Conkers Reviews

What do you do when you are faced with three moaning kids, who are only two days into the school holidays and are already sitting po faced on the sofa complaining that they are bored? Well the answer to that is simple. Take them to Conkers. If I say the word conker to you, some of you will think about those lethal weapons on pieces of ...

There's a large sign on the M1 in Leicestershire proudly proclaiming "The National Forest", which is odd because there aren't any trees around. What's going on? A hoax? A cockup? Actually it's a sign 10 to 20 years ahead of its time. In 2020 this area will look very different. The key to the mystery lies ...

Kids bored and still 3 weeks of the summer holidays to go, can’t face going to Alton Towers, live in or close to the Midlands then why not give Conkers a try. Conkers is a new interactive museum/theme park that has just opened near Ashby in Derbyshire. It is set in the new National Forest and its focus is nature and trees ...

Let the kids (and adults) go Bonkers at this lovely, newly extended and refurbed visitor attraction. On walking into the new area you are greated by a large area with a tree growing out of the ground on a see through floor, under the floor you can see the roots of the tree in really fine detail, something that you wouldn't usually see of ...