Outdoor Activities in Bideford

Ratings give you a starting point — Milky Way Adventure Park sits highest of the three on this list, with The Big Sheep close behind — but the better question is what your children like. Rides, animals and indoor space are weighted differently at each. Read what each park actually contains rather than trusting the score, since a park that suits a seven-year-old may not suit a two-year-old at all.

Not casually. Skern Lodge Outdoor Activity Centre and Ultimate Adventure are instructed operations with their own arrangements, so they need contact well ahead and they set the timing rather than accepting yours. Once one is booked it becomes the spine of the day and everything else has to bend around it.

Treat Lundy Island as an expedition rather than an item — check exactly what a visit involves before you build anything around it, because it is a commitment of a different order. Clovelly Village is gentler but still a proper visit in its own right, and both work far better as the single thing you did than as one of three.

At the end, or on its own. Westward Ho! Beach requires no planning, no arrival time and no decision about how long you will stay, which makes it the right counterweight to a day built around one large attraction. It is also the sensible plan for the day after, when nobody can face another queue.