We were both super excited as we turned off the main road and saw all the signs for Diggerland! Before we even got to the main entrance Mini Mumbler had shouted “look Mummy there’s a digger” three times!
We were meeting a friend and her little girl. Both the kids have recently turned four and are measuring just over 100cm. Why do I mention their height? All the rides are split into a height for accompanied and a height for ride by yourself. At the entrance to each ride there is a height level so you can check this out before you join the queue. All the staff have a height stick too, so don’t worry if you’ve forgotten your child’s height!
Queues? We only ever queued for a couple of rides for a maximum of 5-10 minutes and as there’s loads of things for the kids to watch, we never got the bored waiting tantrums or bored messing around antics!
Out of all the rides we went on, I accompanied Mini Mumbler on the majority of them, but this didn’t spoil the fun. A lot of the diggers needed quite a bit of co-ordination and using levers in 4 directions had me boggled!! Mini Mumbler quickly got to grips with it and of course was shouting “Mummy, dig for the treasure, it’s there!!” I’m just not very good at remembering which direction I’m meant to push the lever!!
There are a range of different activities to do on the diggers; from driving mini cars to finding treasure to zooming round on a ride called Spindizzy! I thought the kids would be petrified but no, it was me who had my eyes closed and felt sick afterwards! Out of all the rides there was only two that we couldn’t go on due to height restrictions which I was really impressed with!
The price to get in is £23.95 per person over 90cm (under 90cm are free). On first glance this would seem expensive, but we went on 13 different rides during the day, 3 of them twice which ends up working out as just under £1.20 per ride per person which for all the different machines and activities we did, I think is a great day out!!
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We really did have “Buckets of Fun” and will definitely come back in the future!
Website: Diggerland
Phone: 01634 711711
Diggerland Yorkshire, Willowbridge Lane, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 5NW
