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29/10/2025

🎃 One of our favourite kid's events is back, so we leapt on our brooms to Sweet Party's spooktacular Spa.

🎃 Everything at this pink pamper palace is designed for , from the mini foot basins to the dinky robes and dressing tables.

🎃 And it's had a witchy makeover this half-term, to trick and treat little ones with a spooky spa session.

🎃 Little monsters don their spookiest outfits to sip green drinks and nibble eyeballs, while enjoying a slimy spider - mixed with skeletal hands - plus making from a smoking cauldron, glitter face magic, gothic polish, creepy , and .

🎃 It is THE place for little Hallo-Queens to be seen and runs until 31 October.

👀 find out more at the 🔗

https://www.timewellspentmag.com/post/halloween-october-s-top-45-things-to-do-with-kids

📍, 44 Pickford Lane, Bexleyheath, DA7 4QT
📅 Until 31 October
💰£57.02 for 2 witches

28/10/2025

🎃 We visit the home of the legendary CANNONS, .

🎃 As well as thousands of pumpkins in 75 varieties and wonderfully creative backdrops, this patch invites you to fire your gourds across the patch into a creepy target - dangerously addictive Halloweening.

🎃 We also enjoy toasting, roaming , a Maize , deliciously creepy house, Bale Mountain and Maze, , BOO-tiful backdrops and spooktacular .

🎃 You can also book into , where the spooky dial is turned up, with creepy actors lurking about.

🎃 Gourd, old squashioned fun.

👀 Find out more at the 🔗

📍, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 6NP
📅 Until 31 October
💰£4.29 pp
🐶 Dog friendly

20/10/2025

🐻 The Paddington Bear Experience has had a makeover in marmalade orange.

🐻 We took our little monsters to their way through the immersive adventure, from Paddington Station to 32 Windsor Gardens and Peru, before meeting Paddington to celebrate at the grand, Marmalade Festival finale.

https://www.timewellspentmag.com/post/review-the-paddington-bear-experience

🐻 You voted this , experience as Best Kid's Event of the Year in our TWS Awards - it's forensically faithful to the three much-loved films, with a series of , special effects and magical inspired by the franchise’s iconic locations, across 26,000 square feet of ’s County Hall.

🐻 There is no more spooktacular Halloween treat than leaping into the perfect, joyous of , where the biggest troubles revolve around a lack of oranges for the Festival.

👀 Read our full of this un-bear-lievably magical experience at the 🔗

📍 County Hall
📅 Halloween experience runs until 2 November
💰 from £29/adult, £19/child.
🎃 Halloween upgrade: £10/pp includes sweet bucket, Paddington ears & sweets throughout experience

🎅 has to park that juicy, red behind into a lot of grottos each .🎅 If you’re overwhelmed by the choice of Santa tête-...
14/10/2025

🎅 has to park that juicy, red behind into a lot of grottos each .

🎅 If you’re overwhelmed by the choice of Santa tête-à-têtes, our elves have rounded up the UK's best Santa experiences, from meetings in extraordinary, elven worlds to brand blockbuster grottos, snowy, three-day experiences, , , underground , 450 ft above beaches and biomes.

https://www.timewellspentmag.com/post/the-uk-s-top-santa-grottos-2025

🎅 Read the full guide at the 🔗

11/10/2025

🚂 We relive the Golden Age of travel aboard the iconic Belmond British Pullman, to celebrate 's beautiful range.

🚂 Over a pinch-me and bucket-list six hours of , , , and opulent five-course menu, we experience the magic, , and dreamy that have made Hornby a Christmas stalwart since 1915.

🚂 Between views across 's white cliffs, tartare, perfect roasts, live and well-topped glasses by the wonderful, white-gloved staff in our decadent and cosy, wood-panelled carriages, we are filled with the magic and glamour that intoxicates the train lovers who line our journey for a glimpse of this jaw-dropping .

🚂 Although this train won't fit beneath your tree, we play with a gaggle of Hornby treats which will, like their magical Santa's Express set, which chugs around its trunk, or their Hornby Steam Generator, with real smoke effects.

A magical journey which we didn't want to end.

🎅 Choo-choose Hornby's festive trains, or read our Kid's Christmas Gift Guide at the 🔗

06/10/2025

🫕We head to the world’s only floating experience for a magical après-ski adventure, gliding through .

🫕 has reimagined what boats can be, with boats, boats, and even the world’s first boat.

🫕We are here for the twinkling, snow-capped fleet of igloos.

🫕The experience includes a skipper guided tour of the historic and dreamy or fondue in your own private igloo boat.

https://www.timewellspentmag.com/post/review-skuna-igloo-boat

👀 our at the 🔗 to see why this is a simply fondueful experience.

📍 West India Quay
💰 £49/person

💥 are the perfect experience... if you can avoid tired and grumpy children, wailing/sleeping through zingers and scr...
06/10/2025

💥 are the perfect experience... if you can avoid tired and grumpy children, wailing/sleeping through zingers and screaming at the bangers.

💥 So hurrah to our best kid's fireworks displays in or near , which offer earlier, tantrum-dodging displays, with many providing quieter fireworks, plus amazing kid-pleasing , from face-painting and fairground to .

https://www.timewellspentmag.com/post/london-s-best-kids-firework-displays

💥 There are also plenty of hot toddies to warm and loosen up the grown-ups. BOOM.

👀 the full, banging at the 🔗

30/09/2025

🎃 Our ghouls have been haunting the country for this year's most spooktacular tricks and treats.

https://www.timewellspentmag.com/post/best-halloween-decorations-treats

🎃 We have amazing Addams decorations, robotic hands, , moving doorbells to terrify the bravest trick or treaters, as well as creepy, face-changing plush , , deadly , skelegant and very GOURD table decor.

🎃 From glamour goths to wallet watching witches, we have something for every (headless) body.

Read our full guide to this year's best decorations and treats at the 🔗...if you dare.

27/09/2025

Could - famed for its futuristic egg pod toilets and iconic pink gallery - get any more creative and colourful?

YES, it seems, with the launch of its and ¡hola, London! with design studio and gallery, AGO Projects.

https://www.timewellspentmag.com/post/sketch-launches-hola-london-exhibition

Running until 11 in collaboration with ® Tequila, the show transforms the entrance and loos into a dreamlike, Mexican landscape.

Every Friday until 7 November, PATRON Nights continues the celebration of culture, with music, a bespoke menu, and beautiful Mexican in the Bar.

Find out more at the 🔗

📍
📆 Until 11 November
PATRÓN Nights every Friday until 7 November

22/09/2025

⭕️ Despite being based on ’s bloody, dystopian thriller about desperate contestants playing deadly children’s games, : The Experience is the perfect day out.

https://www.timewellspentmag.com/post/review-squid-game-the-experience

🔺️ We take our children to the forensically faithful (but child-friendly) experience to become real-life contestants in ’s recreation of the hit show, playing five of its famous

🟥 These include the BRILLIANT Red Light, Green Light, with an enormous Young-Hee doll.

We celebrate our survival at its before being eliminated back into London.

👀 Read our full of this brilliant immersive adventure for all ages at the 🔗

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💰 from £26/adult, £18/child

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