21 Best Sports & Activity Venues In Glasgow and Strathclyde

Pick on convenience and on what your children like looking at. Celtic Park Stadium Tour is flagged with indoor and outdoor space, so part of it happens out in the bowl itself; Ibrox Stadium Tour is flagged indoor only, which points to more time in the corridors, the rooms and the history. Both rate very highly. Neither holds a child with no interest in football whatsoever, and both run as guided groups you cannot easily peel away from once you have started.

You check in, you sign something, you sit through a briefing, and only then do you drive. That sequence is why the visit takes longer than the track time suggests, and why arriving late costs you more than a few minutes. TeamSport Indoor Karting Cambuslang and TeamSport Indoor Karting Clydebank both apply their own rules on height and age, so confirm your youngest is eligible before booking rather than at the desk. Wear something you do not mind creasing under a race suit.

Mugdock Country Park is the only obvious answer here. Indoor and outdoor space are both listed against it, which means food and shelter on site rather than a drive to find them, and the rest is paths, woods and open ground you can spend as long on as your children have energy for. Everything else on this list is a unit of time you book: Climbzone, RollerStop Roller Rink and Unit 23 Skatepark are all sessions, excellent ones, but they end when they end.

It turns on the timing of your visit and on how much your child has ridden before. Unit 23 Skatepark and RollerStop Roller Rink both rate well, and both are places where a confident child thrives and a nervous one gets in the way of faster traffic. Ask what provision is made for first-timers, take a helmet and pads rather than assuming they are handed out, and treat the first visit as a look rather than a whole afternoon.