What to do in Ayr,Troon and surrounding area

jmabnc

Hi all, we are having a break in AYR on the 1st week of august can anyone reccommend things to do, places to eat etc for 3 adults 2 teens and 2 kids. thanks:beer:

The_One_Who

Have a look at this thread for some ideas.

tibbles209

Hi there

I live in Ayr so i know the place quite well. It really depends what the weather is like, if you get a nice sunny day then it would be worth taking a visit to the Heads of Ayr Farm Park, the kids would love it. All sorts of animals there including meerkats, camels, lemurs, wallabes and llamas and best of all you can hand feed them! For eating out, my very favourite restaurant is the Tudor restaurant. The food there is consistently fantastic but you may need to book a table in advance because it is very popular. If you like Indian food the best Indian restaurant in Ayr is the Rupee Room. They do a £5.99 3 course lunch on Saturday afternoons. Other things you could do is spend a day at the beach/ beachside swing park and go to Pirate Pete's indoor play centre (also by the beach) with the kids.

Im having trouble thinking of stuff for your teenagers to do. There are the usual cinema/bowling alley type places, but there also is a 'GO Ballistic Go Karting' centre nearby, although it might be a bit pricey.

Anyway that's me out of ideas, so I hope you have a great time whatever you end up doing :j x

jmabnc

thanks for the info, Tibbles can you recommend a good chinese :beer:

fishhawks

I think the royal blossom is still a good Chinese. Don't go to shanghi rendevous as it's not good. A good chinese takeaway is 88 which is in smith street opp the train station. Other good restaurants are the chestnuts a hotel on old racecourse road, checcini an Italian in Wellington square they have an early menu which is great value, for money saving mccabes opp the bus station is good.

Heads of ayr is fab, culzean castle which is national trust is great, when driving from ayr to culzean try the electric brae it's great, we always take our visitors there, basically it's an optical illusion, you think you are going down hill but the car rolls backwards.

Have fun in ayr!

ixia

Heads of Ayr park is a good day out.

arcadia3107

Burns Cottage is a must see but badly advertised, there is a whole new site built to finally get some recognition for our national bard. Belisle is still nice for a picnic/kick about, even though our rubbish council shut down the facilties there, Rozelle too. Auchincruive estate is lovely for a walk round but again not advertised!
Prestwick have a kidsplay indoor area but fairly expensive, the outdoor park beside it is clean and has ramps for skateboarding and picnic tables-beach is good standard too.
Culzean is great, kirkoswald has 'souter johnnies cottage', mauchline has different burns related sites but due roadworks shortly so might not be so good. If you have transport then the local activity centres have summer programmes on which the older kids would enjoy-leaflet prob at tourist information shop in sandgate.
Kilmarnock's Dean castle is also a great day out.
hope that helps?
just remembered that there is a big family fun day at dam park in ayr on the 4th.