Day in York with 6 and 8 year old

[Queenie72]

Hi
We have a day / night in York and was just wondering what is good to do with children - are the Viking centre or chocolate story any good? Any child friendly restaurant recommendations?

Yes and yes! Both Jorvik and Chocolate Story are great.
Double Dutch pancake house has a really enormous selection of equally enormous pancakes - both sweet and savoury. Or you can design your own. A good choice of creative milkshakes and gigantic frakenshakes! They do a smaller version of every pancake. It's right next door to the Minster (which is worth a climb if you have time).
The National Railway Museum is free and a really good trip even if you don't like trains. It's very interactive.

Brilliant thanks, the children love pancakes so that sounds like a great plan!

The castle museum with the indoor street is brilliant

Railway Museum is fantastic & free. Last time we went we just wandered around and walked the walls. There's a nice Pizza Express by the river.

Castle Museum
York Minster does backpacks for children to do/search things around the cathedral, worth getting one.
Walking around the Shambles

Railway Museum is brilliant imo!! Far better than Jorvik Centre for little kids

Definitely railway museum rather than Jorvik for younger children. Otherwise all the above suggestions are great.

I agree with nancy75. We had been to The castle museum several times already. It was a very awesome place.

All of these mentioned are great

also -

• boat trip down the Ouse

• take a picnic and sit in the Museum Gardens and watch the squirrels

Book the Chocolate Story in advance - lots of disappointed people (including us) that hadn't!