Sno zone is located in the Milton Keynes Xscape Centre. We went by car, it's easy to find with lots…read moreof carparking spaces. We booked asession for my son as a present and for somthing different. He has skied before quite recently but I hadn't skied since I was at school. You are provided with skis, boot and poles with the price of the session. You can hire trousers and jackets, we wore our own waterproof ones. It is important that you take your own gloves as they DO NOT hire them and they are expensive to buy. Believe me you will need them as it is very cold inside the dome. We really enjoyed ourselves and since we have been have booka weeks ski in March.

Eh. I can't get that excited by Snozone, which is sad because that was pretty much the entire point…read moreof going. It is impressive - seeing a high slope covered in what appears to be something like snow in the middle of Milton Keynes is unexpected. However, this is the second time I'm trying skiing, and the first time was on a dry slope, so I can't comment really on the snow quality as some others have done. I was pretty psyched by the set up though. My main issue was the lesson. As complete beginners, my boyfriend and I booked onto one lesson to see if we would like it. In total, the lesson and clothing hire for both of us came to £90 - so basically quite a big deal for us. We were there mainly because when I left my previous work, they gave me a voucher as they knew we were considering trying skiing, so we didn't take the full whack, but it would clearly be a serious consideration if you wanted to do the whole course. I appreciate it must be expensive maintaining such a facility, but on the other hand, if you're going to commit to spending several hundred pounds on skiing lessons, I imagine you might as well just go on a skiing holiday. Basically I thought the lesson was way too slow. People have different learning levels, I get that, but really we did so little that it was hard to get really enthusiastic. In a 90 minute session, I would estimate that I went down a slope about 10 times - and by slope, I mean the lowest 15 metres of it. The vast majority of the lesson was spent waiting around. My only point of comparison is the lesson I had on a dry slope several years ago, where I distinctly remember being a lot freer to go down when I was confident enough, and we covered things like turning pretty early on, which didn't even get reached at Snozone. It was just quite a disappointing experience that neither felt like a special, exciting treat nor gave us much insight into whether we would like actual skiing. PLUS - just to note that apparently gloves are mandatory on the slope, which I don't think I saw on any of the booking materials. We happened to have brought some, but if you don't then you can't hire them there, so you'd have to buy them for £30.

I have been to many many gigs at the pitz over the years, some good, some not so…read more It is a venue that is housed in the local leisure centre and does smell of swimming pool! There is a small bar area with some bench seating and depending on the gig they sometimes leave out tables and chairs as well. The hall where the gigs are held is what is known as the theatre. There is a good size stage with good lighting and effects available. This venue is able to cater for all types of bands for instance local bands through to well known large outfits. I have found the bouncers to be rather heavy handed at times when there really has been no need. The whole place could do with a bit of a refurbishment now as it is a bit tired looking. Apart from the toilets which go way beyond that and I won't go into detail!!! The pitz allows teenagers to go into the gigs which means that young people can get to see bands locally and on the whole pretty safely. Lots of parking available.

excellent venue, laid back and enjoyableread more