We are having our holiday in Leeds and that's the end of it. I need to sell it to them

[Lighthousekeeping]

Apparently they are sick of going to York. TBF i take them every year. Three girls aged 11, 13 and 14. I've already booked it so it's not negociable but, can anyone advise me of the great things to do there?

YSP from Leeds is about half an hour by car

Ah 0 just seen don't drive

I don't drive. I thought there might be a bus or something

Lighthouse

You can get to the sculpture park by train to Wakefield west gate, walk to the bus station then get the bus to Barnsley, it goes via the sculpture park

Or get a taxi from Wakefield train station, it's around £10-12 in a taxi so depends on your budget

Wakefield is nearer for YSP and there's a bus - however Wakefield is a bit grim....

If you fancy Tropical World get the number 12 from town and it stops just before it (get off at the park gates).

YSP

BY TRAIN
Wakefield Westgate is the nearest main line station, around seven miles from YSP. A taxi from the station costs approximately £10.

BY BUS
Buses run between Wakefield Bus Station and Barnsley Interchange via West Bretton. Buses stop and depart directly outside the YSP Centre. The current provider is Tates Travel, number 96.

Trains from Leeds to Wakefield Westgate take about 15 minutes

Bus info: wymetro.com/findyourbus/search/results/?type=route&param=96

Sculpture park is easy. Train from Leeds to either Wakefield or Barnsley. No 96 from both takes you into the park. It is £4.60 for a day ticket on the bus. Or you can get a train ticket to Wakefield with the plus bus option for an extra couple of pounds.

City centre art gallery is good as well I think (it's years since I lived in Leeds though, so this might be unreliable!)

I think the bus is just after the hour from Wakefield and about half past from sculpture park to go back. The bus stop is very easy to find too.

Also worth a visit in Wakefield is the Hepworth gallery. That's really close to the station.

Thanks. I've bed wanting to go since it opened.

You can get their by bus from Wakefield which will be nearer
www.ysp.co.uk/page/find-us/tc
I'd recommend a day window shopping at Meadowhall in Sheffield by train. 9th ring of hell for you but may appease your dds

Leeds art gallery and info about the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle

Leeds now has the Trinity shopping centre, which is rather nice and has nice places to eat, the Mexican place at the top is yummy and Trinity Kitchen is a street food place which is great fun. Great shopping and a lovely but expensive Everyman cinema.

There is a fake beach in Leeds in summer at millennium square, which can be nice on a hot day.

Xscape is great, easy to get to by train, you can ski, surf, play golf with a giant trex, climb and eat there.

What sorta stuff do they like? Theatre? Art galleries? Gardens? Shopping? Sports? Eating out?

I thought Harry Ramsdens at Guiseley had shut.

Not very stealthy boast alert but I was at the opening of the YSP in my pushchair......

If you like charity shops go to Headingley - there are eleventy zillion there!

Ooooh get you Queenofknickers! Half a crown to talk to you is it?

you'll have to do more than fuckin sell it to them!! Leeds !!

ffs!!

What's wrong with Leeds, Alice, that merits that kind of response?

The OP has made it quite clear why she has chosen it as a place to go.

Lighthousekeeping not sure if it's your thing, but Shrek is on at the Grand Theatre

Harry Ramsdens at Guiseley is now the Wetherby Whaler.
It's very nice but I wouldn't bother going there specially.

I love Roundhay park and tropical world.

full of yorkshire people ha ha