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Dinosaur adventure land near norwich - is it open?

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stressed2007 · 20/02/2010 16:27

Can anyone please tell me if this park is currently open and if it is any good? Thanks

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BoffinMum · 20/02/2010 16:32

Yes, we went earlier in the week, and while it cost us about £30, we enjoyed it. The boys did the assault course in the snow! If yoy're eating there I would recommend the Pasta King dishes in the cafe (it's a bit cold for a picnic, after all). It's not very busy there at the moment, so a good time to visit, but it was cold up there.

ShowOfHands · 20/02/2010 16:39

Yup it's open. And is it good? It's bloody brilliant.

DD would live there if she could. It's better when the weather's nice but not impossible when it's chilly. Go early, spend the whole day there. There's enough to do that you'll want the whole day.

Website here

There are assault courses, parky bits with good forts/slides, go-karty things, crazy golf, massive dinosaurs, a small farm with indoor reptiley bit, deer safari, maze, fossil digging, lots of open space for mad dashing. It's fab.

stressed2007 · 20/02/2010 16:53

great - thanks v much. Subject to weather will defo go tomorrow

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stressed2007 · 20/02/2010 16:55

Any suggestions on best bits to do - I have a 4 and 2 (dinosaur mad) year old

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BoffinMum · 20/02/2010 16:58

There are pedal bike things that you can put a child on the back of, so if there are two parents this would work, or the four year old could have a go on the kiddie ones while you go around with the two year old.

They will also probably like the little zoo.

The main thing you do though is a dinosaur trail, and you collect stamps at different points and get a medal at the end if you have all 8 stamps. That's good too.

ShowOfHands · 20/02/2010 17:12

My dd is 2. She loves collecting the stamps (on her hands as well as the paper) and collecting her medal at the end. She likes the slides (particularly the climbasaurus- your 4yr old will love it!), dinosaur hunting through the trail, the mini-farm. She also loves those pedal car things (raptor races). In fact, she loves all of it.

stressed2007 · 20/02/2010 17:17

oops just sseen it is 2.5 hours away may have to save it for a weekend trip - such a shame didn't think Norwich was that far

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ShowOfHands · 20/02/2010 17:23

It's not really near Norwich either.

Whereabouts, roughly, are you?

stressed2007 · 20/02/2010 17:48

North london/hertfordshire - totally desperate to get out for the day tomorrow - we are going stir crazy here. Any other suggestions?

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BoffinMum · 20/02/2010 19:31

Wimpole Farm, Cambridgeshire. National Trust property. Loads to do.

1Littleboy1Bigboy · 14/03/2010 20:16

bit late to add to this thread but it is a fab day out there. A LONG drive from herts though. They accept tesco vouchers now too.

Willow farm, paradise wildlife park, mead open farm are all nice places

stressed2007 · 30/03/2010 09:10

thanks for that info - fact we can use Tesco vouchers makes it even cheaper!

We are thinking of trying to go next week and maybe staying overnight and going somewhere else the next day (anywhere en route between there and North London really).

Can anyone please suggest:

  1. somewhere nice we might stay for one night with 2 small children (if it had a pool even better though not a necessity).
  1. somewhere else to visit?

Many thanks

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