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Kids garden slide

I'm looking for a slide to put in the garden for my 3 year old. I've looked on toysrus so far and found the slides are either too small or too expensive.

Any bargains or recommendations???

I'd maybe consider an activity centre if anyone can find one cheap enough (i.e. not £600 lol)

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  • quietheart
    quietheart Posts: 1,875 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    We've just bought the little tikes sturdy one from Woolies, reduced to £39.99 and our boys (2 and 4) love it http://www.woolworths.co.uk/wwstore/product.jhtml?op=details&product=30035162&op=details
    shows as £49.99 online but reductions are in store.
    PS i thanked you by mistake......doh
  • SaleHunter
    SaleHunter Posts: 93 Forumite
    Thanks for the link,

    To be honest, I was hoping for something a bit bigger (so I can get a shot too lol)
  • WelshLamb
    WelshLamb Posts: 835 Forumite
    I bought this one for my daughter for her 3rd birthday as she loves slides.

    ARGOS SLIDE

    It's not the most sturdy of slides (I havn't been confident enough to try, as it is quite thin plastic) but it's challanging for the little ones becuse it's fairly high. Only thing I feel is it comes to quite an abrupt stop at the bottom. I'm sure I've seen slide extensions that you can add to the bottom somewhere.

    As it's on offer at the moment, I think it's very good value for money, considering the prices on some. By it's size, it should last a good few years for my daughter too!

    Also quite a bit of assembling, notes on the instructions, takes two adults approx 1 hour to assemble.;)
    ;)
  • SaleHunter
    SaleHunter Posts: 93 Forumite
    Thats getting closer to what i'm looking for, my 3 year old loves the one at a swing park we take her to, it's about 8 foot high so I hold her hand on the way down. I guess this kind of height is better as she'd be able to use it unassisted.

    I was kidding about wanting a shot myself lol, but no doubt all the kids will try getting me to have a go.

    And i'm betting the box the slide comes in would make an ideal slide extension (without the added £9.99 expense for a bit of moulded plastic)

    Will keep looking around but this one's out in front at the moment.
  • amylou161202
    amylou161202 Posts: 459 Forumite
    Hi I bought the little tikes giant easy store slide recently for my three year old daughter and she loves it size is perfect think it suits age 3-6 years we got it from toys r us online and was half price reduced to £49.99 plus postage £4.95. I did check out other web sites prices before I bought it and cheapest i could find was £80-90 exc delivery costs
  • babybimbles
    babybimbles Posts: 868 Forumite
    rovers wrote:
    We've just bought the little tikes sturdy one from Woolies, reduced to £39.99 and our boys (2 and 4) love it http://www.woolworths.co.uk/wwstore/product.jhtml?op=details&product=30035162&op=details
    shows as £49.99 online but reductions are in store.
    PS i thanked you by mistake......doh

    sorry to hijack this thread ;) but is this easy to store if you want?
  • quietheart
    quietheart Posts: 1,875 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    sorry to hijack this thread ;) but is this easy to store if you want?

    it kinda folds in half, so it's still big but manageable - does that many any sense?!:think:
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