Ride the Santa train! (Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway)

Member Name: cariad7070

Product:	Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
Date:	07/01/09 (31 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great value for money

Disadvantages: None

As christmas was approaching, i had decided to take my partners little boy and my two nephews to see Father Christmas.

However, i could not find any Grotto's locally, and remembered being told about the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway. I looked them up on the internet and discovered that we could ride the old fashioned steam train with Santa!

Great I thought, so i phoned them up to book our places, although a little steep at £9.80 each (even for the kids!). Anyway two days later my receipt and ticket arrived, so we all looked forward to going.

On the day, we arrived at Llanfair station 10mins early to hear lovely christmas music and a great atmosphere. We boarded the train and were soon on our way, the kids were mesmerised by smoke coming out of a train!

When we came to the next station at Cyfronydd, another steam train came rushing in, and guess who was hanging from it waving? Yea, it was Father Christmas! As we were waiting for him to come to our carriage, some of his friends got on to entertain the kids, we had a reindeer and an orangutan monkey (this wasnt as bizarre as it sounds).

Father Christmas finally arrived by the time we reached the next station, and he sat and talked to the kids and handed them their presents! The presents they got were suitable for their age group, and were quite impressive, if i had bought them from a shop i would probably have spent £10 on them, so good value for money!

As we returned back, we dropped Santa off and waved goodbye to him, the kids were loving every minute! When we arrived back at LLanfair the kids got a free carton of Ribena and a mince pie and the Adults got a free cup of mulled wine (very nice!) and a mince pie.

I would recommend this trip to anyone, it was definitley worth the money, and the kids loved it!

Summary: A great day out!