9 Best Sports & Activity Venues In Cambridgeshire

On the drive and on the session, not on the numbers we hold. Cambridge Ice Arena and Planet Ice Arena Peterborough are far enough apart in score that it looks like a ranking, but a public session at either is much the same for a beginner: cold, crowded round the edges and far easier with a skate aid. Ask each about beginner sessions, since that is what actually decides how the afternoon goes.

Nine is our count under this heading, and that is a narrower statement than it first appears. Cambridgeshire is not short of sport. It is short of sport catalogued as a family attraction. Club pitches, council leisure centres and the swimming programmes most children actually use rarely surface on a page like this. Treat the nine as the turn-up-and-have-a-go end and go to your local authority for everything else.

It matters for what to expect from the page rather than from the county. A heading called sports and activities reads as fresh air, and our Cambridgeshire records point almost entirely the other way: rinks, a climbing wall, indoor play and a virtual reality site. So it reads as a strong bad-weather page and a weak summer one, and it works best alongside the parks and country parks listings when the forecast is kind.

Clip n Climb Cambridge is the gentlest introduction of the group in shape if not in height, because sessions are short and nothing has to be learned in advance. Big Sky Adventure Play is the answer for a younger sibling who is climbing nothing at all. Between them they cover most of a mixed-age family, which is more than any single entry on this short page manages on its own.