11 Best Activity Centres In Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire's eleven activity centres split along a line the county itself draws: water and air. The water half is the more surprising — Houghton Boats rents day boats on the Great Ouse at £15 a head, Adventure Nene runs paddle sports near Peterborough at a straight 5 rating, and between them they make a boat day one of the county's most distinctive family outings. The air half is anchored by Imperial War Museum Duxford, which is filed here as an activity venue and, at 5.0 with adult entry listed at £29.50, is comfortably the biggest single day out on this page — hangars, airfield and flying days that need a whole day and a weather check. Around those poles sit the indoor standbys: nine of the eleven venues have indoor space, including Fossils Galore in March, where children clean and identify real fossils, spy-mission games at Si5 in Cambridge, VR at ACTIV8 and pottery painting at Crafty Monkey. It is a short list, but an unusually well-differentiated one — almost nothing on it competes with anything else, which makes choosing easier than in counties with forty interchangeable soft-play barns.