Will you make the leaderboard or wipe yourself out? Find out a Ninja Warrior Gloucester. Hack the Cotswold hills with Tumpy Green Equestrian Centre. Or try just about anything at Cotswold Water Park, including kayaking, paddleboarding, open-water swimming, fishing, sailing, and cycling.
Into gaming? Go back in time at Retro Collective, a two-floor attraction in Stroud comprising two hands-on retro technology and gaming museums, The Cave and Arcade Archive. This is nostalgia dialled up to 11. Or get active climbing the boulders and walls at The Warehouse.
Catch the latest flicks at the Electric Picture House cinema in Wotton-under-Edge. Ride the Perrygrove Railway through the lovely Forest of Dean (bring the dog). Or get down to Cattle Country Farm Park, with two huge indoor play barns, friendly farm animals to meet, and acres of outdoor play.
Meet over 50 flocks and herds of farm animals at Cotswold Farm Park, plus fun rides, the sheepdog show, live lambing in spring, and messy play. See over 500 flamingos, pelicans, parrots and kookaburras at Birdland. Find out what it’s like to fly a Vulcan bomber at the Jet Age Museum. Or get creative at Paint-a-Pot in Nailsworth.
Feel ready to take on the world, or at least the summit of Cleeve Hill, after a spa day at Calcot Manor. Rejuvenated? The Cotswold Way’s just a 15-minute walk from the door: pack a picnic for Coaley Peak and enjoy the views. Or come in May for the Cooper’s Hill cheese-rolling, where contestants chase a wheel of Double Gloucester downhill.
Choose from a number of locations around the Cotswolds when you book with the Cotswold Clay Club, or pick from fantastic golf courses at Minchinhampton, Cotswold Edge, and Painswick. Recover your composure with a pint in the tap room at Stroud Brewery, open all week.
Up for adventure? Take a glider flight from the Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club to anything up to a mile above sea level. Head into Bath to devour a history dating back to Roman times: sink into rooftop spa waters at Thermae Bath Spa, see the Roman Baths, and shop unique Pultney Bridge.
Visit Berkeley Castle, Gloucester Cathedral and Woodchester Mansion (watch out for the bats). Or come for the big events: the Cheltenham Festival (horse-racing), the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the Badminton Horse Trials, or Glastonbury music festival. Spend your evenings with cocktails at the Ivy Bath Brasserie or The Hideout.
