Winter Wonderlands and in-store/shopping centre Christmas entertainment

Former_MSE_Andrea

How are the Winter Wonderlands and Shopping Centre Christmas experiences near you for you and your kids?

Please could you:

• Tell us where it is
• Link to it
• Rate it out of 5 (1 poor, 5 fantastic)

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tea_lover

Not even a please.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Totally right tea lover. I posted this really quickly to get it in the Deals Team's update of the Kids Guide ready for tonight's weekly email.

I'll update the post.

Please

Former_MSE_Rhiannon

We'd love to hear about the Hyde Park, Cardiff, Manchester, Glasgow and Balleygawley Christmas experiences if anyone's visited and thought it was good value and good fun! Thanks

Dizzy_Ditzy

I went to Hyde park winter wonderland a few weeks ago. It's pretty but dear lord it's expensive :eek:

Most, if not all the play stand things were a minimum of a fiver for a go. The selling stands weren't selling anything I couldn't get cheaper elsewhere or even attracted my attention for prettiness. £4.50 for 4 doughnuts that weren't even that great tasting.

Former_MSE_Rhiannon

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

I went to Hyde park winter wonderland a few weeks ago. It's pretty but dear lord it's expensive :eek:

Most, if not all the play stand things were a minimum of a fiver for a go. The selling stands weren't selling anything I couldn't get cheaper elsewhere or even attracted my attention for prettiness. £4.50 for 4 doughnuts that weren't even that great tasting.

But did you have fun? I guess that's the main thing! :j

Dizzy_Ditzy

MSE_Rhiannon wrote: »

But did you have fun? I guess that's the main thing! :j

It wasn't raining...

lady1964

We went to Hyde Park winter wonderland on Friday & Saturday with 2 different groups.

Yes it's expensive, it was packed on Saturday and a little less busy on Friday. Rides cost a fortune, food & drink is expensive too but yes, we had fun walking around (a little bit of rain on Friday, none on Saturday to speak of).

I don't know if it's possible to take your own food & drink in, we didn't & I don't recall seeing people having a pic-nic.

I think it would be difficult to take kids over the age of 5 and have a cheap day. I don't consider it value for money, not at £1 per token & rides wanting a minimum of 5 in a lot of cases.