places to go with my 7 year old son on my journey

good evening chaps and chapettes im gonna be traveling from Portsmouth to Manchester with my 7 year old son, on Friday and back the following monday, could anybody tell me of a good campsite midway ish or good stuff to visit not to far from the route( shown below)

cheers

 

A true Dad challenge! Not a clue, Like Birdy I'm not child friendly, or possibly more accurately possibly, inept with children but I hope you both have a great time

 

Cadburys world in birmingham

 

Yummy

 

its a pretty good tour tbh and you get given free chocolate in the way round!!

 

Just let him take his DS or tablet and tell to sit still and you don't want to hear from him in til you get home unless he needs a roads side pee.

 

Push the boat out. Go to lymm truck stop, you can get a haircut AND buy a cb! And if he's annoying you, just sell him to a Bulgarian trucker!

 

Theres the Indoor ski slope at the Trafford centre. Have a snow board taster session!

 

Conkers in the National Forest, not far off your route, even have a camping and caravanning club site there. The Discovery centre there is pretty cool, even have an assault course, children aren't supposed to go on it but everyone was taking there kids on, even little tots

 

its not the most kid friendly route, if you did what that container ship did n went off course a bit n went round the m25 you could take in chessington world of adventure ,thorpe park , lego land n a few others our gran kids love them .

 

IWM Salford

 

My kids love it there and so do I(6 and 10). Being free is just a bonus.

 

My kids also like the playfactore http://www.playfactore.com. its under the chill factor mentioned above. Basically a huge indoor play centre with zip lines and huge slides. Kids love it adults not so much

 

What that ?

 

Imperial war museum at Salford keys. The Lowery theatres there too which is a bonus and you can have a gander through the windows of BBC and catch a few celebs.

 

Ah yes

I remember the science museum in Manchester , is it still open ? Coronation street studios too ?

 

Science and industry museum, Its still open not been for a couple of years. There was rumours of it being closed not sure of the latest on that. Another free day out and a good shout for a place to visit. A 7 year old will love it there. Its in the city centre too so can have a walk round to kill time.think the coronation street has also moved to Salford keys now . its now a huge media centre

 

The Imperial War Museum.

You could also go up to dodral bank and what about going to see Concorde at Manchester, or Concorde at Airbus in Filton(Bristol) I prefer this one as the old boys who do the tour actually built it! They blame the French for its demise

 

Bristols a bit outta the way, I looked over the Concorde at Bristol a few years back