Springfields fun park is a brilliant place for the family, there is lots to do, indoor play areas,…read moretrampoline area, pony rides, feeding the fish, rowing boats and more. The fish are so tame they even follow the rowing boats if you keep feeding them. Very well priced and we chose the £1 offer where you can return each day for the next 7 days just by paying a pound on your way out of the park. Very friendly staff and would go again. Excellent

Springfields is a fantastic place to take the kids for a day…read more There's so much to keep them occupied trampolines outside, a chance to pet and feed the small animals, pony rides, rowing boats to take out on their small lake, mini diggers for the kids to play with in the sandpit and lots of other fun activities! They also have a cafe and a lovely little shop to buy some springfields branded gifts in to take home! It really does make for a fun day out with the kids, and actually can be made to last all day without them getting bored, so well worth the entrance fee. Highly recommended!!!

Good kids play centre. Has a small cafe providing both drinks and tasty snacks, a soft play area…read moreand activities for under 4's plus a large assault course and activities for the over 4's (and keen parents ;o) ). There is a few video games, mini bowling and trampolines which are great fun! A good number of leather sofas and chairs around the area where you can sip on your drink. Great for a wet day activity if visiting the area.

My wife and I had taken up raze the roofs opportunity with their £1 morning toddler offer. The…read morecentre is clean and tidy and would appear to be freshly refurbished especially in the toilet area. Mr soapy hand soap which made washing hands fun for the kids, also a nice feature are paper towels handy for extra messes and got hands drier quicker than a noisy hand drier and can scare the children. We ordered coffee and bacon sandwich from the breakfast menu, which is also a new feature as well. The staff are happy and helpful and appear to enjoy the job as they also helped our son with arts and craft activity and added the picture to the art tree on the wall. We have now booked a birthday party too and will report back with our findings.

A lot of birds to look at with a well signposted recommended tour so you get to see them all. The…read moreflying shows are great and feeding the lorikeets is fun. Make sure you find one of their many vouchers before you turn up to make the rather high admission more palatable.

Paradise Park is great for bird lovers and also just for having a wander around with the kids as…read morewell! They even have penguins to amuse the younger ones and adults alike! They have some lovely indoor and outdoor play areas for kids including my kids favourite the ball pool. There is also a nice cafe, lots of room for having picnics in nice weather, and the kids get the chance to feel ponies, goats, sheep, rabbits and lots of other animals! There's loads of nice walks including woodland ones and basically just a whole lot of fun to be had! A great day out :)

Very good. Mostly undercover and enough to keep the kids busy for most of the days. A bit pricey,…read morebut that was offset by a 6 day return voucher!

This isn't a bad little zoo. Houses and works with the main animals you would expect in a zoo…read more Maybe one or two more different species would be nice but for what it is it's not too badly priced for what it is. To pass a few hours this is a nice thing to do in the heart of Cornwall.

We live nearby to twycross but much prefer this zoo. It's inexpensive and a far nicer place to walk…read morearound. Twycross has a huge amount of monkeys but they are mostly in little cages - at Newquay they've got their monkeys on a little open air island in a pond. There is no cage at all and they are contained by the water. It's this kind of feeling you get all round the zoo where they've obviously thought about the happiness of the animals as well as the paying public. You get very close to the animals, have Chipmunks crossing over your head in tubes. There are also play areas and places to have picnics. When we went I could have my hand stamped and nip back to the car to get my picnic stuff. They also have animal visits where they take smaller animals and reptiles round to schools and holiday parks. A really great place with caring staff.

5 out of 5 we just came of the rollercoaster and would like to say, jack the crew worker has been a…read morepleasure! He is funny and nice and accepts song requests he does his job perfectly overall a good place!!!!

Great for small kids - the indoor play area is AWESOME! The quantity of rides is a little…read moreunderwhelming, but what is there is great! Little roller coasters were good for the kids, as were the 'slides of death' inside. Bumper cars inside were a huge attraction to my kiddies as was the outside grounds. What was really good was the bird demonstration outside - falcons were swooping over our heads - really great! Especially for the kids.

This may not be a huge aquarium but it is lovely and does still take a while to work your way…read morearound. We took our son a while ago and he was totally transfixed by the fish, and we thoroughly enjoyed it as well. I was particularly taken with the sea horse and could have stood and watched them for ages. It does seem a bit expensive, but then a place like that must take some running. There was a cafe and shop with a wide range of gifts from pocket money to quite a bit more money. Definitely worth a look in with or without kids if you like fish, and the setting right next to the beach is beautiful too.

A good aquarium in Newquay with lots of facts to read and lots of interesting sea creatures to look…read moreat including sharks! They have a great gift shop with lots to choose from and a good cafe. The staff all around the aquarium are very friendly and helpful and give talks to people on the creatures and will answer any questions you have. The only downside I found was we got around a bit too quickly as with small children they didn't want to hear many of the details they just wanted to look at things, so perhaps best for older children I'd say if you want to make a day of it, as with small children you could be in and out in an hour which makes it expensive. x

We visited Buccaneer Bay (previously called Tunnels Through Time) whilst staying with family. We…read moretook a 4 year old boy and a 5 year old girl, both of whom thoroughly enjoyed it. You can either wander through on your own, or as we did, be led by Calico Jack the pirate guide! He was actually excellent, telling the stories of Cornwalls past in a way that engaged both the adults and kids, cracking jokes and being generally piratey! There is s slightly scarier section but with adults present it still wasn't too scary for the little ones, and adds a good entertainment portion to the stories that precede it. The sets and scenes were pretty good, and it was fairly atmospheric for what it was. It's not very big inside, but just big enough that the kids won't get bored. If they find the letters to make up the word of the day along the way they get to have a sweet 'treasure' at the end too, something else to keep them involved. Some of the free local guide leaflets have money off vouchers too that make a good dent on the entry price. When we visited (April 2010) they only accepted cash or cheques too. There's a pay car park just over the road that gives quick access to one of Newquay's beaches too if you want something else to do afterwards. If you go not expecting a day-long adventure but the interesting and entertaining diversion that it is, you won't be disappointed. One final point, the staff there were lovely, very helpful and friendly. I'd go back again.

What an absolutely brilliant bit of fun!! Sort of Madame Tussauds does pirates!! Cap'n Calico led…read moreus through, telling the stories of Cornwall's history..mainly of plague, death, pilfering and rum...you know how pirates are...he was excellent!! I think every home should have their own Cap'n Calico!! Our daughter, aged 6, was mesmerised and couldn't stop giggling after swearing the pirate's code and saying 'parle' like she was starring in the Pirate's of the Carribean films!! My two year old was a little weary of the 'scary man with a dirty face' but soon came around looking at the exhibitions and was totally thrilled at steering the Cap'n's wheel...I had to peel his fingers off it!! I cannot express how lovely the staff/owners were, taking time to chat to the children both before and after we went through, and they seemed genuinely passionate about both the attraction and pirates. The gift shop was great, although not massive, it catered for all ages and was very reasonably priced...my daughter was thrilled to have a 'gold' necklace with a Cornish Knocker pendant on it!! (less than £2!!). I don't think it would be suitable for disabled access as we did go up...and back down..stairs a few times - probably best to contact them before making a visit. The exit weirdly came out of the side of the building so we had to go back in the front door to use the toilets & gift shop etc. No hardship for us, but it was down another flight of steps, elderly people may struggle a little. I honestly must say it was a highlight of our week in Cornwall...and we visit several times a year, but would not hesitate on returning to Buccaneer Bay many times. Do take a look at their till...it wasn't working when we were there, but it was a work of art!! Well done Buccaneer Bay - simply brilliant!!!!

Excellent service from this company would highly recommend will be back once we go to Newquay…read moreagain. Excellent communication From mark too A****

This is a one-of-a-kind completely fabulous place. Jules the lady who runs it is so friendly and…read moreinspiring and welcoming. She runs a children's art club on Saturday mornings which is fantastic for the budding artist. Also does workshops for adults where you can just let your imagination flow, relax and have fun. She will also open by appointment to do children/baby hand and foot momentos. Can't recommend enough. And writing this has reminded me that I could do with an arty day - must give her a call!