Family Days Out near to Glasgow
Busy Bees Craft Studio (< 1km)
Glasgow
Busy Bees Craft Studio Busy Bees Craft Studio is ideal for weekend or after school activities.
Glasgow Ski and Snowboard Centre (2km)
Glasgow
Glasgow Ski and Snowboard Centre learn to ski better, learn to board. Whether an absolute beginner or an aspiring carver, you'll learn more quickly and have more fun in group lessons
Whale Of A Time Indoor Playcentre (2km)
Glasgow
Whale Of A Time Indoor Playcentre Kids indoor playcentre in Glasgow
Huntfun Glasgow Treasure Hunt (3km)
Glasgow
Huntfun Glasgow 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.
AMF Bowling (4km)
Glasgow
AMF Bowling 26 lanes of ten-pin-tastic foolery!! Great fun for all the family.
Museum Of Transport (4km)
Glasgow
Museum Of Transport The museum uses its collections of vehicles and models to tell the story of transport by land and sea, with a unique Glasgow flavour. Here you will find the oldest surviving pedal cycle and the finest collection in the world of Scottish-built cars.
Geronimos Indoor Soft Play Centre (4km)
Glasgow
Geronimos Indoor Soft Play Centre Indoor soft play centre in Glasgow, more info coming soon.
Glasgow Science Centre (4km)
Glasgow
Glasgow Science Centre is one of Scotland's must-see visitor attractions - all brought together to entertain and excite you. The Centre contains hundreds of interactive exhibits; the ScottishPower Planetarium, Scotland's only IMAX cinema, Science Show Theatre, Climate Change Theatre and the 127m Glasgow Tower. Prepare to be intrigued and challenged and, above all, have a great day out!
Runamok Softplay (9km)
Glasgow
Runamok Softplay Childrens indoor soft play centre in Glasgow - awaiting more details, give them a ring for opening and times
Dollan Aqua Centre (9km)
East Kilbride
Dollan Aqua Centre CLOSED FOR THE WHOLE OF 2010 - The 50 metre pool can be split into two separate pools and has two flumes and a kiddies splash pool. There is a creche which is open every morning and a softplay area for children aged up to 7 open every afternoon.
Climbzone Xscape (10km)
Glasgow
Climbzone Xscape - Scotland's new indoor adventure sports centre - climbing walls, aerial playground, fan drop and robocoaster all within the dedicated Xscape facility. Awaiting details for kids sessions.
Soccer Circus (10km)
Braehead, Renfrew
Soccer Circus It is the worlds first ever fully interactive football attraction, engaging visitors in a series of exciting, immersive football challenges...
Wacky Warehouse - Bobbin Mill (10km)
Paisley
Wacky Warehouse - Bobbin Mill - following the tried and tested formula of great kids soft play structure with balls and slides and loads of climbing things, so the kids can have a great time running themselves ragged, while you put you feel up with a nice cup of refreshment - jobs a good 'un!!
Lagoon Leisure Centre (10km)
Paisley
Lagoon Leisure Centre Leisure pool with wave machine and flumes and small pool for families.
Junglee Fun Play Centre (11km)
Uddingston
Junglee Fun Play Centre The Uddingston site is the largest of Junglee Fun's venues catering from 0 10 years so fantastic fun for all the family. A perfect place to visit for a day out. 2 exciting play areas one for the wee ones and a larger exciting area for children aged up to 10 years.
The Play Drome (13km)
Clydebank
The Play Drome The Play Drome boasts some of the best swimming facilities in the West of Scotland. The leisure pool has numerous water features including a wave machine, river rapids, water canons, tyre ride, fast flume and a beach area.
Monkey Madness (13km)
Clydebank
Monkey Madness There is something for the whole family at Monkey Madness. Kids aged 0-12 can enjoy a wonderful four level frame with miles of multiple play Tube Slide, V-Bridge, Spiders Web Net, Punch Bags, Snakes, Roller Squeeze, Twin Track Aerial Glide, two Large Ball Pools, Free Fall Slides and many more....
Mugdock Country Park (13km)
Glasgow
Mugdock Country Park There is something for everyone at Mugdog Country Park. Get involved in cycling, archery, explore the castle or take part in the history trail, scavenger hunt, orienteering or tree trail.
The Time Capsule (14km)
Coatbridge
The Time Capsule There is a fun pool with waves and slides and a 25 metre swimming pool. Theres also an ice rink which has a special resident.... a wooly mammoth! But.. the fun doesnt end there! For Kids under 11, The Adventure Zone will please them! With a giant slide, ball pits and rope slides I guarantee they will be amused for hours!
Hamilton Water Palace (14km)
Hamilton
Hamilton Water Palace Leisure pool including flume/tyre slide/river rapids/outdoor lagoon, 25 metre pool with floating floor, Children's pool - great idea if you are looking for family days out in scotland.
M&D's Scotland's Theme Park (18km)
Motherwell
M&D's Scotland's Theme Park M&D's Scotland's Theme Park is FUN for ALL the family! A great selection of rides and attractions, from the kiddie's corner to the more thrilling rides and attractions for teens and adults! Check on our website for discounts! Great idea if you are looking for family days out in Scotland.
Amazonia (18km)
Motherwell
Amazonia Amazonia is Scotland's largest indoor rainforest attraction offering a new fun and educational experience for all ages. It's a unique place to learn and explore, offering children and adults an insight into life in a tropical forest. Visitors are also given the opportunity to take part in daily animal handling sessions.
Rainforest Adventure (18km)
Motherwell
Rainforest Adventure Rainforest Adventure is an exciting new indoor soft play centre for children.
Wizzi's Castle Indoor Play Centre (22km)
Wishaw
Wizzi's Castle Indoor Play Centre Wishaw's only children's soft indoor play centre offering two fun soft play areas with slides, two great party rooms and arts and craft activities in Wizzi's Weekday Toddler Time sessions. While the kids play, parents can enjoy lunch from our varied hot and cold menu.
Sox And Slides Indoor Playcentre (24km)
Dumbarton
Sox And Slides Indoor Playcentre A 5 level playframe with 4 super slides, ball canons and a ball juggler - sound like a great indoor play centre in scotland - let me at it!!
The Meadow Leisure Centre (24km)
Dumbarton
The Meadow Leisure Centre The Meadow Centre complex offers a wide range of facilities and activities, including a large leisure pool, complete with wave machine and a water slide and a large sports hall.
Loudoun Castle Theme Park (28km)
Galston
Loudoun Castle Theme Park From Rollercoasters to Jammy Dodgems, Pirate Swing Boats to Log Flumes, some unusual and friendly animals up on 'McDougals' Rare Breeds Farm, exciting 'Birds of Prey' demonstrations and New for 2007 is 'Barnstormer' ,opening in April and Big Top daily Theatre performances, featuring; acrobats and jugglers!
Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve (29km)
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve This loch is famous for its beautiful wooded shores and islands. The reserve embraces five of the loch's islands, each supporting rich, mature oak woodland.
Loch Lomond Aquarium (29km)
Balloch
Loch Lomond Aquarium A visit to Loch Lomond Aquarium is not complete without a journey through our magnificent Ocean Tunnel displaying over twenty species of tropical fish from around the world. Here you will find fishy facts on our six black tip sharks, two nurse sharks and our very own footballer zebra shark, Sir Bobby Robson.
Loch Lomond Bird Of Prey Centre (29km)
Nr Balloch
Loch Lomond Bird Of Prey Centre A small centre attached to a garden centre close to Loch Lomond. Around 30 birds in total. Regular flying displays should start at the centre sometime in 2006. They also run introductory days, hawk walks & hunting days.
Vale of Leven Swimming Pool (29km)
Alexandria
Vale of Leven Swimming Pool Swimming pool with inflatable fun sessions and Wean's World - a play area for the smalls. Click the i for more details and a link to their website.
Loch Lomond Aquarium (29km)
Balloch
Loch Lomond Aquarium Welcome to the magical marine world of The Loch Lomond Aquarium. We will introduce you to many strange, beautiful and facinating creatures of the deep. Prepare for astonishing close views of everything from humble starfish to mighty sharks, all in displays which carefully recreate their natural habitats.
Galleon Centre (31km)
Kilmarnock
Galleon Centre As well as providing facilities for swimming it houses an ice rink, bowling hall, two sports halls, squash courts, a sauna/solarium suite, a superb fitness room and two bars - fun swims available to kids aged 8 and over, under 7's must be accompanied by an adult.
Waterfront Leisure Complex (33km)
Greenock
Waterfront Leisure Complex everything from an outdoor lagoon to a tropical wave pool and ice discos and curling rink
Dundonald Castle (33km)
Dundonald
Dundonald Castle Dundonald Castle is in its own renaissance period. The castle has been transformed over the past ten years and more into one of the must visit attractions in Ayrshire. Situated on a hill above the village the castle affords some of the best views of Ayrshire
Callendar House (33km)
Falkirk
Callendar House Situated amidst magnificent park and woodland, Callendar House tells stories spanning 600 years of Scottish history. Through wars, rebellions and the industrial revolution, the house has played host to many great historical figures over the centuries, including Mary, Queen of Scots, Cromwell and Bonnie Prince Charlie. Callendar House is nice to walk round with boating pond, kids play area and woodland walks.
Falkirk Wheel (33km)
Falkirk
Falkirk Wheel As the world's first and only rotating boat lift, The Falkirk Wheel is quite simply unique.. There are many events that take place throughout the year at The Falkirk Wheel with also a good playground on the site for the kids to let off steam on.
Cheeky Monkeys (33km)
Falkirk
Cheeky Monkeys Cheeky Monkeys has 3 slides and the usual ball pit set-up, kids love it.
Mariner Leisure Centre (33km)
Falkirk
Mariner Leisure Centre Lagoon-shaped leisure pool with beach area and wave machine - 4 x 25m lanes and baby pool - poolside viewing and family friendly communal changing village - frog, dolphin, whale and walrus chutes along with frog-on-a-log water feature - child and adult swimming lessons available.
Funky Forest at the Outside Inn (35km)
Falkirk
Funky Forest at the Outside Inn The younger visitors enjoy the Funky Forest play facility and this allows their carers the chance to enjoy some moments of their own. Not suitable for younger children, as it is not a soft play but 3 years and over.
Magnum Leisure Centre (35km)
Irvine
Magnum Leisure Centre Leisure Pool
Ice Rink
Soft Play
Birthday Parties
KA Fitness
SHOKK Fitness
Dry Sports Activities - Squash, Badminton, vOLLEYBALL ETC.
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regime (36km)
Stirling
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regime The Regimental Museum which is in the King's Old Building of Stirling Castle. It is one of the most fascinating museums in Scotland,
David Marshall Lodge Visitor Centre (36km)
Aberfoyle
David Marshall Lodge Visitor Centre David Marshall Lodge visitor centre is the best place to start exploring the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. The Carnegie Trust gifted the centre to the Forestry Commission in 1960. Its location above Aberfoyle offers some of the most spectacular views in the area including a stunning view across Loch Ard Forest to Ben Lomond.
Stirling Castle (36km)
Stirling
Stirling Castle All kids love castles and this is without doubt one of the grandest of all Scottish castles, both in its situation on a commanding rock outcrop and in its architecture.
AMF Bowling Stirling (36km)
Stirling
AMF Bowling Stirling If you've never been, then take the kids bowling, they love it. If they are too young to hold a bowl they can use the ball ramp - a great idea for a family day out. AMF Stirling has 28 lanes. Great idea for a kids birthday party as well.
Go Ape! (36km)
Aberfoyle
Go Ape! 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?
Stirling Old Town Jail (36km)
Stirling
Stirling Old Town Jail - an authentic Victorian prison in the heart of the city. Take a fascinating live tour - to meet the characters of the jail - including the hangman! Look out from the Rooftop Viewpoint, and visit the exhibition area for a glimpse of prison life today.
Causewayhead Park (36km)
Stirling
Causewayhead Park Fun for the whole family with woodland trails, an adventure playground, and homemade ice-creams.
Bannockburn (36km)
Stirling
Bannockburn Exhibition "The Kingdom of the Scots" includes an audio visual of the Battle of Bannockburn and audio tour of property.
Thanks for all the great places to go when visiting Strathclyde you keep sending in. Now the christmas 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, ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, ten pin bowling alleys and other attractions as possible.
Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for 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 Strathclyde can enjoy the day out as well.
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