Alton Towers Resort, Chessington World of Adventures Resort, Thorpe Park, Legoland Windsor Resort, Warwick Castle, Cadbury World and The London Eye are among those offering money off
If you are wondering what to do with your kids as the summer holiday approaches, wonder no more.
National Rail has an excellent, money-saving scheme which delivers big savings on attractions across the UK. There is money off close to 500 different venues and events, so there’s a really good chance that there’ll be a bargain on offer in your neck of the woods.
You can score savings including two-for-one deals and a third-off entry to top attractions in and around Great Britain. To claim, you just have to take the train.
The scheme is designed to encourage people to get out of cars and onto the rails, a mode of transport that tends to be better for the environment.
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To take advantage of the discounts on offer, head to the National Rail website and choose an attraction. Then, download and print the vouchers you find there and use them to buy a ticket at the attraction, or buy a ticket online. Just make sure you save your train ticket to show at the box office.
There are a huge number of attractions taking part, with two-for-one deals on offer at dozens. Including:
- The Shards’ viewing gallery
- The Beatles Story Museum
- Tudor World
- Howletts Wild Animal Park
- Grand Pier Weston-super-Mare
- The Household Cavalry Museum
- Thinktank at Birmingham Science Museum
- The Cartoon Museum
- The Fashion and Textile Museum
Train travellers can also bag a third off many excellent days out. Theme park giant Merlin is taking part and is offering 33.3% off:
- Alton Towers Resort
- Chessington World of Adventures Resort
- Thorpe Park
- Legoland Windsor Resort
- Warwick Castle
- Cadbury World
- The London Eye
- Shrek’s Adventure! London
- Madame Tussauds Blackpool
- The Dungeons (York, Edinburgh, or Blackpool Tower
- The Blackpool Tower Eye
- LEGOLAND® Discovery Centres (Manchester or Birmingham)
- SEA LIFE Aquariums & Centres (Birmingham, Great Yarmouth, Loch Lomond, Blackpool, Brighton, Manchester, Scarborough, Hunstanton and Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park)
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If you love bargains and want to protect the environment, then there are other schemes that are worth checking out. Good Journey is a not-for-profit, sustainable travel company that is trying to change the way the world travels.
Championing car-free leisure travel across the UK, the independent organisation founded by Nat Taplin launched in 2018, with the support of a coalition of conservation and transport organisations. Good Journey actively promotes green travel and is built on the ethos of widening sustainable visitor travel across the UK and to broaden access to culture, heritage and leisure to everyone — not just those with a car.
According to Good Journey, around half of all CO2 emissions from tourist attractions come from visitors’ cars. Getting more visitors to arrive by bus, train, bike, or foot is therefore key to cutting those carbon emissions. The non-profit organization also hopes to open up access for the 22 percent of UK households without a car (roughly 15 million people).
The Good Journey website currently features more than 500 attractions across England, Wales and Scotland that you can reach car-free, each with detailed travel instructions and a door-to-door journey planner to the point where whether walking routes have pavements or even bus shelters to take refuge if it’s raining, are pointed out.
Available kid’s activities, places for shelter in case of bad weather, and views to look out for on your walk or train ride are also meticulously pointed out. The website can be used to search for discounted train tickets and quieter cycling routes as well.