attractions.
Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for the best places to take their classes on school journeys.
So, if you've been for great days out with the kids, or a school trip, which isn't listed above, just send in an email and we'll add it on so people on holidays and all the other children in Grampian can enjoy the great day out as well.
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