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Half term, here again so soon? I’m not sure if it’s just me, but these days, weeks, months, half terms and terms are just flying by (and I can’t work out if that’s a good or bad thing at the moment!)

May/June half term brings the last mini-break in the school year before the joy that is the 6 weeks summer holidays!

So here’s some suggestions for an experience, a couple of days away, and obviously where to eat with your little ones this half term! I hope you all have a wonderful time and let’s hope for some great weather to go with it.

What to experience:

Thames Rockets

I’m a real experience girl, I love an activity as a day out, Rico is full of energy and sometimes expecting him to sit down and not move for a long period of time is boredline impossible. One experience that I’ve wanted to do is go on the Thames Rockets, a speed boat tour that lasts for 50 mins on the Thames for an ulimate tour of our beautiful city.

Every single person who has been on the Thames Rockets has had nothing but positive feedback and have all booked to go again. I’ve been waiting for the weather to improve to book and go, so I’m excited to finally be going next week.

@ThamesRockets www.ThamesRockets.com

Where to go and where to stay:

If you want to go out of London, we recently went to Bath in the Easter break, it was such a lovely town, very scenic and beautiful and we also visited Longleat Safari Park (which I think was more to fulfill Jamie’s childhood dreams over Rico’s but that’s another story). There was a beautiful lake boat trip that we went on where we spotted some sleepy Hippos and some very hungry and funny seals, a beautiful avery where you can purchase some bird food and watch them fly onto your arms! There’s a drive round bit that you can do to see the Monkeys, Lions, Zebras, Bears, Wolves and many more. It is HUGE and there’s so much for the kids to do, it’s a really lovely day out. We stayed in the Bath Hotel Spa which was lovely, had an indoor/outdoor pool and a restaurant where we ate the best steak.

Where to eat:

I only have one child, and honestly, feeding him can be so expensive (especially as all he wants from wherever we go is prawns – don’t ask). Bringing a packed lunch isn’t always something you can or even want to do and cooking three meals a day including have unlimited snacks on tap for a whole week sounds like more of a punishment than a happy week off, so if you did want to go and eat, without breaking the bank of course, here are some restaurants who have some great deals for eating out with your little ones this half term, some that are free with an adult meal, some that are very cheap!

(PS, I found these all on Money Saving Central and Groupon, I would suggest going back and checking out the website as they’re always adding and updating it).