To stomp back to Jorvik and demand our money back?

[Stealthpolarbear]

When we asked dd what her favourite bit of our visit was she said "learning all about the cavemen"
Hmmmm

I've been to Jorvik 5 times I think and have never noticed the shagging couple!

For those saying it's expensive the ticket was valid for a year last time I went. As was York Castle museum which I could easily spend several hours in.

We were there this week and I was really disappointed. I went 30ish years ago when it first opened and remember being amazed. It just seemed short, expensive and absolutely packed this time round. Even more disappointed to find I missed Viking shaggers too.

It's just two pairs of feet in a door way NorksWar!

I went recently and I'm fairly sure they'd shut the door! Maybe they'd had a few complaints.

On Tuesday we went to Think Tank ( science museum in birmingham) according to DS the best bit was eating crisps at lunch.

Those visiting York with dc - I recommend the Yorkshire Museum in the Museum gardens. They have some dinosaurs and stuffed animals, some roman stuff and medieval bits and a film going backwards in York history which dd loves (voiced by Dan Snow)

We spent the day at the zoo, looking at lots of amazing, interesting animals. Dd was most excited by the ducks and the monorail

Someone called?!?!?

I've never been to Jorvik, but, seriously, does it have a 'smell'? I've read about this on MN before.

The only (I assume similar) place I've been to is the basement/cellar areas at Warwick Castle where they have a large display of various mediaeval human activities - but I don't recall a 'smell'!

If your children are 'in to' archaeology, could I recommend 'Dig' in York? We had a great time there the other summer!

I went a couple of years ago and the smell is definitely much stronger than when I visited the first time when it had just opened. Took hours to get the pong out my nose and put me off my lunch!

Fru its a manufactured scent of what they think the viking settlement would have smelt like given the lack of sewers, open fires, infrequent bathing etc.

I also though it seemed much smaller but then it was a 30 year gap in visits so was probably my childsize memory of it and it was far too crowded so you couldn't see many of the exhibits properly which was really disappointing.

I took dd during the summer holidays and the smell/oppressiveness made her vomit on the floor copiously. I felt particularly bad as it was just after she'd looked at the Viking poo and I thought she was being dramatic so told her to stop being ridiculous #badparent!

I assumed that was the case, Patrician!

But, fortunately, I'm too ancient to have to had come across this sort of thing

This generation will be the me-mes

Ahem

As you were.

Anybody watching 'Vikings' series on
tv?
Craic I was disappointed with the Titanic exhibition.
So were others who went.
What did you think?

Went to York a few years back and my dh was desperate to go to Jorvik, but I said no because I'm utterly terrified of human waxworks and animatronic figures. Tell me - I would have shat myself wouldn't I?

We went once, haven't been back. Very over rated, smelly, dull and short (sounds like a joke about an ex!). Castle museum is much better.

We did a day out in York in the June half term, it was torrential rain!!

Anyway the castle museum was brilliant, 8yo dd loved it and we spent ages there. The prison bit was amazing, really bought it all to life.

Has a 'what the hell' moment and did the Jorvic cenntre as well and yes me and dd in unison said 'is that it' as we wandered into the gift shop

It was alright but expensive and not as much fun as I remembered it being when I went as a child.

Can't recommend the museum enough though.

I went with a school trip when teacher training years ago. I pretended that I thought that it was amazing (the class teacher was raving about it) but secretly I thought that it was massively over-hyped and I couldn't wait to get back on the coach. Although I've continued to have that feeling on most school trips to be fair.
All I can remember is the ride and the old sock smells. Kind of like giving my ds's a lift back from a sleepover.

Mean, yes you would

I did it with a hangover. Never again. I barely made it through.

I did my work experience many many years ago there

It basically consisted of going round it constantly every day.

They gave me a reference that said I was 'hard working' and 'showed initiative'. I wasn't, I just went in a constant circle on the ride.

And the only thing I remember is that they played a game called knafltafl. And didn't wear horny helmets.

'Twas a good two weeks, but I used to come home smelling like a Viking cess pit.

Went as a child, I would have thought they'd have expanded it by now?

Yes, agree about 'The Smell', just tried to describe it to DH: manure, boiled vegetables, sweat but there was an overriding sickly almost 'sweet' note that I couldn't describe - possibly recreating rotting meat?

DH said it sounds 'yummy', I said Yankee Candle are doing one next season

clash Hnefatafl is a great game! We played it at the York viking festival (my children already knew of it from Noggin the Nog).

The smell has the pervasiveness of patchouli, some sort of under-note that cannot be described, like burning pumpkin.