5 Best Adventure Days Out In West Sussex

For one outing, certainly. Go Ape Crawley is a real booked session and children finish it properly tired. Across two days, no — five entries will not carry a weekend, and pretending otherwise produces a second afternoon that disappoints everybody. Make it the high point of Saturday, then let Sunday belong to some other heading altogether.

A circuit of streets with clues attached, walked at your own speed with nobody watching over you. Nothing opens, nothing closes, and no one expects you at a particular hour, so it slots either side of lunch or a shop in a way a ticketed attraction cannot. The flipside is that the streets have to hold their share of the interest, which argues for choosing somewhere you would enjoy strolling through regardless.

The climbing time plus a generous margin at each end for turning up early, being kitted out, and sitting through the briefing nobody may skip. In practice that consumes half a day, not all of it, and children come down hungry. Take the earliest slot on offer: it leaves the remaining hours usable instead of ending the outing at the point when everyone has already run flat.

A trail plus something else, yes, because trails have no start time and bend around anything. Two trails in one day asks too much walking of most families. And putting a harness session and a trail back to back overestimates how much energy children keep in reserve — the workable shape puts the demanding thing first and something gentle after it.