7 Best Activities In Gillingham

Royal Engineers Museum, for most families. It is the substantial one here, with enough hardware and enough story to hold children who would normally last about twenty minutes in a museum. Follow it with something physical, because it is a looking-and-reading day rather than a running-about one.

Two options sit on this list. Splashes Leisure Centre is the indoor one and Strand Leisure Pool is open-air, which makes the second a warm-day choice rather than a year-round habit. Arrangements differ between the two, so a quick check before you set out saves an argument in the car park.

Chatham Ski and Snowboard Centre is the answer most Medway parents give. It puts a nine-year-old or a fourteen-year-old on a slope without anybody leaving Kent, and they will talk about it afterwards. Planet Ice Gillingham does a similar job on skates, for families who prefer to stay level.

Toddler Town Gillingham is built for exactly that age and is the only entry here aimed squarely at pre-schoolers. Forrester's Pottery can also work at two, provided nobody minds what comes home, since the appeal at that age is sitting down and making a mess in company.