Santa at Cribbs Causeway - brilliant fun

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Went to Cribbs Causeway today with the 3 year old

It was QUIET as anything - no queues

They had a great Santa Castle and a very nice Santa grotto inside (£4 includes soft toy from Santa), and took a nice digital picture (£4 again or £6 for two, but it was so lovely I bought 4 ).

AND brilliant brilliant ice-skating for the small children - strap-on skates with two blades, and slow-moving penguin supports for the children to use to move around the ice. My 3 year old managed it fine.

It was a great day out, could have stayed all day and normally hate that sort of thing. Also managed all of it just fine with just me and the toddler.

whats the accessibility like in the grotto? tried to take dd to the one in the Galleries and couldn't do it cos of wheelchair issues. Could go to Cribbs?

NMC there were ramps there last year from the concourse down to the rink, plus a kind of wheelchair on skates.

Hang on, I'll have a google.

Nothing on the website, only gives info about accessibilty for the main mall NMC

There was a wheelchair session going on while I was there with about six children - these strapping lads were whizzing them around REALLY FAST - so I guess they must have access (the grotto is on the same level as the ice-rink)

wheelchair on skates!!!! this I must see

They were REALLY going fast, I have read about wheelchair-ice-skating and assumed it would be very sedate, but it was definitely NOT! The children were being REALLY whizzed around at the speed of light!

can you use your own chair? dd is too, umm, floppy to use a standard chair. She loves going fast. dh runs with her in her chair.

That is so great MP (I was beginning to think that I had imagined that)

There you go NMC, worth a punt eh?

I don't know about your own chair, but I would think so (am trying to remember what I saw but wasn't paying much attention - didn't twig that the chairs were unusual at all, so I expect they are just the children's normal chairs?)

You could try one of these numbers:

Telephone Information Line:
0117 903 0303
Management Offices:
0117 915 5555
AccessAbility Unit:
0117 915 5326

you didn't take notes, take pictures and place it all on a website. sheesh
next you wont be offering to come fetch dd and take her for me while I drink wine do wholesome housework stylee things....

TBH I was mainly concentrating on the big strapping lads

the rest was a blur

you should of seen a couple of the docs at the hospital. Had to ask one to repeat what he said cos I was too busy letching

snigger

NMC did you see that about TB at BRI ?

yes. but given the Childrens' OD'ed dd I'm not suprised at Bristol hospitals anymore.