Winter in Belfast: tips please

[Rosy]

We'll be spending our Xmas holidays in Belfast, and I'm looking for any tips about places to take the kids when it's wet and miserable. We'll have a day at W5, but was wondering if there are any soft play areas / swimming pools etc. that anyone could recommend. Our children are 5 and 8. Thanks.

theres dundonald ice bowl, they have indianaland and extreme bowling i think, though i havent been over there for a while.
theres the ulster museum at botanic, also the ulster folk and transport museum in holywood
funworks is a softplay area in glengormley, theres a sportsbowl and cimema beside it
belfast zoo..if it isnt too wet

some stuff going on

You could easily spend a whole day at the 5 thingie at the Odyssey centre - we did with a 2yo, a 5yo and an 8yo. Fabulous. Cinema there too for a wet afternoon.

Folk & Transport is also good.

New, superb softplay on the way in to Bangor, again good for a spread of ages with a nice cafe in the middle of it all.

The panto was fun at the Grand Opera (pricey though compared to our one here).

HTH

Thanks so much both of you. Those are exactly the kind of things I was looking for, and my Christmas will be so much better for your suggestions. There's only so long I want to spend in the house with boisterous kids watching too much TV and eating too many sweets. Isn't the internet great? R.