12 Best Adventure Days Out In Somerset and Bristol

Possibly, but never assume it. Every ropes operator sets its own minimum height, minimum age and adult supervision rules, and they differ enough between Adventure Bristol Tree Tops High Ropes, Mojo Active High Ropes Adventure and Vivary Adventure Centre that checking is the only sensible approach. Measure your child at home, because a rough figure carried in your head is not good enough. A child turned away at the harness has had a wasted journey and a bad memory of the place.

Indoor and outdoor space are both recorded, which is fair: there is a road through a gorge, there are caves underneath, and the two feel like separate outings. Underground means steps, uneven footing and air that stays cool whatever the day is doing above. Caves thrill some children and frighten a few, so mention what is coming instead of springing it on a nervous six-year-old at the entrance.

Hunters Lodge Inn is a pub that has landed on an adventure list, which is a data problem and no sort of recommendation. It has probably arrived here because of its associations with the caving country around it. Either way, do not put it on a shortlist expecting a session for children. We would rather flag the odd entry than quietly leave it looking like an option.

Not much of it, and saying otherwise would be padding. With ten of twelve marked outdoor, a ropes course or a walking route in heavy rain turns short and miserable. The caves at Cheddar Gorge & Caves are the exception, since underground stays underground however hard it rains, though getting to and from them does not. On a genuinely wet day, shift to a category with roofs instead of forcing this one.