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off at the weekend to ilfracombe and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for days out...i liked the look of the dinosaur place but someone has said that it is very dated and not worth the money ??

any ideas folks ???

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=4&TopicID=77966&PagePosition=2

This recent link was asking much the same thing, their tour covers the area you are staying at - hope it helps!

cheers looked at that posting but no real recommendations of places to see....we're only going for a week so wantd to make sure that we went to the best places.

any one whos been to the dinosaur place or watermouth castle would be handy cos not sure if there worth the money.

We went to the Dinosaur park when we stayed in Combe Martin (I posted this in that link). It depends on what you consider worth the money - we had done the place in 1.5 hours mainly because our children (5 & 4) speed round places. They do things like feeding the sealions etc all at staggered times of the day, which is ok if you plan on staying all day, but we rarely do so didn't see things like that. For us the best bits were heading out on Exmoor, or following the coast road and playing in the rock pools on the beach. Lynton & Lynmouth and the steam cliff railway were a lovely visit.

they are 9 and my daughter will be 8 , in the past we have gone to places like warwick castle ,or drayton manor or west midlands safari park ( all local ) wanted something similar to take her as we usually do.

Hi

There won't be anything comparable to Warwick castle there - you need to get out in the country on Exmoor or go to Clovelly.  We were amazed at Porlock hill - we were in the motorhome - managed to get up there but you wouldn't want to do that with a caravan!  We went to Westward Ho! as well for some surfing - you could go to Croyde too.

Deb

Also just thought of Lundy Island - it's off the north coast of Devon/Cornwall, quite a nature reserve, you can get boat trips from Ilfracombe and Bideford - well worth a day visit I'd have thought?!