Meet a gentle giant or a make a furry friend this Easter. Put the wet Winter behind you and embrace Spring with a visit to the best Children’s Farm and Play Barn in the Midlands. Easter Bunny will be with us from Saturday 23rd March until (and including) Easter Monday. There’s all the usual farm fun included in your ticket … collect an egg, feed the animals, tractor-trailer ride, sit-on and groom a pony, meet the creepy critters and MUCH MUCH more. We will be continuing with our lamb bottle feeding sessions, too! Book a JUST FARM visit or upgrade your visit with a COMBI ticket that includes the Big Play Barn. Booking is essential for the whole of the Bank Holiday weekend … Book here
Free mum entry on Mother’s Day. It’s super simple … book here for Just Farm or Combi, leaving off mum. Then on the door, ask for a free mum entry. ONE free mum per booking, please. Only available on Sunday 10th March
Monday to Friday during the February Half Term Holidays, we have a special play first COMBI ticket which is only £1 more than our standard play first ticket (£2 more for adults). This means you get a cooked breakfast in the play barn on arrival, up to 10am. There’s plenty of time to play too before going onto the farm to walk off those calories as this is a COMBI ticket with play and farm included.
The breakfast is any choice of 4 items for the children and 8 items for the adults from a freshly cooked buffet of all your favourites. Drinks are not included!
THIS OFFER IS ONLINE BOOKINGS ONLY. PLEASE DON’T ASK AT THE DOOR YOU’LL SEE THE BOOKING SLOT AT THE TOP OF THE CALENDAR, MONDAY TO FRIDAY … click here to check availabilty
In the post-Christmas holiday period from reopening on 27th December to when schools go back, we have our best ever school-holiday COMBI price. This is available as a pre-booking at £12.95 per child and £12.95 per adult. You can come and go from the play barn and farm throughout the day. With most the farm undercover too, it’s a whatever-the-weather winner!
We know money is tight and therefore our bookings are NO-RISK as should you have any problems on the day that mean you can’t make it, we wil support you with a re-booking or a cancellation with refund.
BOOKING OPEN: our Christmas event is running every weekend in December plus Friday 22nd. Quieter, mid-week “school-day” sessions available Monday 18th to Thursday 21st December. You can get to booking by clicking below or read on if you’d like more information.
We offer a welcoming, farm-based experience (so a real animal Nativity) and a friendly team of staff borrowed from the North Pole. Your family will have one-to-one time with Santa during their visit which also includes all the usual farm activities as well. Allow 2 hours to include the farm and the Christmas activities and approx 4 hours if you are getting a COMBI ticket that includes the play barn.
If you don’t know us too well, then here’s a guide to a visit and the different ticket types:
The FIRST thing to know is that on our booking calendar you book a start time (your entry time) and that things flow from there. Please treat all timings as advisory … we know that our visitors enjoy some flexibility and we also know that sometimes people arrive late; so, don’t worry, we are very relaxed and helpful! There’s not a fixed time to visit Santa, so don’t panic if you are running late. Our staff will guide you as to the best time once you are here.
The SECOND thing to know is that if you want to enjoy the play barn as an add-on to your farm visit, you book a ticket labelled COMBI. Our play barn is huge and we allow 2 hours to play (and eat from the cafe should you wish to). You can only visit the play barn once during your time with us, but you can re-enter the farm. So, some families will have a play break in the middle … but watch closing times on the farm as we do put the animals to bed early in the winter! On a standard COMBI, you’d visit the play barn after the farm (and Santa) but we also do a cheaper Play-First, see below!
So, the ticket types are … PLAY FIRST COMBI, JUST FARM and PLAY AFTER COMBI (or standard COMBI). The PLAY FIRST COMBI starts in the play barn and then you go onto the farm (it’s a cheaper COMBI ticket and starts relatively early in the day). JUST FARM is entry to the farm only (so no play barn); and finally, PLAY AFTER COMBI starts at the farm and then you can finish in the play barn or break your day with the play barn and revisit the farm after. The farm closes about 4pm but the play barn stays open until 6.30pm.
Can I visit the farm without seeing Santa? Yes you can! You’ll see some of the tickets at certain times that are “without the Christmas Event”. They are limited to specific calendar slots but remember if the time isn’t quite right, it’s fine to be a bit early or late. Our entry times just help us spread visitors it’s not a strict appointment time!
Activity times: all our activities like Sit on a Pony and Tractor Trailer Ride rotate through the day. Father Christmas is with us most of the day and the staff will guide you as to when best to go into the event barn/grotto. We can’t guarantee no queues but our staff work hard to minimise that.
Hurrah, it’s our favourite season. We’ve special events on at the farm to see you through to the New Year.
Tickets are now available for Halloween and Christmas events. Events posters and flyers to follow.
During event days, we sell 3 main ticket types for the events. The additional cost for the events varies a little depending on the ticket but is about £7/£8 per child extra and about £3 per adult extra. It is also possible to book a standard visit (not including the event). Check the booking calendar and look for the standard slots spread through the day.
For more info about the ticket types, see below, but to jump straight to booking click here
Just Farm + EventTicket: an unlimited farm visit where you can spend time on the farm and visit the event barn at a time of your choice once you are inside the attraction. All the usual farm activities are on as well as the event. Allow about 2.5 hours.
Play First Combi + Event Ticket: this extends the above ticket with a visit to the play barn. It’s our cheapest ticket to include the play barn because you go to the play barn FIRST, in the morning. It’s usually a bit calmer and it’s cheaper than the standard “play after combi”. Please note, you can take a couple of hours in the play barn if you wish but you can’t re-enter the play barn once you’ve started your farm visit. Allow about 4.5 hours.
Play After Combi + Event Ticket: also extends your farm+event ticket to include the play barn but this time the play is AFTER the farm. The booking system shows approximate/guidance times for arrival in the play barn, but it really is up to you. Spend as long as you like on the farm and then present your combi ticket at the play barn and you get a 2 hour play session. Allow about 4.5 hours.
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