hertfordshire 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 hertfordshire
Leisureworld
Hemel Hempstead
Leisureworld Tropical Indoor Water Theme Park Aquasplash - Silverblades - Ten Pin Bowling, Arcade Machines and Pool Tables - Hotshots - great idea if you are looking for family days out in Hertfordshire
Paradise Wildlife Park
Broxbourne
Paradise Wildlife Park This friendly family wildlife park with monkeys Tigers Lions and many other exotic animals offers other attractions including Adventure Golf, Gold Panning, Woodland Railway etc. Great fun for all the family.
Shepreth Wildlife Park
Royston
Shepreth Wildlife Park There are many different animals at Shepreth Wildlife Park just waiting to meet you. So come along and enjoy a great day out - and remember, your visit helps us to help the animals.
Farmyard Funworld
Watford
Farmyard Funworld Small Farmyard with a large selection of animals  many friendly and able to be handled. Feeding sessions.
Also Close Encounters sessions with snake, lizard spider etc.
Aldenham Country Park
Elstree
Aldenham Country Park Aldenham Country Park - rare breeds farm - children's adventure play area - 100 acre wood ( a recreation of all the features found in the Winnie the Pooh stories ) - 175 acres of woodland walks - sailing, fishing, meadows, reservoir, annual craft fairs and events - refreshments kiosk - picnic area
Butterfly World
St Albans
Butterfly World Fantastic array of butterflies and lovely grounds. Much to see and a good educational slant is applied.
Willows Farm Village
Colney
Willows Farm Village New Build 'n Play - Tractor Trek - Animal Nursery - Guinea Pig Village - Farmyard Favourites - Animal Paddock plus loads more. Great if you are looking for family days out in Hertfordshire.
Natural History Museum at Tring
Tring
Natural History Museum at Tring Visit the galleries and come face to face with a full-sized gorilla, a huge anaconda or an extinct giant moa, just a few of the 4,000 animals on display!
Verulamium Museum
St Albans
Verulamium Museum recreated Roman rooms - hands-on Discovery Areas - video presentations - touch screen databases - some of the finest Roman mosaics and wall plasters outside the Mediterranean
Chiltern Open Air Museum
Chorleywood
Chiltern Open Air Museum Vernacular buildings - the houses and workplaces of past generations - are disappearing every day from the landscape. In the Chilterns, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on London's doorstep, the pressures are particularly great. Chiltern Open Air Museum preserves and interprets the built heritage of the Chilterns that would otherwise be lost.
Aquasplash
Hemel Hempstead
Aquasplash An exciting Indoor Water Theme Park set in a tropical themed Aztec jungle. With a total of six exhilarating rides and slides and extensive features, it's the best waterpark for miles around.
Hertfordshire Sports Village
Hatfield
Hertfordshire Sports Village Hertfordshire Sports Village - tons of sports including swimming programs - check weblink for more details
North Herts Leisure Centre
Letchworth
North Herts Leisure Centre has a Tropical Wave Pool perfectly designed to relax and unwind in. Slide on down our wacky Water Flume or enter the super Tropical Pool, which boasts a fun Wave Machine. There is also a children's Swan Slide and 'Froggy Fountain' Water Squirter.
Hitchin Swimming Centre
Hitchin
Hitchin Swimming Centre Heated indoor and outdoor pools, with both types of toddler pool too and Poolside Baby Seats! (Open between 29th May - 12th September)
Letchworth Outdoor Pool
Letchworth
Letchworth Outdoor Pool Open May to September, this is a pleasant outdoor heated swim facility with toddler splash pool and fun floats.
The Priory Lido
Ware
The Priory Lido Heated outdoor main and teaching pools, with tennis and basketball courts adjacent. Now Open from 4th July to Sunday 5th September.
Hatfield Swim Centre
Hatfield
Hatfield Swim Centre The uniquely designed 33m pool allows a full length to to be swum in either shallow or deep water. The separate Learner Pool and D Pool offer the opportunity to build water confidence in younger children or individuals with their parents in a safe and fun environment.
Hartham Pool and Gym
Hertford
Hartham Pool and Gym Offers a large range of activities, including: Learner pool; children's fun sessions; Aqua Aerobics; range of swimming lessons for children and adults; over 50's swim; special needs sessions; pre/post natal exercise classes; and school holiday activities.
Harpers at Westminster Lodge
St Albans
Harpers at Westminster Lodge The 33 metre pool boasts diving boards, flumes and inflatables with an additional teaching pool. The centre also features outdoor crazy golf, tennis courts and athletics facilities.
Jungle Mania Play Centre
Welwyn Garden City
Jungle Mania Play Centre A fab indoor play structure with three feature-packed levels and a separate toddlers area, containing a whole host of enjoyable and educational activities. Jungle Mania has over 65 play features
Tumble Tent
Letchworth
Tumble Tent Indoor soft play area for under 6's with ballpit and climbing equipment.
Adventure Island Play Barn
Sawbridgeworth
Adventure Island Play Barn - indoor children's play centre incorporating a toddler area for the under 5's, soft play, slides, an aerial runway and ball ponds plus other exciting children's play modules.
Little Legs Playhouse
Bishop's Stortford
Little Legs Playhouse Little Legs Playhouse - Three story play apparatus - Toddler area / Baby corner - Large café, seating 140 - 4' 9" height restriction - Toilets & nappy change
Wacky Warehouse - Pavillion
Watford
Wacky Warehouse - Pavillion Wacky Warehouse - Pavillion - the usual Wacky Warehouse formula - big playframe inddor play centre - bung the kids in and let them run themselves ragged for a couple of hours while you have a break from the little darlings.
DJ's Jungle Adventure Soft Play Centre
St Albans
DJ's Jungle Adventure Soft Play Centre DJ's Jungle Adventure - huge inddor play centre with separate play areas for toddlers and bigger kids. So you can have a sit down and a cup of tea while the kids run themselves ragged - job done!!
Adventure World
London Colney
Adventure World The Adventure World soft play area caters for children aged 6 months to 11 years with 3 dedicated areas of fun, under 2's, under 5's and 5 - 11 years. Warm in the Winter and cool in the Summer it's the perfect place to escape whatever the weather.
The Kidzone
Berkhamsted
The Kidzone The Kidzone - the purpose built multi-level play-frame offers a challenge for the more energetic and adventurous child with it's Rope Bridges, Hamster Wheel and Drop Slide.
Creepy Crawlies Play Centre
Royston
Creepy Crawlies Play Centre Children's Indoor Soft Play Centre based in Royston Leisure Centre
Hatfield Kids Funzone
Hatfield
Hatfield Kids Funzone Hatfield Kids Funzone, is a large indoor muti-level soft play centre
Big Space Indoor Play Centre
Harpenden
Big Space Indoor Play Centre Parent friendly equipment so you can join in or watch more easily - Over 300m2 of Adventure Play Equipment for kids up to 12yrs including Freefall and Wavy Slides - Coffee Bar and lounge
Topsy Turvy
Watford
Topsy Turvy Topsy Turvy world really does turn the world of family fun downside up and outside in. It's the ultimate in soft play for children, allowing them to exhaust their energies within a labyrinth of extreme tunnels, vertical drops and horizontal planes. For parents it's a comfortable and relaxing experience with healthy food, great coffee, and ahhh... a chance to relax.
Cheeky Monkeys Jungle Adventure
Cheshunt
Cheeky Monkeys Jungle Adventure New indoor soft play area offering a warm welcome, delicious refreshments and a great place for kids to have fun. We also have a wonderful outdoor garden area with bouncy castle and slide. So come and join the adventure!
Monkey Bizness
Stevenage
Monkey Bizness - the premier family entertainment centre, where kids can be kidz. With separate play areas for 0-2, 2-5 and 5-12 year olds.
Parents Paradise
Bushey
Parents Paradise Indoor play centre with separate baby and toddler area, over 5's play frame, Go Kart track and Football Arena. Mezzanine floor with pool table, table football, air hockey tables and sofas. The Paradise Cafe serves great family meals, snacks and the best coffee this side of Seattle!
The Adventure Castle
Hertford
The Adventure Castle Come and visit our indoor adventure playground where your child can play and you can watch your child and relax in our comfortable cafe area.
Open every day.
Knebworth House Gardens and Park
Knebworth
Knebworth House Gardens and Park Spend the day exploring extensive Gardens, Maze, Dinosaur Trail, a House full of treasures, Adventure Playground, (includes thrill slides, bouncy castle, Tarzan trails and more) Miniature Railway, Gift shop. Bring a picnic or visit our tea room. Special events throughout the year. All set in a 250 acre country park.
Royston Cave
Royston
Royston Cave Royston Cave is unique in Europe. Believed to date from the 13th Century, it is a man-made cavern in the shape of a beehive, with a small aperture at the top for ventilation. Its most remarkable feature is an extensive range of wall carvings - a knights templar cave in the middle of Hertfordshire?
Rye House Gatehouse
Hoddesdon
Rye House Gatehouse Explore this once fortified manor house. Built in 1443 by Sir Andrew Ogard and restored by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, Rye House Gatehouse is one of the finest medieval moated sites in Hertfordshire and has a vibrant history including an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Charles II.
Sportspace Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead
Sportspace Hemel Hempstead now includes a new swimming pool complex, gymnastics centre, sports hall
Rollercity
Welwyn Garden City
Rollercity Rollercity - is Hertfordshires only purpose build skating rink - it has a Canadian Maple Floor.
London Colney Recreation Centre
London Colney
London Colney Recreation Centre Within the gym there are a surprising variety of child oriented options, including tots to teens sports training, a great range of activity camps, swimming and theme parties - a creche is also available.
The Snow Centre
Hemel Hempstead
The Snow Centre The perfect slope, the perfect snow, the perfect location; this is Britain's brand new indoor snowsports destination. Designed to deliver the alpine conditions every skier and snowboarder dreams of, you'll find a huge 160m main slope as well as the largest indoor lesson slope in the UK. Both our slopes are over 30m wide and maintained with the perfect snow surface.
Court Farm and Leisure
Tillington
Court Farm and Leisure Court Farm and Leisure has Fishing Lakes, Farm Shop & Pick Your Own and a Mountain Board Centre.
Lee Valley Regional Park
Lee Valley
Lee Valley Regional Park The 10,000 acre Park has hundreds of great days out for all the family. Whether it\\\'s a day out at the farms, athletics, golf, horse riding, ice skating, fishing, cycling, bird watching, camping or simply exploring the countryside, Lee Valley Regional Park has so much to explore.
Pots of Art Ceramic Studio
St Albans
Pots of Art Ceramic Studio Come and have fun painting your own original masterpiece, even if you don't think you're artistic! With our help, stencils and stamps you can create an original work of art. We have Pottery Painting, Build A Bear and Decopatch - great fun for all the family.
Pots of Art Ceramics Studio - Hitchin
Hitchin
Pots of Art Ceramics Studio - Hitchin Paint your own pottery studio, build a bear parties and decopatch. There is so much to do at Pots of Art.
Potstop
Knebworth
Potstop Our paint-your-own pottery studio is
suitable for all ages: come and get creative! Choose from our range of pottery blanks from mugs, jugs and flowerpots to animal collectibles and moneyboxes there's something for everyone! We've lots of ideas to get you started and refreshments to keep you going!
Huntfun Bishops Stortford Treasure Hunt
Bishops Stortford
Huntfun Bishops Stortford 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 hertfordshire 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 hertfordshire can enjoy the great day out as well.
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