Only went to the centre as thought it would waste a morning, didn't look particularly big and didn't want to do anything excessive due to the current high heat and an ill elderly father with us. Arrived at 10:30, as it opened, and ended up leaving at 15:45. So quite a gentle relaxed day spent there instead of a quick visit, so got our moneys worth, and its fairly inexpensive too.

You can ride two miniature railway lines for 2 different gauges, both run virtually parallel to one another so you do really only see the same sights on them.

Two sets of carriages on rails that you can go in, one with a more historical slant with information about GWR and how the site came to be, the other with several different model railways. The model railway carriages were a bit hot and portable air con units had been set up, but really were only much help when you were standing directly infront of them. Not really much of an issue but it was 31° today so we weren't hanging around in each carriage for too long before moving on.

There was a decently sized model village, not the best made I've seen before but plenty to see and the added buttons to press that played music or animated elements was enjoyable, especially for my 4 year old.

There were two pay as you go electric car areas, one that looked like vans and another more akin to bumper cars (with a sign saying don't bump!). Fun while it lasted, but, the areas for the bumper cars was small, and three of them in the small boxed area so it wasn't much room to play.

Soft play area was good, a sign to say it was closed twice a day for cleaning due to COVID, so, nice to see they are continuing that.

On the COVID front, everyone's asked to wear masks in the indoor areas, not needed outside now, while all staff members seen still wore theirs. Hand sanitising stations seen throughout too. There were arrows showing direction of travel through the site, but we were told on arriving that no longer in use.

You have to prebook, and we did easily enough on their website the day before, and only paid on the actual day. So I thought that was a plus as if something pops up and you can't attend anymore you're not losing your money or going through the hassle in getting it back.

I do find one draw back about the whole site, is its a little bit dated. The crazy golf seems to have been built with what ever was to hand, and is quite bumpy, so don't think you'll get yourself a hole in one! So just feels like its deteriorated over time.

While the aforementioned electric cars are squeezed into a small space, almost like feeling up the room to make do.

Two small playground areas (that we saw) with climbing frame and slides that broke up the walk around as the 4 year old had some fun with those.

Lunch was nice, ordered and served in the old station house. You could get hot baguettes, jacket potatoes, pasties, basic stuff, all reasonably priced when you compare todays prices. Can of coke was £1.20, and think we paid £14 something for two cheese & ham baguettes, with side salad and handful of crisps, and two cokes.

Overall, really enjoyed the day. If it wasn't as hot, with more people, think it may have been less enjoyable as the size of the place, as said, isn't big enough to accommodate bigger crowds and could see queuing for long times for the train rides a pain and electric cars a pain. The theme of the place is that they seem to have crammed a lot in to a small area.

A fun day. Would go again.