Last minute trip to Northumberland. Help please!

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We weren’t able to afford a holiday and this year has gotten away from us (we have two special needs children). We’re looking at a last minute trip to Northumberland. The kids love being outside and I’ve done a bit of research already but any must sees would be great though I’m a bit worried that it might rain. Also, anywhere that caters to coeliacs. Eldest of the three (he doesn’t have Sen) is a coeliac.

I'd also agree about beamish, but it's a bit of a drive. Go visit the Sycamore Gap (again it's not that close but amazing on a not raining day with a picnic)

I'd avoid Ashington. It has a reputation and from my experience, a well deserved one.

Amble for a boat trip to see the puffins and ice cream at Spurelli.

Alnwick is great. Ashington... Not so much. Baliffgate Museum in Alnwick is really good and free to get in. Swimming pool is good too. Lots of restaurants and takeaways in and around Alnwick. Plus a good choice of supermarkets.

Plus, it's Alnwick. It's beautiful. My dream retirement plans include a small cottage in Alnwick.

Northumberlandlass Woodhorn is on my list

Ashington is run down and grim. Morpeth is lovely and the complete antithesis of Ashington.

I find The Running Fox underwhelming, but I have only visited the one in Longframlington. Parking in Felton is as rare as hen's teeth. I drove through it earlier today and there wasn't any parking to be found.

Cragside is brilliant, but is £££££ unless you are an NT member.

The other option was a cottage in Morpeth. I thought Alnwick might be a slightly better location.

These suggestions are fantastic. Thank you all so much.

Morpeth has more to offer than Alnwick IMO. It is a lovely market toen and has a good size Morrisons. I really like Morpeth.

Love northumberland so much.

Last time we stayed in warkworth with views to the castle from the front and overlooking the river at the back. Spent my evenings sitting by the river crocheting and watching egrets and herons😎

Lindisfarne, Dunstanburgh castle, Hadrians wall and Warkworth beach are my top choices.

Alnwick is lovely, Bamburgh is another fabulous beach and castle.

The weather is unreliable wherever you go in Uk but we got lucky and had an amazing time.

If I didn't live the other end of the UK, I'd visit all the time!

town not toen!

We were near Amble last week. 1st time to Northumberland. I think everything we did has already been mentioned.

Kids 7, 10, 12. Cragside was our favourite.

Bamburgh castle and there is a gorgeous beach right next to it.
Walworth castle
Woodhorn mining museum
Newbiggin by the sea has a nice little maritime museum right next to the beach
Ice cream at spurellis in Amble.
The whole beach South of amble, druridge bay country park, miles and miles of sandy windswept beautiful beach. Though most beaches along the coast are like this I think.

Cragside is amazing, we went to the beach (the four legged one likes to swim), kielder Forest was beautiful and we loved vinlandia roman ruins. Newcastle has everything a big city usually has so ideal for rain

Doyouthinktheysaurus we stayed at The Sun one Easter. The banks round the castle were covered in daffodils. It was stunning.

A resort will have a bit of inside activities for the younger two at least, mine always loved the bingo (dd is autistic and numbers are her thing!)

Warkworth at Easter

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Oh wow, that's so beautiful TapasForTwo 😎😎

I'm staying in Warkworth next month! 🙂

Super helpful thread!

I'm booked to go camping in Belford next week

Seems there will be a few mumsnetters up there. It looks a truly beautiful place.

Location wise where would people pick between Alnwick and Morpeth?

Morpeth
Morpeth
Morpeth

I'd choose Cresswell Towers with DC over a cottage in Alnwick definitely. We had a great time there it was such good value and fab caravan.

Northumberland is lovely, yes it might rain but you aren't soluble. Can you tell I like British holidays

@Teateaandmoretea they don’t have any spaces. A lot of places aren’t accessible to stay as we want to bring our dog with us.

But we did like the look of it 🙂

Location wise where would people pick between Alnwick and Morpeth?

All things being equal Alnwick is an amazing location. And it is handy for going a bit further north (Holy Island etc). Morpeth for me is too near Newcastle. But it would depend on the accommodation.