Offaly

Playtown Tullamore

Playtown Tullamore is Ireland’s multi award-winning children’s museum. Offering over 60+ role play opportunities and two creative rooms over three levels, Playtown offers fun for all the family of all ages, abilities and imaginations.

Pricing: 6 months - 3 years old €10;4 - 12 Years Old + €12.50; Adults €2.50.

Galway

Galway Atlantaquaria

The aquarium offers a glimpse into Ireland’s unique aquatic marine life. Visitors can enjoy interactive talks, workshops, and feeding experiences throughout the day.

Featured exhibits include the Bearna Log Boat, a massive 60-foot din whale skeleton, and a traditional Galway Hooker boat. A perfect destination for families, nature enthusiasts, and anyone interested in marine life and conservation.

Pricing: Range of family tickets starting from €32 [1 adult + 2 children].

Belfast

W5, Science & Discovery Centre

W5 stands for ‘Who, What, Where, When, Why’—and this science and discovery museum in Belfast answers all these questions and more through hands-on learning experiences.

With over 250 interactive exhibits across four dynamic floors, it’s a place where curiosity is encouraged, and learning is fun.

Pricing: Adult from £9.50, Child from £8.

Limerick

The International Rugby Experience

A fully interactive and immersive experience, ideal for families and kids (of all ages!), whether avid rugby fans or not.

Visitors move through six stages, enjoying the excitement of game day through vast media installations and listening to inspirational stories from across the generations and around the world.

There is fun every step of the way as they test their own running, kicking, handling and strength skills with virtual coaching by some famous faces.

Pricing: €17.50 (Adults) / €12.50 (Under 18s). Family and group rates available.

Sligo

Zero Gravity Skatepark, Sligo

Zero Gravity is all about building a better skating community in Sligo and the North West of Ireland.

Their skatepark is purpose built to facilitate beginners to professionals, and they offer classes and sessions for all levels and all disciplines: stunt scooters, skateboarders, BMX, roller-skates and rollerbladers.

Pricing: From €12 for one hour session.

Dublin

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

Treat the family to an engaging and immersive experience at EPIC and explore what it means to be Irish!

With spectacular visual displays, innovative audio-visual exhibitions and interactive touch-screens, EPIC is a feast for the senses that brings Irish stories to life like never before.

From music to science, dancing to marching, sport to conflict, literature to technology, poetry to politics, whatever you’re interested in, you’ll find it there.

Pricing: Range of Tickets: September: Infant [free], Child €10.50.

Cork

The Treehouse, Skibbereen

The Treehouse, Skibbereen is an adventure-filled indoor soft play centre for children and a comfortable, relaxing space for parents and care providers.

The on-site café provides snacks and hot meals along with locally sourced coffee. Catering for infants and children up to age 12. The Treehouse is the perfect place for the whole family.

They also offer birthday parties, clothes swaps, Gymboree classes and much more!

Pricing: Infants (until walking): Complimentary entry. Children: €7. weekday, €9.50 weekend.

Wicklow

Bray Bowl, Bray

Bray Bowl is located beside Bray Dart Station and a short distance from Bray seafront. They have a wide choice of activities to choose from to suit all ages, including video arcades, tenpin bowling, laser tag, ticket redemption arcades, pool, snooker and American pool.

Extra facilities include their on-site café and pizzeria and an underground car park [free of charge to patrons of Bray Bowl].

Pricing: Range of Activity Prices from €7.

Mayo

The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life

The 30-acre campus includes a large open museum building where children can learn all about traditional life in Ireland in times gone by.

New in 2024 is The Murmur of Bees, an educational exhibition about the magic of Ireland’s bees, featuring a unique collection of insect material from the ‘Dead Zoo’ in Dublin.

There is also a museum trail called ‘Peadar and His Friends’ where children have to follow a map through the exhibition galleries to find Peadar the Pygmy Shrew and friends!

Admission is free.

Kerry

The Aqua Dome

At The Aqua Dome, families can enjoy swimming with the current, surfing the waves, relaxing in the lazy river, wrestling the river rapids, riding the sky-high flume slide and plunging down the outdoor falling rapids.

Whirlpool spas, bubble seats, sprays, cannons, gushers, geysers, children’s pools and bubble pools are all super attractions for everyone to splash in. All pool areas are patrolled by a qualified lifeguard and there is free parking.

Pricing: Family Admission from €61.20 [2 Adults + 2 Children].

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