Think like many people I look at the summer holidays as a double edged sword, on one hand, I love the kids being off (well at least for the first 10 days) but I'm always in a quandary what to do with them, everything is so expensive, even a cinema trip these days needs a few gold teeth ripped out & sent to cash4gold! Back in my day I was happy with a bag of chips in newspaper so I could read it whilst I ate & a stick to whack around aimlessly, but I'm told by my kids that's why I've ended up chubby with inky & splinter filled fingers, they want more out of life it seems. Anyway since I'm waffling, I've put together a few offers / ideas / deals & freebies for the summer hols, hope they help & feel free to add any you know of!
Top comments
lianne21
15 Jul 164#19
Awww what a nice thoughtful thread op.
I think we should have a whip round to buy you a donkey. :smiley:
wishihadadonkey
15 Jul 164#1
Hotels
ibis
Travelodge Current Offer is 400,000 Hotel Rooms at £35 or Less HERE
Premier Inn
Earnaway - Hotel & Cashback rolled into one
Bewdley Museum, Worcs Free Entry Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Free Entry Other Birmingham Museums inc Science This summer, kids go free at Birmingham Museums Heritage Sites and Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. (Terms and Conditions apply).
From Saturday 20 August – Sunday 4 September, we’re offering free entry for up to 2 children (under 16 years) per adult paying the full adult rate, at Birmingham Museums sites - print off voucher on link Dudley Museum & Art Gallery Thanks to Breslau
It took me from 12.15pm yesterday until I posted to put this thread together, I didn't see his post until just now, I have already done a few of these threads ie my Free things to do in london a few days ago & my Scotland one a month or so ago, so hardly a blatant rip off
All comments (94)
wishihadadonkey
15 Jul 164#1
Hotels
ibis
Travelodge Current Offer is 400,000 Hotel Rooms at £35 or Less HERE
Premier Inn
Earnaway - Hotel & Cashback rolled into one
Bewdley Museum, Worcs Free Entry Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Free Entry Other Birmingham Museums inc Science This summer, kids go free at Birmingham Museums Heritage Sites and Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. (Terms and Conditions apply).
From Saturday 20 August – Sunday 4 September, we’re offering free entry for up to 2 children (under 16 years) per adult paying the full adult rate, at Birmingham Museums sites - print off voucher on link Dudley Museum & Art Gallery Thanks to Breslau
Tyne & Wear Museums inc Arbeia Roman Fort & Museum, Discovery Museum, Stephenson Railway Museum, Great North Museum: Hancock, Laing Art Gallery, Shipley Art Gallery - All FREE, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum - Children under 16 - FREE
Adults - £5.95
Concessions (over 60s & students) - £3.95
Oxford Museums Free Entry to; Oxford University Museum Natural History , Pitts River Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Museum of the History of Science.
Botanic Garden - Adult day ticket £5, concession day ticket £3.50. Free to children in full-time education (when accompanied by a paying adult), registered disabled visitors and their carers, University and OUP employees, Oxford and Oxford Brookes students
Buy a 90 Day Kids Pass Membership for £1 Gives you access to hundreds of UK attractions with some deep savings which can be anywhere up to 57% off, which includes theme parks, bowling, family days out, indoor and outdoor activities, adventure parks, aquariums, zoos, cinemas and much more
Tenpin Bowling Half price bowling and selected drinks from 6pm on Tuesdays
South West Trains Offers Virgin Trains Family Ticket Offer - One bargain fixed-price Family ticket for a family of any size (minimum of 1 adult and 1 child, up to a maximum of 2 adults and 4 children). So the more there are of you, the more you'll save. Psst. Don't worry, you won't have to prove you're related. You can travel anywhere on our network along the West Coast Mainline as long as you're travelling to/from London Euston.
This Family ticket is super flexible. Just reserve your outbound journey with our Anytime return and come back within a month of your outbound date. Booking available now up until 3 September 2016
Just heat for the effort. Shame I can't find any rooms tho!
psychobitchfromhell
15 Jul 162#8
It's too late for summer but if you live in Bradford area and need something to entertain the kids during the holidays there are still paces available at police camp for October . Cannot recommend this strongly enough . Mine loved it https://policecamps.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/
CoolElectronics to psychobitchfromhell
15 Jul 163#11
I believe if your from Liverpool police cells are always ready available :smirk:
![Fresh Breakfast Meat Box (Using code) @ Campbells Meat [Haggis / Lorne Sausage / Bacon / Black Pudding & More]](/images/topics/208684_1.jpg)
![[Xbox One] Q. u. b. e: Director's Cut on Deals with Gold](/images/topics/208716_1.jpg)
Opening post
Top comments
I think we should have a whip round to buy you a donkey. :smiley:
ibis
Travelodge Current Offer is 400,000 Hotel Rooms at £35 or Less HERE
Premier Inn
Earnaway - Hotel & Cashback rolled into one
Various FREE Museums
Free Entry to National Railway Museums at York & Shildon in County Durham
Museum of Lancashire, Preston Free Entry
Lancaster City Museum Free Entry
Lancashire Infantry Museum Free Entry
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Free Admission though there are car parking charges
Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds Free Entry
Leeds City Museum
Hull's Museums inc Maritime Free Entry to ALL
Bradford Museums All Free Entry
Sheffield Museums Free Entry to ALL
Northampton Museums All Free Entry
Leicester museums Free Entry to All
Derby Museums All Free
RAF Museum Cosford Free Entry though car parking charges apply
Bewdley Museum, Worcs Free Entry
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Free Entry
Other Birmingham Museums inc Science This summer, kids go free at Birmingham Museums Heritage Sites and Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. (Terms and Conditions apply).
From Saturday 20 August – Sunday 4 September, we’re offering free entry for up to 2 children (under 16 years) per adult paying the full adult rate, at Birmingham Museums sites - print off voucher on link
Dudley Museum & Art Gallery Thanks to Breslau
Young Archaeologists' and Curators' Club (YACC) at Black Country Living Museum Free holiday club Weds afternoons in school hols - need to book
Coventry Transport Museum Free Entry - The largest collection of
British road transport in the world
The Potteries Museum Stoke-on-Trent Free Entry
West Cheshire Museums Some Free - Some with a small charge
Imperial War Museum, Manchester Free Entry
Greater Manchester Police Museum Free Entry
Museum Of Transport - Greater Manchester Adults £4, Over 60's / Students / Jobseekers £2, Under 16's Free when with an adult
Bolton Steam Museum Free
Bolton Aquarium & Museum Free Entry to Both
Greater Manchester Museums Most Free - Small Charge for some
People's History Museum, Manchester Free Entry
Museum Of Science & Industry, Manchester Free Entry
Manchester Museum Free Entry
National Football Museum, Manchester Free Entry
National Museums Liverpool A group of free museums and galleries housing varied collections inc Maritime Museum - All Free
Victoria Gallery & Museum Free Entry
Tate Liverpool Free Entry
All comments (94)
ibis
Travelodge Current Offer is 400,000 Hotel Rooms at £35 or Less HERE
Premier Inn
Earnaway - Hotel & Cashback rolled into one
Various FREE Museums
Free Entry to National Railway Museums at York & Shildon in County Durham
Museum of Lancashire, Preston Free Entry
Lancaster City Museum Free Entry
Lancashire Infantry Museum Free Entry
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Free Admission though there are car parking charges
Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds Free Entry
Leeds City Museum
Hull's Museums inc Maritime Free Entry to ALL
Bradford Museums All Free Entry
Sheffield Museums Free Entry to ALL
Northampton Museums All Free Entry
Leicester museums Free Entry to All
Derby Museums All Free
RAF Museum Cosford Free Entry though car parking charges apply
Bewdley Museum, Worcs Free Entry
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Free Entry
Other Birmingham Museums inc Science This summer, kids go free at Birmingham Museums Heritage Sites and Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. (Terms and Conditions apply).
From Saturday 20 August – Sunday 4 September, we’re offering free entry for up to 2 children (under 16 years) per adult paying the full adult rate, at Birmingham Museums sites - print off voucher on link
Dudley Museum & Art Gallery Thanks to Breslau
Young Archaeologists' and Curators' Club (YACC) at Black Country Living Museum Free holiday club Weds afternoons in school hols - need to book
Coventry Transport Museum Free Entry - The largest collection of
British road transport in the world
The Potteries Museum Stoke-on-Trent Free Entry
West Cheshire Museums Some Free - Some with a small charge
Imperial War Museum, Manchester Free Entry
Greater Manchester Police Museum Free Entry
Museum Of Transport - Greater Manchester Adults £4, Over 60's / Students / Jobseekers £2, Under 16's Free when with an adult
Bolton Steam Museum Free
Bolton Aquarium & Museum Free Entry to Both
Greater Manchester Museums Most Free - Small Charge for some
People's History Museum, Manchester Free Entry
Museum Of Science & Industry, Manchester Free Entry
Manchester Museum Free Entry
National Football Museum, Manchester Free Entry
National Museums Liverpool A group of free museums and galleries housing varied collections inc Maritime Museum - All Free
Victoria Gallery & Museum Free Entry
Tate Liverpool Free Entry
Adults - £5.95
Concessions (over 60s & students) - £3.95
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens Free Entry
National Glass Centre, Sunderland Free Entry
SCOTLAND
Free Places to Visit / Things to Do in Scotland Mega Thread
Tall Ship (Glasgow) Free Entry
Half-price family pass (4 people) and Finding Dory Screening (4 people) at Loch Lomond SEALIFE £43.40
50% Off Loch Lomond Sealife Family Pass
WALES
Swansea Museum Free Entry
St Fagans National History Museum, near Cardiff Free Entry
National Wool Museum Free Entry
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea Free Entry
National Slate Museum Free
National Roman Legion Museum Free
National Museum Cardiff Free
Big Pit National Coal Museum Free
The Cardiff Story Free
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge Free
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge Free
Colchester + Ipswich Museums Some Free - Some have a charge ie Colchester Castle
Natural History Museum, Tring Free Entry
Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton Area Free Entry
Brighton Toy Museum - £14 Family Ticket for 2 Adults & upto 3 Kids
LONDON
Mega Thread of Free Things to Do / Visit in London
Royal Armouries Museum, Fareham Free
Cumberland House Natural History Museum, Portsmouth Free
Portsmouth Museum Free
Oxford Museums Free Entry to; Oxford University Museum Natural History , Pitts River Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Museum of the History of Science.
Botanic Garden - Adult day ticket £5, concession day ticket £3.50. Free to children in full-time education (when accompanied by a paying adult), registered disabled visitors and their carers, University and OUP employees, Oxford and Oxford Brookes students
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery Free
Maidstone Museum Free
Reading Museum & Riverside Museum Both Free
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum Free
Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro Adults £5.60, Kids under 16 go Free
St Agnes Museum, Cornwall Free
Plymouth City Museum + Art Gallery Free
Bristol Museums All of these are Free to enter
Royal Albert Memorial Museum + Art Gallery, Exeter Free
Link to Lightwater Vallery Special Offers inc money off food & drink vouchers & save £10 when you book online
Lightwater Valley 1 Day Ticket + FREE Ride Queue Jump over 1 metre £20, under £5
Register at [email protected] to receive at least 6 emails per year offering discount offers for Drusillas zoo every year
Gullivers World
Buy a 90 Day Kids Pass Membership for £1 Gives you access to hundreds of UK attractions with some deep savings which can be anywhere up to 57% off, which includes theme parks, bowling, family days out, indoor and outdoor activities, adventure parks, aquariums, zoos, cinemas and much more
Tenpin Bowling Half price bowling and selected drinks from 6pm on Tuesdays
Free Entry for Blue Peter Badge Holders to over 200 attractions including Merlin group with a paying adult credit to myusernamehasgone234
Pet At Home FREE Workshops for you and your children Need to book
Movies For Juniors - Most weekend / School holiday mornings at selected Cineworld cinemas. £2.00 for an adult or child. 10% less if you are a Cineworld member which is free to join
Odeon Kids £2.50
Vue Cinema Mini Mornings from £1.99 pp
Reg with Vue Super Tuesdays to get 1/3 off Adult cinema tickets on Tuesdays
Cheap Family Tickets at Vue Cinemas
Collect Nectar Points? Swap for cheap cinema tickets, meals out & lots more
Tesco Clubcard offers
BFG Dream Jar Trail in London now until 31st August
Get your 2nd Day FREE with Alton Towers Holidays or 2 Days + 3rd Day Free
Kids Eat Free Sundays & Bank Holiday Mondays at Crowne Carveries
Pick up a Tasty Rewards Card to get Points every time you eat at a Table Table or Whitbread Inn Get 5 points for every £1 you spend - 500 Points gets you 2 free main meals. Other offers with card include Every Sunday after 2pm, Mums can get their Main, or their Sunday Roast absolutely free with the purchase of another Main or Sunday Roast at Table Table
2 Kids Can Eat Breakfast for Free when one adult purchases a £8.99 breakfast meal
kids eat free all summer at Handmade Burger Company credit to VincentGo
Kids Eat Free This Summer at Bella Italia
30% Off Food This Summer at Bella Italia
Kids eat Free + Free Kids Entry Voucher with Full Paying Adult to Alton Towers or Chessington World of Adventures at Frankie & Benny's
Members of the Armed Forces Can get 30% off Longleat Tickets & 25% Off Cheddar Gorge Tickets
Spend £10 in Fayre & Square between Monday & Friday & 1 Child can play FREE in Wacky Warehouse - Spend £20 & 2 Kids can play free & so on
Kids eat free in morrisons cafe feed a family of 4 for £9.00 including drinks (Now MON - SAT from 3pm )
credit to Derek_Duval
Drayton Manor discounts
Legoland Holiday Offers
Chessington Holiday Discounts
Paulton's Park Short Breaks 2 days for 1
Kids Experience Days
Theatre Tickets from £15
Eden Project Locals Pass / The Eden Project
Discounted Tickets for Eden Project if you arrive by foot, cycle, bus or train
Harry Potter Tour
2 for 1 Day Tickets with Voucher Code @ Flamingoland
One Child goes FREE with Every Paying Adult with Printable Voucher @ Bristol Zoo
Up to 24% off Entrance to Paradise Wildlife Park
Up To 45% Off Entrance To The British Wildlife Centre, Surrey
Cotswold Country Park and Beach
Upto 29% Off The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Bucks
Free Tesco Cooking Courses Booking Required
Free Tennis Couses for Kids Booking required
Corfe Castle Model Village - Family Ticket (up to 2 adults & 3 children) £12.00
KidZania London After 2pm Saver + Adults Go FREE
Sky Garden - FREE (Advanced booking required)
ibis Happy Monday deal - book on Mon/Tue & stay Fri / Sat /Sun from £25 a night credit to boyaloud
15% Off ALL Gift Experiences @ Tesco Direct
Save 55% Off Drayton Manor Tickets in July! £17.65 @ 365 tickets credit to alikcan
Blackpool Zoo Membership - unlimited visits until 31st December 2016 only £34 adult, £25 child, family of 4 £107, Family of 5 £127 credit to boyaloud
Half Price Family Ticket to Knowsley Safari Park now £27.50
Half-price family ticket (2 adults 2 kids) to Twinlakes Theme Park
Half-price family ticket to Wheelgate Theme Park
Half Price Family Ticket 2 adults and 2 children (up to the age of 12) for Blue Planet Aquarium, Cheshire Oaks
Tweddle Farm Family Price for £12
Half Price Family Ticket to the Llama Park, East Sussex
Half Price Peak time family pass (2 Adults and 2 children) to WaterWorld Indoor Tropical Aqua Park - Stoke on Trent
English Heritage August 2 for 1 Offer credit to trilogy2k
Join Bermuda National Trust Family ~£26 valid for use in National Trust UK locations credit to deanos
National Trust AND English Heritage Membership £45 for a FAMILY!! @ Heritage New Zealand - gives Free Access to UK National Trust and English Heritage Sites. credit to samspud
National Express midweek travel - £3 of Tesco Clubcard vouchers (plus £1 booking fee) credit to Chanchi32
DreamWorks Tours Shrek’s Adventure! + River Red Rover Cruise London £26 pp
2 Vue cinema tickets or 2 pizzas at PizzaExpress for 1,000 Nectar points credit g4cox
Download Burger King App for lots of special offers credit andreocean
Gift Experiences from BuyAGift always check for discount vouchers HERE
Up to 55% off London Time Tours + kids under 5 go free
Buy an Adult Ticket for Ripleys London & Get a Kids Ticket for £1 - What's Included:
FREE Fast Track entry to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! London
Plus entry to Ripley’s Marvellous Mirror Maze and Ripley’s Impossible Laser Race.
2 for 1 Entry to Dudley Zoo with voucher credit clungepie
15% Off Kensington Palace Tickets + Kids Go Free
Entry to the London Bridge Experience and Tombs: £13.50 for an Adult or Child Ticket (Up to 50% Off)
Applejacks adventure park warrington £24 (usually £44) for family of 4 credit to Sam11387 - check Groupon Voucher codes HERE
Harry Potter Walking Tour for 2
10% off Friends & Family Railcard code expires 3rd Set 2016
South West Trains Offers
Virgin Trains Family Ticket Offer - One bargain fixed-price Family ticket for a family of any size (minimum of 1 adult and 1 child, up to a maximum of 2 adults and 4 children). So the more there are of you, the more you'll save. Psst. Don't worry, you won't have to prove you're related. You can travel anywhere on our network along the West Coast Mainline as long as you're travelling to/from London Euston.
This Family ticket is super flexible. Just reserve your outbound journey with our Anytime return and come back within a month of your outbound date. Booking available now up until 3 September 2016
2 for 1 Entry Offers when you travel by train - it doesn't have to be a long journey!
Check to see if your train ticket would be valid for 2 for 1 Entry Discounts
Merlin Annual Pass
https://policecamps.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/