Any suggestions for fun, perhaps slightly unusual day trips?

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I love doing different trips with the children. They don't like theme parks and I am not well enough to do lots of walking, but beyond that they are quite happy to try different things. I'd love to come up with some things we haven't tried before!

I use a wheelchair for long distances/on bad days so wheelchair friendly trips a bonus but not essential (I can plan rest days to recover if needed)

I just feel a bit out of inspiration and would love some new ideas! Planning to build a few nights away around a day trip (with rest /chilling time built in too), so anywhere in southern/central England would be good

Things that we (or they) have enjoyed previously (to help share ideas for others too)
-MAD museum Stratford

• paddle boarding, white water rafting, katakanu, sailing
• Fleet air arm museum
• science museums/Space museum

-hovercraft to isle of wight

• spinnaker tower /historic dockyard
• Weymouth/lighthouse at Portland bill

-aqua parks /big water slides

We have a tour of the mini factory booked for a couple of weeks time so looking forward to that.

Bumping now the formatting issue is sorted (thank you MNHQ) and it doesn't look like I'm shouting!

Escape room
Farnham sculpture park
House of Marbles
High Weald Dairy cheese factory tour
Maize maze
Crabbing
Beckonscot model village

Oh thank you!! This is a fab list to get started with, lots of things I hadn't heard of but that sounds interesting

Kite flying

Creswell Crags North Notts
Galleries of Justice, Nottm
Cadbury World Birmingham
Black Country Living Museum. Dudley.

Oh yes good plan, they actually have kites and we have totally forgotten about them

Have you seen the treasure hunts you can buy online? You could choose a city you know is wheelchair friendly. Think one for kids is called treasure trails.

Treasure Trails are great, there are loads of them for even quite small towns/villages. They should say in the description if there are steps or if they're wheelchair/pushchair friendly. They're a great way to get you exploring and properly looking at things you wouldn't otherwise - hunting down plaques on the side of buildings, memorial stones, dates or patterns designed into gates, learning weird facts about the local area.

• Black Country museum
• bletchley park
• the operating theatre (check wheelchair access)
• highlights of the British library
• museum of childhood

just initial thoughts. Whereabouts are you op?

I remember loving the Weald and Downland Living Museum.

We recently did a big water fight with cousins and friends. Not a day out as such but it went really well and was actually fun…. DH and my DB probably had the most fun, but the kids loved it too.

Second galleries of justice. If your kids like something spooky there’s the dungeons, I don’t know how accessible they are though as I’ve not been in years.

Underground! Either Big Pit in South Wales or National Mining Museum in Wakefield. Prob NMM is easier for wheelchair access - Big Pit is on a mountain.

Pool Bridge Farm (outdoor swimming pool/paddle boarding) then York railway museum.

Oh yes it's lovely 😊

my boys love this - find a local town with plenty of charity shops. give the children a specific amount of small change each (e.g £6.84) and tell them that have to spend that exact amount of money and buy the funniest / craziest / weirdest items from the charity shops. then review them all over a picnic in the local park. we sometimes then recycle the items back to a charity shop! we do this in bristol quite often and it’s always fun. there is
sometimes some serious haggling when you’re down to the last 41p!

North Hampshire, but planning a night or two away so happy to travel up to a few hours.

The Secret Nuclear Bunker in Essex (though pretty sure it's not wheelchair friendly).

Oh that's helpful if they say whether things are wheelchair friendly

Farnham Sculpture Park is amazing, but wasn't terribly wheelchair friendly when I last went. There were gorgeous benches you could take rests on though, I would have loved one had they not been so frighteningly expensive!

This is a great idea!

Free cinema tickets

https://escapes.cinematik.app/

There are lots of walking tours in London, with various themes, and as they're on streets, they'd be wheelchair friendly. Some include river boats, you could take a look and find one that fits your interests?

In Bristol:-

Aerospace Museum at Filton to see Concorde.
The Wave (inland surfing lake)
SS Great Britain
Clifton Suspension Bridge
The Matthew
MShed museum
Trip around the harbour in the ferry

In Bath:-
The Roman Baths
The American museum
Bath Thermae Spa.

Further afield from me:
Helicopter museum , beach and pier at Weston-super-Mare.
Haynes Motor Museum near Yeovil
Fleet Air Arm museum at Yeovilton.
West Somerset railway (steam trains) runs from Bishops Lydeard near Taunton to Minehead .
Stonehenge
Beaulieu Motor museum
Glastonbury Tor, Abbey and Town
Clarks Village at Street (shopping).

Geocashing!
Hours of fun, go for the ones in parks and towns to keep it accessible.

https://www.geocaching.com

Riverboat from Westminster to Greenwich to look at the National Maritime Museum and get street food from the market. DLR to Canary Wharf for the Docklands Museum - there's a fun play gallery on the groundfloor call Mudlarks that sometimes needs pre-booking. Then DLR back to Bank. Probably better not with the chair but lots of opportunities for sitting down.