Crealy Adventure Park and Resort!

Let’s jump straight to it, this is hands down one of the best places we’ve ever taken the kids. A bold statement I know, but after spending a week at Crealy Adventure Park and our very needy and demanding children still not getting bored, I wish we could go back and do it all again.

Let’s start with the accommodation…

Cedar Lodge

Crealy Adventure Park & Resort caters for both days out and short breaks, with the ability to camp in your own tent or caravan, glamp in one of their safari style glamping tents or some rather funky circus/jester style tents, or stay in a hot tub lodge. We were lucky enough to be staying in one of these beautiful lodges.

The lodge itself can sleep 8 people, 6 in bedrooms and the sofa folds out to sleep another 2. Leo wanted to be the one to sleep on the sofa so he’s nearer the tv; no-one argued and they let him have it! Argument 1 avoided.

The girls had one twin room and the boys had the other, while we obviously had the master bedroom complete with double bed and en-suite shower.

The lodge was beautiful inside and out, fully fitted kitchen will all the utensils and equipment you’d need, I really couldn’t fault it.

Outside there was a large dining table and the most amazing hot tub. It was cleaned and maintained regularly and the whole family loved it.

Let’s move on to the park itself…

The High Dive Show

Literally, I’ve never felt so sick in all my life. And that’s saying something given I once ate my body weight in fruit pastilles and sunny delight.

The whole routine is jam-packed with olympic dives, some definitely not olympic dives, comedy, laughter and entertainment. Performed 3 times a day during the peak season, I genuinely don’t know how the divers do it. It’s so full of energy and excitement from start to finish, and the final dive is unlike anything I’ve seen before! I don’t want to give too much away and spoil the surprise, but it’s not to be missed if you’re visiting Crealy!

The Rides

We have quite a mixed bag of children when it comes to rides. Some will go on everything, some don’t like getting wet, some don’t like heights, some don’t like spinning, some don’t like anything! So it was going to be an interesting experience!

There really is something for everyone at Crealy. There are some small rides for younger children, soft play areas, outdoor play areas, animals, bigger rides, water rides, shows and performances, food, drinks, ice creams and a bar! What more could you want?!

The log flume was a firm favourite of ours, and the kids loved the aqua blasters. The queues, given it was the middle of the summer holidays when we went, weren’t all that bad at all. The longest we waited for a ride was about half an hour, and that was for twister which is one of the biggest rides on the park.

Vortex is a series of 3 water slides where you sit in a rubber dingy and go down. Vertigo is a steep (almost vertical) drop and Venom is a longer, bumpy slide, both of which are extremely fast and one of my favourite rides on the park.

Viper is in darkness, with a number of twists and turns and quite a bit wetter.

Or so the kids tell me.

I wasn’t brave enough to try it!

Shows & Performances

There are a number of shows on throughout the day at Crealy, including the beautiful Blossom Bear and her pal Buddy putting on a show for the younger audiences and a pirate show that the kids thought was fantastic.

Evening Entertainment

If you’re staying at Crealy on a short break, you also get access back into the park in the evening to the Adventure Zone. The biggest indoor play area I think I’ve ever seen. At first I thought this was going to be a bit of a parenting nightmare, you can imagine what a bunch of tired, high on sugar, staying up late, getting up early children could be like, but in fact it was brilliant. It was suitable for all ages, including adults, and had a mixture of soft play, slides, ball pits, arcades and loads of space to run around. It was a brilliant way to entertain the kids while happy hour was on 6:30-7:30pm!

As for the entertainment put on in the evening, we couldn’t have asked for better. One night there was ‘wrestling’ advertised. Now we’ve been to our fair share of kids parties in the past, and rather than getting the kids hopes up of a WWE style wrestling match and being disappointed, we prepared them and said it was probably just going to be a few clowns pretend-wrestling on the stage.

Well… I couldn’t have been more wrong! We arrived to find a huge wrestling ring in the middle of the dance floor and the wrestlers put on the most amazing show, full of throws, slams and scuffles. It was a great show for both children and adults. They were lucky enough to meet the wrestlers afterwards too!

On Thursday nights, they have an acrobatic duo performing who put on a fantastic show. It was our last night at Crealy and I couldn’t have wished for a better way to end our week. Full of juggling, dancing, flips, tricks, lights, unicycles and axes (I know, what could possibly go wrong?!) it was a great show!

We had the most amazing week at Crealy Adventure Park and Resort, and whether it’s for the day, the weekend, a week or even longer, it’s a brilliant place for the whole family to enjoy. Highly recommended by the Cooks!

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