Wookey Hole, Somerset

Want to reconnect with nature and try something new?

Why not head to Wells in Somerset and explore some deep underground caves with the kids? It is indoors so the perfect day out for this chilly weather.

Wells is this tiny village with beautiful scenery and about 1hr drive from Bath. You could easily make a weekend out of it if you wish. Wookey Hole is a network of underground caves with the River Axe flowing through it. Experienced guides will take you through the caves to explain the history and if lucky like we were, can be very entertaining for kids. The waters looked stunning in the lights. Wear appropriate footwear as it is wet. There are narrow and low passages so be careful. If you have bi adventurers, there's also other more daring activities you could do. Check out their website to find out more: https://www.wookey.co.uk . My kids are into these nature things so they loved going through tunnels and exploring caves.

Once you come out of the caves, you are faced with a dinosaur park with high dinosaur statues. Some are animated statues. You cold also go digging for fossils towards the end of the trail. Then right next to it, we have the Witches den with the 4D cinema. The movie lasts 15mins and differs each time, I believe.

By the time we had all this done, it was lunchtime so we headed to the diner which had nice hot food at a reasonable price and the food was decent.

We started the afternoon by playing the soft play which expanded over 2 huge rooms!  Right next to it was a games arcade and a hall where special shows happen (we watched a Circus Show). We spent the whole afternoon between these 3 areas as kids kept running from one room to another while I sometimes had to take a break from playing and running around behind 2 monkeys by cooling down with a cup of hot chocolate in the cafe where you can watch your kids from.

If there isn't a downpour, you can head outside to play some crazy golf. We are so bad at crazy golf but had a great time nevertheless. The theme was pirates and somehow all of us turned quite rowdy on that gold course because my youngest hate losing!

At the end of the day, we were exhausted but content that we managed to fit in a little bit of everything in 1 day.

We booked tickets online so that was a bit cheaper and stayed there the whole weekend so we had the chance to split this into 2 days and repeat some stuff. It was a weekend of no technology and it was worth every penny!