'We went to 'Lapland' without leaving the UK and it was a magical experience'

An mean leisure centre has turned itself into 'Lapland' for the festive season, with each inch of the indoor and outdoor play country turned into a wintertime wonderland

The countdown to Christmas has begun, with the large time lone a substance of weeks away. And if you're looking for a amusive and festive enactment to bash with the kids, however astir a travel to Lapland?

Luckily, you don't adjacent request to measurement ft connected a formation successful bid to acquisition the magic of the North Pole, arsenic 1 leisure centre has underwent a full festive translation for the season.

Transforming itself into a "Lapland" paradise, Otterspool Adventure Centre successful Liverpool has go a wintertime wonderland for the season.

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Liverpool Echo writer Kate Lally paid it a sojourn with her son, and was blown distant astatine the yuletide cheer and festive amusive that awaited them arsenic soon arsenic they stepped ft inside.

She wrote: "Elves were connected manus to greet us, earlier my small 1 was fixed his ain "ticket" to the North Pole, earlier we boarded a magical train. We were past treated to a Christmas show, earlier heading to the artifact workshop

"There was plentifulness of singing and dancing earlier the kids made their ain teddy bears, with my lad convinced helium had really worked alongside Santa's Christmas crew. Then we headed implicit to wage Mrs Claus a visit."

In her lukewarm and inviting cottage, they decorated gingerbread cookies, past spent immoderate clip crystal skating - and adjacent stopped by the station bureau wherever the kids could pen and station letters to Santa. After enjoying immoderate toasted marshmallows, the travel ended with a sojourn to Santa's grotto to conscionable the cheerful antheral successful reddish himself.

A magical way adorned with sparkling lights and "snow" guided Kate to a Father Christmas who was convincingly real. Parents are each excessively acquainted with Santas that don't rather acceptable the bill, but determination was nary question of authenticity here.

Kate said: "My lad precise overmuch believes helium met the existent deal, and I can't instrumentality him to spot immoderate others present due to the fact that helium could good odor a rat. We had a magical time pretending we were astatine Lapland, and it's made this part-Grinch consciousness precise festive already."

To sojourn this amusive festive experience, caput implicit to Otterspool Adventure astatine Otterspool Drive, L17 5AL

Entry starts astatine £29.99 per person, which includes a gathering with Santa successful his Grotto, a contiguous from his artifact shop, creating a teddy carnivore successful the elves' "make a bear" workshop, a festive show, gingerbread decorating, and entree to respective attractions similar a skating rink.

It's disposable until December 24 (Christmas Eve).

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