Flambards a great day (Flambards Village Theme Park)

Member Name: lubyloo

Product:	Flambards Village Theme Park
Date:	18/06/09 (16 review reads)
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Advantages: has lots of indoor areas for wet days!

Disadvantages: Not lots of teen's/adult rides

We have just returned from a fabulous holiday in cornwall. We decided to go back to flambards, we'd been a few years ago when our daughter was very small and enjoyed it. We now have two daughters aged 9 and 6 and wow what a fabulous day they had. They have not stopped going on about it - and that's the truth!
We arrived at the opening time the car park wasn't full (mind you it was out of season). We actually used £50.00 worth of our tesco club card vouchers. A family of four is £49.50 (you don't get change) so we walked in having not spent a penny which felt good to start! Luckily the weather was lovely for us so we were able to go the outdoor rides. I must admit it's not Alton towers or even Drayton Manor, there aren't lots of huge rides. We went on a monocopter! it's a mono rail which you pedal round on! the girls enjoyed myself and my husband getting exhausted pedalling round!
They have a victorian village which the girls thoroughly enjoyed it's in doors so if the weathers not good it's a great. It's quite large and there's lots to look at and talk about with the children. It really feels like your in a different world. There is also a war exhibition which is really good, it gives a good idea of what it would have been like living through the war. Most of the characters looked like wax works to me and were very realistic. There is also a miscenlanious viewing area which has life size cockpits of planes which children can go in and pretend to fly! There was also a chemist shop which has been transported to Flambards complete as it was found cobwebs and all. All of this is indoors.
We took a picnic and found a lovely spot to have it. There are quite a few scavanger birds but then you get that in a lot of places now because people feed them - DON'T!!
We then went around an exhibition called 'Hands on' the girls loved this too, in fact they were fascinated. Again it's not huge, it's quite scientific and hands on! you try out different expriments using lights and mirrors - even my self and my husband had a great time trying out the things.
After that we went to the childrens rides area, it was again fairly small but enough for our girls, they had a lovely time on all the rides which didn't cost any extra money. The only down side was there were lots of the £1 drive on or remote control type games which were dotted all over the park, I did find that hard as the girls were constantly asking to have a go on them when we were trying to have a cheap day out!! we limited it to just a couple of goes being as all the rest of the rides were free (except a couple which are mentioned in their brochure).
Then we went to the really wild show which lasted about 20 minutes. They showed a large spider the size of an adults hand, a snake and an owl. The owl flew out to the audience and sat on a stand it was quite impressive and the children were able to stay and see the animals close up afterwards.
One thing we nearly missed but just happend to notice on the map was Bunnies corner. It was at the back of the childrens rides area, behind that is a little entrance to an underground house of bunnies - they are large beatrix Potter type bunnies in their houses! there are little windows and doors to look through, again it's only small but the girls loved it!
All in all it was a great day out and we didn't leave until they were kicking us out at about 4.30pm!

Summary: Brilliant day out for the family