Center Parcs Whinfell Forest

For the children

• Kids' activities
• Playground
• Pool
• Children's pool
• Outdoor play
• Games room
• Bikes
• Tennis
• Nature activities
• Watersports
• Family dining
• Children's menu
• Family rooms
• Cots
• Spa

Best for

All ages, especially toddlers to tweens

Ages

All ages

Kids' club

No traditional drop-off club; extensive bookable kids' activities from toddler sessions to teen sports

Pool

Subtropical Swimming Paradise: indoor pool complex with slides, rapids and toddler areas

Family rooms

Two- to four-bedroom lodges, plus Treehouses (up to 6) and four-bedroom Exclusive Lodges with games rooms

Outdoors

Cycling, lake watersports, archery, aerial adventure, nature walks, tennis

We only list facilities we could confirm on their website — something not listed may still be there.

Days out nearby

• The World of Beatrix Potter ↗

  ~28 miles · ~45 mins

  Indoor play / activity · rainy day option

  Peter Rabbit and friends brought to life in recreated scenes from the stories, with a little garden to explore. Short, gentle and perfect for small children on a wet Lake District afternoon.

• Lakes Aquarium ↗

  ~36 miles · ~45 mins

  Aquarium · ideal day trip

  Freshwater and coastal creatures from otters to diving ducks, with an underwater tunnel, at the southern tip of Windermere. Easy to pair with the lake steamers and the Lakeside steam railway next door.

• Kielder Castle & Kielder Forest ↗

  ~50 miles · ~1 hr

  Nature / outdoors · ideal day trip

  England's biggest forest and lake, with adventure play, family bike trails, red squirrels and some of the darkest skies in the country. Kielder Castle is a handy base with a café and visitor centre.

• Beamish, The Living Museum of the North ↗

  ~53 miles · ~1 hr

  Castle / historic · ideal day trip

  An open-air museum where trams and buses carry families between a 1900s town, a pit village, a farm and 1950s streets. Children can visit an old schoolroom, buy sweets the old way and see steam engines working.