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bedfordshire 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 bedfordshire
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Woburn Safari Park
Woburn
Woburn Safari Park Enjoy a Safari Adventure! Experience the thrill of being alongside rhino, lions, giraffe and more. The excitement continues with close encounters in walkthroughs with wallabies, squirrel monkeys and lemurs, indoor and outdoor playgrounds, trains, boats and keeper talks and demonstrations. All inclusive attractions and lots of fun all day long!
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Dunstable
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo Visit the new Wild Wild Whipsnade exhibit , get up close to some fo the biggest, rerest and most majestic animals alive – including elephants, tigers, lions, and 2,500 more! Great idea if you are looking for family days out in Bedfordshire.
RSPB Nature Reserve
Sandy
RSPB Nature Reserve This is the headquarters for the RSPB. The Lodge reserve has two nature trails (the heath trail and the quarry trail), which are 3.5 km long in total. Lots of events throughout the year - check the weblink for details.
Wild Britain
Bedford
Wild Britain You'll discover one wild day out at Wild Britain (formerly known as Bedford Butterfly Park)! Become a safari spotter in the butterfly jungle, follow the hedgehog play trail and get 'hands on' with creepy crawlies. Plus, cuddle rabbits and take home your own arty creations and so much more including brand new attractions for 2010!
Birds of Prey and Conservation Centre
Biggleswade
Birds of Prey and Conservation Centre One of the UK's Largest Bird of Prey Centres - with over 300 birds and displays throughout the day - ring for details or check their website (it isn't actually working at the moment though)
Woodside Animal Farm & Leisure Park
Luton
Woodside Animal Farm & Leisure Park With so many animals to see, feed and hold including llamas, pigs, rabbits, monkeys, flamingos and many reptiles as well as tractor rides, trampolines, helter skelter, teacup ride, electric tractors, crazy golf and a huge indoor play area.
Mead Open Farm
Billington
Mead Open Farm Voted Farm Attraction of the Year 2009, Mead Open Farm delivers hours of 'hands-on' animal fun and action packed play. Plus with all activities included in admission, it's also great value too! Great idea if you are looking for family days out in Bedfordshire.
Bedford Museum
Bedford
Bedford Museum The museum takes a look at the history of Bedfordshire down the ages looking at Natural and Social history
Stockwood Discovery Centre
Luton
Stockwood Discovery Centre With interactive display, variety of gardens, children play area, special events and activities, bee gallery and much more, it is a wonderful visitor attraction and museum. Collection highlights include the Wenlok Jug, the Shillington gold coin hoard and the Mossman collection – Britain's largest public collection of horse-drawn vehicles.
Oasis Beach Pool
Bedford
Oasis Beach Pool Water Flumes - Yellow Screamer and Flume of Doom sound good for a start, combine this with an outdoor pool, lazy river ride, wild waves, parent and toddler sessions - this is the aquatic place to be. Great idea for family days out in Bedfordshire.
Robinson Pool
Bedford
Robinson Pool Robinson Pool is Bedfordshire's premier swimming facility; home to Bedford's largest pool, and is situated in the stunning grounds of Bedford Park. Three pools; the main, 6-lane competition pool, the diving pool and a beginners teaching pool. The facility offers something for everybody, from 3 month old babies to senior citizens.
Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre
Leighton Buzzard
Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre is good for the family, it has a special pool where they can raise and lower the depth, so when they do swimming lessons they make it shallow for small kids, and deeper for bigger kids.
Ilkley Pool and Lido
Ilkley
Ilkley Pool and Lido Heated indoor and outdoor pools with other sporting opportunities on site to pre book. Lido open May to September.
Woburn Open Air Swimming Pool
Woburn
Woburn Open Air Swimming Pool Large outdoor pool often with elephants visible bathing on the other side of the wall in the safari park! Open from late May to September each year.
Wardown Swimming and Leisure Centre
Luton
Wardown Swimming and Leisure Centre Wardown Swimming and Leisure Centre offers Fun Time Splash with mats and slides, Inflatable and Slide Sessions, Diving Boards, Kidz Around Pool Parties, Holiday activities, and Free Swimming (for 16 or under and 60 or over).
Olympos Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill
Olympos Burgess Hill Fun pool with water sprays, waterfalls, rapids, tipping buckets and winding flumes. Pirate themed area for smaller kids, and an outside pool in summer.
Cafe Kidz
Biggleswade
Cafe Kidz We are a children's indoor soft play area, catering for 0 – 7 year olds. We offer an hour's play while mums, dads, grandparents, or childminders can watch their little ones in the comfort of our coffee shop and enjoy a freshly ground coffee and a luxury cake or muffin!
Snakes and Ladders
Dunstable
Snakes and Ladders Snakes and Ladders is a huge indoor playground filled to the brim with climbing frames, ball ponds, cargo nets and slides. A ride on the electric motor bikes is also not to be missed. Kids can really let off steam while parents relax in our comfortable café.
Toddler World
Dunstable
Toddler World Toddler World - Indoor play centre in Dunstable - ring for more details
Thurleigh Farm and Adventure Playground
Thurleigh
Thurleigh Farm and Adventure Playground An open farm with indoor and outdoor play areas. There is a wood, Maize Maze in season and a café. At weekends and during school holidays we run a schedule including tractor rides, animal feeding and play activities such as pony and fire engine rides, bungee trampolines and mini-quad bikes.
Go Bowling
Dunstable
Go Bowling Recently fully refurbished, it has 32 bowling lanes, a superb bar, an excellent cafe menu, amusement machines, pool tables, a pro shop and a children's party room. Great idea if you are looking for family days out in Bedfordshire.
Dunstable Leisure Centre
Dunstable
Dunstable Leisure Centre Leisure centre offering loads of facilities - worth checking the website
Go Ape! Woburn
Woburn
Go Ape! Woburn Think you, your friends and family can handle 3 hours of tree top adventure? Are you wild enough to climb 30ft up a rope ladder, Tarzan swing into a giant rope net then zip wire through trees, crawl through tunnels and tackle high wire rope bridges?
Leighton Buzzard Railway
Leighton Buzzard
Leighton Buzzard Railway A heritage steam railway and working museum, we offer a relaxing 70-minute return train ride, hauled in most cases by a historic steam locomotive. Discover our own fascinating history, dating back to the dark days of the First World War, and about the vanished world of narrow-gauge light railways.
The Shuttleworth Collection
Biggleswade
The Shuttleworth Collection Aircraft hangers chocablock with a massive collection of aeroplanes - loads of events going on all year - a must for the budding wright brothers in your house!!
The Kiln
Bedford
The Kiln - is all about having fun and relaxing whilst painting and creating individualised pottery. And the best bit is that IT IS EASY!
Newbridge Farm Park
Ledbury
Newbridge Farm Park Enjoy tractor rides, feed the pigs, horses and ponies, play with the rabbits, chill out in the picnic area or burn energy on the zip wire and climbing frames in this family run farm park. ONLY OPEN DURING THE SUMMER SCHOOL HOLIDAY: 26th July 31st August

Thanks for all the great places to go when visiting bedfordshire 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 bedfordshire can enjoy the great day out as well.

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