Cheshire 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 Cheshire
Gullivers World
Warrington
Gullivers World A family theme park designed to cater for families with children between the age of two and thirteen. All its rides and attractions are designed to offer the whole family a full day out of fun and excitement.
Chester Zoo
Chester
Chester Zoo Chester Zoo offers a fun and stimulating day out for everyone, no matter what age or ability. As well as the 500 different species of animals and award-winning gardens, they also offer first class facilities that ensure your day out really is as enjoyable as possible.
Blue Planet Aquarium
Ellesmere Port
Blue Planet Aquarium Blue Planet Aquarium is Britain's Ultimate Underwater Adventure and features one of the world's largest underwater viewing tunnels. You can get right up close to huge sharks, graceful rays and hundreds of other amazing fish in fantastic surroundings. It's a great day out whatever the weather, and an experience you'll never forget!
Stockley Farm
Northwich
Stockley Farm Stockley Farm 'the hands on family day out whatever the weather!' Hop on the tractor and trailer down to the farm. Visit the baby animals and join in at bottle feed time to give the lambs and baby goats a bootle of milk! You can also watch the cows being milked and see the bird of prey displays held on selected days . There are fabulous Indoor and outdoor play areas and the Willow Barn Tearoom.
Cotebrook Shire Horse Centre
Cotebrook
Cotebrook Shire Horse Centre Set in 50 acres in the heart of the beautiful Cheshire countryside, Cotebrook Shire Horse Centre & Countryside Park offers everything for the perfect day out.
Palms Tropical Oasis
Nantwich
Palms Tropical Oasis Discover the enchanting world of a deep rainforest with a family of Meerkats, Poison Dart Frogs, Tarantula, Piranhas, our Coati brothers and a Caiman Crocodile Or explore Dazzling Tropical Plantlife.
National Waterways Museum
Ellesmere Port
National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port brings Britain's canal history back to life. Come and explore the exhibitions in the historic dock complex and experience life aboard our collection of canal and river craft.
Norton Priory Museum and Gardens
Runcorn
Norton Priory Museum and Gardens A safe and friendly place to explore history and get close to nature! Explore and enjoy as a family it's a museum, a garden, woodland, a nature haven, an art adventure and a peek into the past all rolled into one!
Northgate Arena
Chester
Northgate Arena has a beach type effect swimming pools which has small slides for the younger visitor and a full size flume for the more adventurous - plus loads more sport facilities. Great idea if you are looking for family days out in Cheshire.
Nantwich Outdoor Brine Pool
Nantwich
Nantwich Outdoor Brine Pool Warmed outdoor brine pool. The outdoor pool is open for the summer season on May 15th - 3rd October 2010. Also has indoor pool with teaching pool and cyber cafe.
Sandy Lane Aqua Park
Chester
Sandy Lane Aqua Park The Aqua Park includes 12 pieces of water equipment operated by sensory, touch pads. These are in place in the summer months and are replaced by play equipment in the winter period.
Ragamuffins
Chester
Ragamuffins Ragamuffins - If your youngsters are in need of letting off steam, why not bring them down to ragamuffins? We've got loads of space for them to run around, being the largest soft play area in the north west
Polar Palace
Winsford
Polar Palace Come and experience the Polar Adventure where there are 3 levels of amazing fun. Try the giant astra ski slide, play in the sports zone, whizz around the kiddicar track, crawl through the ice cavern or splash into the ball pools
Boogle's Barn
Malpas
Boogle's Barn Multi-level soft adventure play with giant Astra Slides and Helipad, Separate Toddlers area, Indoor electric go-karts (18months 12yrs), Creation Station pottery painting. Full day care, crèche and out of school club child care facilities. Boogle's Pit-stop café serving a wide selection of healthy meals, snacks and drinks. Themed parties and private party rooms.
Fun2B
Warrington
Fun2B Fun2b is just what parents have been looking for an exciting and adventurous activity centre for 0-11years(height limit 4ft 9), combining fantastic play facilities with an excellent, healthy eating café.
Antz in your Pantz
Timperley
Antz in your Pantz is a fantastic new and unique adventure playcentre and art room in Timperley, Altrincham.
Run Of The Mill Indoor Play Centre
Stockport
Run Of The Mill Indoor Play Centre The perfect place to visit if you care about cleanliness, great food and a safe, fun environment for the little ones! Our play areas are designed to stimulate, exercise and excite and there is something for all ages - from the tiniest tot up to 12!
Funky Monkeys Funky Town
Chester
Funky Monkeys Funky Town Funky Town is an amazing Indoor Adventure Play Centre for children. Three decks of fun, adventure and thrilling modular play.
Includes Play area for the under 3's and quiet toy/ reading area. Baby friendly centre, warming facilities, nappies and wipes available. Funky Disco room/cinema and Treetop Tucker cafe.
Tatton Park
Knutsford
Tatton Park is an impressive historic estate with four major attractions. Children can feed the goats at the Farm, get lost in the Garden maze, complete the Mansion quiz and discover the Tudor Old Hall. A fun adventure playground and 1,000 acre parkland provide space to run around! Great idea if you're looking for family days out in Cheshire.
Ghost Hunter Trail
Chester
Ghost Hunter Trail If you think, what on earth is this doing on a family daysout website, well some kids like ghosts and ghost stories, and some kids don't - you know your kids - so you decide - more details if you click the info button!
Showboats of Chester
Chester
Showboats of Chester Cruise along the beautiful River Dee,passing the sights of the historic City of Chester aboard our luxury boats, Lady Diana and Mark Twain.
Brookside Miniature Railway
Poynton
Brookside Miniature Railway Superb train ride for families and enthusiasts. Authentic detail in near half-mile circuit through the beautiful gardens of a large garden centre. Authentic GWR station, full-size signal box and museum of railway relics. Great place to go with the children if you are looking for family days out in Cheshire.
Halton Miniature Railway
Runcorn
Halton Miniature Railway Known throughout the world to all enthusiasts, this railway system is staffed by volunteers. It has a track gauge of 71/4 inches, and operates a passenger service every Sunday afternoon throughout the year in the Town Park, Stockham Lane, Runcorn. Great idea if you're looking for family days out in Cheshire.
Grosvenor Park Miniature Railway
Chester
Grosvenor Park Miniature Railway is a 7¼" gauge railway located in the beautiful surroundings of Chester's Grosvenor Park and is only a few minutes walk from the city centre. Fun for all the family and popular with young and old alike it has become one of Chester's top tourist attractions.
Crocky Trail
Chester
Crocky Trail - is an outdoor adventure trail one mile in length with loads of activities along the way, such as mazes, swings, slides, bridges, tunnels etc, though there is always a way around the more challenging obstacles. Great idea if you are looking for family days out in Cheshire.
Blakemere Craft Centre
Northwich
Blakemere Craft Centre 25 Craft Shops, craft activities include pottery, jewellery making, & variety of crafts inc sock puppet making, eye masks, etc, a children's playbarn, an aquatic & falconry centre with Bird of Prey Flying Displays (Easter - Sept), garden nursery shop, Supagolf 9 hole course ideal for all the family (kids from age 5), adventure play park & excellent restaurant & coffee shop serving homemade food.
Udder Farm Maize Maze
Cheshire
Udder Farm Maize Maze A giant maize maze cut out in the shape of a tractor, with 3 levels of difficulty within the same maze to allow you to exit after each stage. A large enclosed grass courtyard has fun activities for all ages to make this a day out to remember. Parties welcomed.
Apple Jacks Farm
Warrington
Apple Jacks Farm is the largest Rural Theme Park in Cheshire, Get lost in The Amazing Maize Maze in the summer or get scared at Spooky World in Halloween and Skate on ice at Apple Jacks Winter World. There are lots of outdoor attractions at Apple Jacks Farm for all the family. There is an outdoor Food Grill, shopping, Animals including Pig Racing.
Huntfun Chester Treasure Hunt
Chester
Huntfun Chester 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire can enjoy the great day out as well.
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