It’s School Tour Season again and it’s that time of the year to start planning your school tour day out! Tralee the home of Ireland’s best large tourism town is a wonderful base for a memorable school tour day out! There are award winning attractions to choose from and Tralee School Tours will deliver fun, value and entertainment and ensure both the children and teachers have a fantastic day out. Happy experiences create happy memories!
Simply choose which attractions you would like to visit from below and book directly with the attraction you wish to visit.
Aqua Dome
Paddle your way to the Aqua Dome one of Ireland’s premier waterworlds and enjoy a super school tour day out without getting sand in your eyes! Children are guaranteed to have a splashing good time as they jump in the waves, ride the sky high flume slide, wrestle the river rapids, plunge down the falling rapids and float effortlessly in the lazy river. Why not combine a visit to the Aqua Dome with an exciting 18 holes of Aqua Golf ? It’s great fun to play!
Kerry County Museum
Visit Kerry County Museum and bring your curriculum alive with our exciting hands-on school tours programme. Dig up Viking skeletons in our interactive workshop Bone Investigators, travel back in time and stroll through the Medieval Experience, follow a discovery trail through the Museum Gallery & Tom Crean Room and hear all about Casement in Kerry in their new 1916 exhibition! www.kerrymuseum.ie
Crag Cave
For an enthralling school tour experience visit Crag Cave a natural limestone showcave and enjoy a magical wonderland of stalagmites and stalactites over one million years old. Follow this by an energetic visit to Crazy Cave an indoor softplay adventure centre with mega astra slides, ball pools, spiral slides, funball battle cannons, rodeo bull, a large outdoor playground & for the adventurous a mega climbing wall! www.cragcave.com
Tralee Bay Wetlands
As one of Ireland’s leading eco-tourism and environmental education centres, Tralee Bay Wetlands offers school tours a lively mix of hands-on encounters with nature. Children can enjoy unique experiences such as pond-dipping, frog-hunting and small-mammal trapping along with the more traditional outdoor pursuits of orienteering, pedal-boating, team-building games and a state of the art climbing tower. www.traleebaywetlands.org
The Playdium
With over 10,000sqft of climbing frames children are guaranteed to enjoy an exhilarating school tour day out in The Playdium. The astra slides, adventure towers and indoor games facilities all create exciting experiences and can be enjoyed by children of all ages. Happy memories are created as children play, exercise and socialise in this fully secure and supervised facility. www.theplaydium.ie
Blennerville Windmill
Why not Blennerville Windmill for guided tours of Ireland largest working windmill. Children can gain first hand experience of grinding wheat while also learning about the famine in the audio visual room and exhibition. The bird watch, farm exhibition and huge interactive model railway exhibition is fun for all ages.
Blennerville Windmill is a landmark in Tralee Bay and together with the audio visual room children can experience the workings of a traditional windmill and watch as the wind gently turns it’s sails. See how the millers crushed grain to make flour over 150 years ago and children can gain first hand experience of grinding their own wheat into flour while working the hand querns. Climb to the top and enjoy the panoramic views over Tralee bay! www.blennerville-windmill.ie
Bowling Buddies
Bowling Buddies is the only bowling centre in Kerry to offer two major activities under one roof. At Bowling Buddies they offer bowling at it’s very best with a real emphasis on quality food, drink and great service.
As well as 10 pin bowling they have their newest addition Skywalker Adventure which is the only indoor high ropes course of it’s kind in Munster. They also offer a wide range of group activities to choose from including a bungee run or their famous bucking bronco. www.bowlingbuddies.ie
McDonalds
For a fruity alternative to French fries why not visit McDonalds and treat your class to tasty meal options. Meal deals are available for the ravenous or there are a variety of salads on offer for the less hungry.