Accessible Attractions in Norwich

Ask the venue, because the honest answer differs by site and by week. What you are after is the stretch when the hall is not yet full and staff are not yet stretched. At somewhere like Quasar Norwich, volume and crowding go together, so the same room can be manageable at one point in the day and impossible later on.

Not automatically. Norwich Cathedral and The Plantation Garden are calm, which helps enormously with sensory needs, but calm says nothing about surfaces, steps, seating or how far it is from where you park. Quiet and accessible are separate questions, and the second one belongs to the venue in the specific terms your family uses.

A great deal, at the sort of venue that fills with school groups and holiday clubs. Dotty Pottery and The Bug Parc are places where the make-up of the room shifts completely depending on the week. Ring and ask which parts of their week are quietest — most will tell you straight, and planning around the answer takes nothing away from the trip.

Ten of the twenty-two include outdoor space, from Sloughbottom Park BMX Track to Hillfield Nursery & Farm Shop and Norfolk Snowsports Club. Outdoors, timing is less about crowds and more about light and ground underfoot. Both change through the year and neither is recorded on a listing, so ask close to your visit rather than well ahead of it.