South East Mums … Bocketts, Hobbledown or Chobham for a Christmas visit

[Incfae5]

I’m trying to decide which to do with my 2 kids, age 5 and 3 for a Christmas Day out and visit to Santa. Which is best?

We've done Bocketts a few times (not for a few years though) and it's lovely...involves a tractor ride which is fun. We haven't done Hobbledown at Christmas but I know people who have and it's supposedly great.

My absolute favourite one is Crockford Bridge Farm. You go for a walk through an enchanted forest with elves to Santa's hut. It's so beautifully done but unfortunately hasn't run since Covid. The problem is they only release tickets after their pumpkin festival (which is also amazing!) so early November. For the past two years I've held out for tickets and then they've announced that they are unable to run it, by which time a lot of other places have sold out. So I've done something different this year but I really hope it comes back at some point.

We're doing Bocketts Farm for Father Christmas this year. Haven't done it before and it looks amazing.

I can highly recommend chessington world of adventures/chessington garden center and Tullys farm.

I was about to suggest Chessington and Tulley's too! We've done both and they were good. We are doing Tulley's again this year.