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🐰 Easter at Johnsons of Old Hurst Zoo - 2026
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
🗓 EASTER 2026 DATES:
▪️Sat 28th March - Sunday 29th March
▪️Tues 31st March - Sunday 5th April
▪️Tues 7th April - Sunday 12th April
🕙 TIMES
We’ll be open 10am–5pm (Tues–Sat) and 10am–4:30pm (Sun) with plenty to keep the whole family entertained! Last entry is 30 minutes before closing time.
🐊 Please note, our tropical house will close 30 minutes prior to the zoo closing.
🐻 WHAT TO EXPECT
Enjoy our Easter Trail, face painting & more, alongside all your favourite animals here at Johnsons Zoo. It’s the perfect spring day out... we can’t wait to see you!
✅️ Play park onsite
✅️ Restaurant
✅️ Tea room
✅️ Farm shop
🐶 DOGS
For all you dog lovers and owners... yes! we do accept dogs at Johnsons, though we ask for you to keep them on a lead at all times.
🥪 NO PICNICS ALLOWED
To maintain affordable zoo prices and ensure the well-being of our animals, we encourage customers to dine in our tea room or steakhouse during their visit. Keeping our zoo prices low is essential to make it accessible to families with lower incomes.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to be wheelchair accessible. We provide disabled parking next to our farm shop and in front of the steakhouse entrance. Accessible toilets are available in both the steakhouse and tea room. Additionally, we have gravel paths throughout our zoo and woodland walk to facilitate wheelchair access.
💷 PAY AT THE DOOR - NO BOOKING REQUIRED (CASH OR CARD)
▪️Adult: £6.50
▪️Child: £5.50
▪️3 & under go free
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
☎️ Phone: 01487 824658
Related Blogs
🍊 Orange Rolling 2026 - Dunstable Downs
Time: 10:00 - 17:00 Price: £3.50
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️Sat 28 Mar - Sun 12 Apr
▪️10am – 5pm
▪️Last entry at 4:30pm
ℹ️ EVENT DETAILS
This year, visitors can challenge a friend and race their tennis balls along 10 purpose-built race tracks (filled with drops, twists, and turns), to see whose orange makes it to the finish line first!
💳 COST:
£3.50 per trail, which includes an Easter trail sheet, bunny ears, and a dairy or vegan & Free From* chocolate egg. (*Suitable for people with milk, egg, gluten, peanut, and tree nut allergies.)
This year's Easter trail is a fun, family-friendly experience that's not to be missed!
🐶 OTHER INFORMATION
This event is aimed at families, but everyone is welcome. Dogs on leads around the Visitor Centre. There is also a Café onsite.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
The visitor centre, courtyard and trail is step free and suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs.
🅿️ PARKING
Parking is free for National Trust Members and Blue Badge holders, for everyone it is £3.50.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01582 500920
📧 Email:
dunstabledowns@nationaltrust.org.uk
📸 Image description: a group of children playing with an outdoor ball run (©National Trust Images/Steve Haywood)
Related Blogs
🦖 See Elmer the Patchwork Elephant - Gulliver's Dinosaur and Farm Park (2026)
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Be sure to explore the rides and dinosaurs in the Lost World of the Living Dinosaurs, enjoy the farmyard fun on the farm park and get up close to giant creepy crawlies. And get ready to jump, bounce and soar on Elmer's Jumping Pillows - our newest attraction!
🎟 TICKET COST:
Book your tickets online in advance to save!
▪️Adult: £11.00
▪️Child: £11.00
▪️Under 90cm: Free
▪️Concessionary: £8.00
💦 Aqua Park Session (ages 6+) - Box End Park, Kempston
Time: 11:00 - 15:00
▪️Must be aged 6yrs + and over 1.1m tall (110cm+)
🗓 Open from April to October 2026
Our Aqua Park is suitable for all ages 6yrs+ and over 1.1m tall. The ultimate outdoor watersports experience for families & groups - climb, leap, bounce & splash your way around both inflatable courses packed with fun obstacles. Explore 2 giant courses during your session (rotating after 30-mins) - twice the fun for the same price! How long will you stay dry?
🧦 Grip socks (or soft-sole water shoes) are optional, but recommended for extra comfort and grip. Socks are available to buy on the day. Wetsuits are also optional, but recommended & can hired on the day or pre-booked.
🏊♂️ Participants must be able to swim at least 50 metres while wearing a buoyancy aid and be comfortable falling into open water.
👨👧👦 Children aged 6-9yrs must be accompanied by an adult on the Aqua Park aged 17yrs+ (1 adult : 3 kids ratio).
👨👦Child Supervision Policy:
For the safety and wellbeing of all guests, children aged 16 years and under must remain under the supervision of a responsible adult (aged 17 years or over) at all times while on site.
🕙 Arrival Times:
Please check-in at least 45 minutes before your session. This gives you time to check-in at reception, kit up & attend the group safety briefing (10-mins before). If you’re running late, we’ll do our best to get you onto your booked session, but this may require re-scheduling to the next available session or day.
🌧 Cancellations & Weather:
All bookings are non-refundable. However, if you notify us more than 7 working days prior to your scheduled session, we’ll be happy to discuss rescheduling your booking or issuing a credit for future use.
In the event of extreme weather conditions - such as lightning, high winds or flooding - Box End Park may need to cancel sessions for safety reasons. Should this occur, we will offer the option to reschedule your booking or provide a credit.
🎟 TICKET COST
▪️Individual Ticket: £17.50
▪️4-Person Ticket: £60.00
🎫 OPTIONAL COSTS
▪️Wetsuit Hire: £5.00
▪️Grip Socks: £2.50
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
📧 Email: info@boxendpark.com
🐑 Lambing Open Day 2026- Watergate Farm,Hockliffe
Time: 10:30 - 16:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Visitors can hold the lambs and see a modern sheep farm at work. With over 2000 sheep to give birth, it is a great chance to see lambs being born, taking their first few steps and suckling their mothers for the first time.
🐑 Real time lambing on a working farm
♨️ Refreshments & barbecue with local produce
🐷 See the young pigs and calves
🐴 Pony rides and sheep shearing (may there be adverse weather conditions – please see social media for any changes)
🐮 Red Poll cows and calves
🚜 Tractor and trailer rides
☁️ See wool spinning in action
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
Disabled parking facilities. We offer disabled parking and most the site is concreted. It is easy to get around the lambing shed and see the attractions.
👢WELLIES
🎟 TICKET COST:
▪️Adult (17 years old and over): £10.00
▪️Child: (3-16 years old): £ 8.00
ℹ️ BOOKING INFORMATION
Select your arrival time to purchase your tickets. Please note that entry before 12:30pm requires a pre-purchased ticket. Entry will not be permitted without a ticket.
After 12:30pm booking is not required and tickets can be purchased upon arrival. CASH ONLY.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01525 450 140
👣 Easter Egg Trail 2026 - Priory Country Park
Time: 10:00 - 16:00 Price: £4.00
👣 EVENT DETAILS
Pop into Cloverdale Cafe at Priory Country Park, Bedford during the opening hours to pick up a map.Follow the trail, collect the codes and then go back to the café to collect an Easter egg. (Non dairy & non edible available).
🗓 2026 DATES & TIME
▪️28th March - 12th April 2026
▪️10am - 4pm
💳 COST: £4.00 PER CHILD
No pre-booking required. Turn up and pay on the day.
ℹ️ HAVEN'T BEEN BEFORE?
Check out Whatsup Bedfordshire Facebook post for photos and info for Priory Country Park.
ℹ️ CLOVERDALE CAFE CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01933 682288
📧 Email: enquiries@cloverdalecatering.co.uk
🌐 Website: Cloverdale Cafe
https://cloverdaleretreat.co.uk/
Related Deals & Blogs
🌸 Boretta Bear's Easter Egg Hunt 2026 - Jordans Mill, Broom
Time: 09:30 - 15:30 Price: £4.00
🗓 2026 DATES & TIME
▪️28th March – 12th April
▪️9:30 am – 3:30 pm
🌸 EVENT DETAILS
Explore and follow clues to find ten birds including Rosie Robin, Oscar and the Owl, Kolin the Kingfisher, Sammy the Swan and more! Match each bird with their coloured egg and see how many you can find.
💳 COST: £4 PER CHILD (Includes a prize(
☕️ THE CAFE
There is a café onsite, you can read the menu here.
Sunday Menu.
Childrens menu
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
☎️ Phone: 01767 603940
🐣 Free Easter Egg Hunt 2026 - Emberton Country Park Cafe
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️28th March - 12th April
🐶 DOGS
Dogs are welcome outside the cafe.
💨 WEATHER PERMITTING
Important Note: Please remember that our opening times may occasionally be adjusted due to weather conditions, which could result in extended hours or early closure. We'll always do our best to keep you updated.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
There is free entry for vehicles displaying a disabled blue badge permit during the gatehouse opening times and there are reserved blue badge spaces in the main car park, near to the cafe where there is also access to toilet facilities for the disabled.
The main, circular pathway through the park has a hard paved surface that is suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs for most of the year. However, parts of the path can be wet in winter and after heavy rain.
Emberton Country Park has a Changing Places toilet, located behind the cafe.
🌳 THINGS TO DO AT EMBERTON COUNTRY PARK
To Find else what else you can do at Emberton Country Park click here.
🅿️ PARKING - FEES APPLY
Click here for information
ℹ️ CAFE CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01234 712665
🐒 Trail at Tring Natural History Museum - Easter Half Term 2026
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
🗓 OPENING TIMES
▪️Tuesday–Sunday
▪️Bank holidays
▪️10:00–17:00 (last entry at 16:00)
👣 TRAIL: £1.50 PAY ON ENTRY
To make the most of your visit our popular gallery trails which can be bought from the museum shop for £1.50. We currently have the ABC trail (under 6), and Walter and his animals (6+) to explore the museum with. You're also welcome to draw in the galleries, with your own pencils, or use ours located past admissions. Come and show us how you get on!
♿️ FACILITIES & ACCESS
🎟 MUSEUM FREE TICKETS
It is advised to book your free tickets in advance for the museum to guarantee you entry. It can get very busy at weekends and half term. You can book tickets via the event link.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 020 7942 6171
🐰 Willen Lake Easter Egg Trail 2026
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
🗓 2026 DATES & TIME
▪️28th March - 12th April
▪️10am - 4pm
▪️AGES:
Our trail is most suited to children under 8 years of age but everyone is welcome to take part.
Our Easter Bunny has been hopping around Willen Lake and accidentally dropped eight of his eggs! Each one comes with a fun challenge, from spotting wildlife and discovering different leaves to striking your best bunny pose. Kids can get creative, get active, and enjoy the fresh air as they follow the trail around the lakeside.
📜 WHERE TO COLLECT THE TRAIL SHEET
🅿️ PARKING
Parking charges apply
🖍 Sunday Crafternoons 2026 (under 12) - The Higgins, Bedford
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
🗓 2026 DATES:
▪️Sunday 12 April
▪️Sunday 10 May
▪️Sunday 28 June
▪️Sunday 27 September
🖍 Free Drop-In, no need to book, 2-4pm
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY: Click here
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01234 718618
☎️ Box Office: 01234 718044
🚘 Linslade Car Boot Sale 2026
Time: 12:00 - 16:00
🛍 BUYERS - FROM 12PM
▪️Entry: £1.00
🚘 SELLERS - FROM 11AM
(Pay on the day)
▪️Cars: £9.00
▪️Small vans: £12.00
▪️Large vans: £15.00
▪️Trailers: Plus £3.00
🪙 NOTE FOR BUYERS
Please keep notes to a minimum on the buyers gate, too many people use us for change. We struggle to get change just like everyone else.
FOOD & DRINK
✅️ Burgers van x 2
✅️ Doughnut van
✅️ Ice cream van
✅️ Coffee van
✅️ Pasty lady
⛔️ No dogs allowed except guide dogs.
🌧 WEATHER INFORMATION
Weather dependent, please keep an eye out for Facebook page updates.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 07487 293072
🐰 Easter at Johnsons of Old Hurst Zoo - 2026
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
🗓 EASTER 2026 DATES:
▪️Sat 28th March - Sunday 29th March
▪️Tues 31st March - Sunday 5th April
▪️Tues 7th April - Sunday 12th April
🕙 TIMES
We’ll be open 10am–5pm (Tues–Sat) and 10am–4:30pm (Sun) with plenty to keep the whole family entertained! Last entry is 30 minutes before closing time.
🐊 Please note, our tropical house will close 30 minutes prior to the zoo closing.
🐻 WHAT TO EXPECT
Enjoy our Easter Trail, face painting & more, alongside all your favourite animals here at Johnsons Zoo. It’s the perfect spring day out... we can’t wait to see you!
✅️ Play park onsite
✅️ Restaurant
✅️ Tea room
✅️ Farm shop
🐶 DOGS
For all you dog lovers and owners... yes! we do accept dogs at Johnsons, though we ask for you to keep them on a lead at all times.
🥪 NO PICNICS ALLOWED
To maintain affordable zoo prices and ensure the well-being of our animals, we encourage customers to dine in our tea room or steakhouse during their visit. Keeping our zoo prices low is essential to make it accessible to families with lower incomes.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to be wheelchair accessible. We provide disabled parking next to our farm shop and in front of the steakhouse entrance. Accessible toilets are available in both the steakhouse and tea room. Additionally, we have gravel paths throughout our zoo and woodland walk to facilitate wheelchair access.
💷 PAY AT THE DOOR - NO BOOKING REQUIRED (CASH OR CARD)
▪️Adult: £6.50
▪️Child: £5.50
▪️3 & under go free
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
☎️ Phone: 01487 824658
Related Blogs
🍊 Orange Rolling 2026 - Dunstable Downs
Time: 10:00 - 17:00 Price: £3.50
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️Sat 28 Mar - Sun 12 Apr
▪️10am – 5pm
▪️Last entry at 4:30pm
ℹ️ EVENT DETAILS
This year, visitors can challenge a friend and race their tennis balls along 10 purpose-built race tracks (filled with drops, twists, and turns), to see whose orange makes it to the finish line first!
💳 COST:
£3.50 per trail, which includes an Easter trail sheet, bunny ears, and a dairy or vegan & Free From* chocolate egg. (*Suitable for people with milk, egg, gluten, peanut, and tree nut allergies.)
This year's Easter trail is a fun, family-friendly experience that's not to be missed!
🐶 OTHER INFORMATION
This event is aimed at families, but everyone is welcome. Dogs on leads around the Visitor Centre. There is also a Café onsite.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
The visitor centre, courtyard and trail is step free and suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs.
🅿️ PARKING
Parking is free for National Trust Members and Blue Badge holders, for everyone it is £3.50.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01582 500920
📧 Email:
dunstabledowns@nationaltrust.org.uk
📸 Image description: a group of children playing with an outdoor ball run (©National Trust Images/Steve Haywood)
Related Blogs
🦖 See Elmer the Patchwork Elephant - Gulliver's Dinosaur and Farm Park (2026)
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Be sure to explore the rides and dinosaurs in the Lost World of the Living Dinosaurs, enjoy the farmyard fun on the farm park and get up close to giant creepy crawlies. And get ready to jump, bounce and soar on Elmer's Jumping Pillows - our newest attraction!
🎟 TICKET COST:
Book your tickets online in advance to save!
▪️Adult: £11.00
▪️Child: £11.00
▪️Under 90cm: Free
▪️Concessionary: £8.00
💦 Aqua Park Session (ages 6+) - Box End Park, Kempston
Time: 11:00 - 15:00
▪️Must be aged 6yrs + and over 1.1m tall (110cm+)
🗓 Open from April to October 2026
Our Aqua Park is suitable for all ages 6yrs+ and over 1.1m tall. The ultimate outdoor watersports experience for families & groups - climb, leap, bounce & splash your way around both inflatable courses packed with fun obstacles. Explore 2 giant courses during your session (rotating after 30-mins) - twice the fun for the same price! How long will you stay dry?
🧦 Grip socks (or soft-sole water shoes) are optional, but recommended for extra comfort and grip. Socks are available to buy on the day. Wetsuits are also optional, but recommended & can hired on the day or pre-booked.
🏊♂️ Participants must be able to swim at least 50 metres while wearing a buoyancy aid and be comfortable falling into open water.
👨👧👦 Children aged 6-9yrs must be accompanied by an adult on the Aqua Park aged 17yrs+ (1 adult : 3 kids ratio).
👨👦Child Supervision Policy:
For the safety and wellbeing of all guests, children aged 16 years and under must remain under the supervision of a responsible adult (aged 17 years or over) at all times while on site.
🕙 Arrival Times:
Please check-in at least 45 minutes before your session. This gives you time to check-in at reception, kit up & attend the group safety briefing (10-mins before). If you’re running late, we’ll do our best to get you onto your booked session, but this may require re-scheduling to the next available session or day.
🌧 Cancellations & Weather:
All bookings are non-refundable. However, if you notify us more than 7 working days prior to your scheduled session, we’ll be happy to discuss rescheduling your booking or issuing a credit for future use.
In the event of extreme weather conditions - such as lightning, high winds or flooding - Box End Park may need to cancel sessions for safety reasons. Should this occur, we will offer the option to reschedule your booking or provide a credit.
🎟 TICKET COST
▪️Individual Ticket: £17.50
▪️4-Person Ticket: £60.00
🎫 OPTIONAL COSTS
▪️Wetsuit Hire: £5.00
▪️Grip Socks: £2.50
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
📧 Email: info@boxendpark.com
🐑 Lambing Open Day 2026- Watergate Farm,Hockliffe
Time: 10:30 - 16:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Visitors can hold the lambs and see a modern sheep farm at work. With over 2000 sheep to give birth, it is a great chance to see lambs being born, taking their first few steps and suckling their mothers for the first time.
🐑 Real time lambing on a working farm
♨️ Refreshments & barbecue with local produce
🐷 See the young pigs and calves
🐴 Pony rides and sheep shearing (may there be adverse weather conditions – please see social media for any changes)
🐮 Red Poll cows and calves
🚜 Tractor and trailer rides
☁️ See wool spinning in action
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
Disabled parking facilities. We offer disabled parking and most the site is concreted. It is easy to get around the lambing shed and see the attractions.
👢WELLIES
🎟 TICKET COST:
▪️Adult (17 years old and over): £10.00
▪️Child: (3-16 years old): £ 8.00
ℹ️ BOOKING INFORMATION
Select your arrival time to purchase your tickets. Please note that entry before 12:30pm requires a pre-purchased ticket. Entry will not be permitted without a ticket.
After 12:30pm booking is not required and tickets can be purchased upon arrival. CASH ONLY.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01525 450 140
👣 Easter Egg Trail 2026 - Priory Country Park
Time: 10:00 - 16:00 Price: £4.00
👣 EVENT DETAILS
Pop into Cloverdale Cafe at Priory Country Park, Bedford during the opening hours to pick up a map.Follow the trail, collect the codes and then go back to the café to collect an Easter egg. (Non dairy & non edible available).
🗓 2026 DATES & TIME
▪️28th March - 12th April 2026
▪️10am - 4pm
💳 COST: £4.00 PER CHILD
No pre-booking required. Turn up and pay on the day.
ℹ️ HAVEN'T BEEN BEFORE?
Check out Whatsup Bedfordshire Facebook post for photos and info for Priory Country Park.
ℹ️ CLOVERDALE CAFE CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01933 682288
📧 Email: enquiries@cloverdalecatering.co.uk
🌐 Website: Cloverdale Cafe
https://cloverdaleretreat.co.uk/
Related Deals & Blogs
🌸 Boretta Bear's Easter Egg Hunt 2026 - Jordans Mill, Broom
Time: 09:30 - 15:30
🗓 2026 DATES & TIME
▪️28th March – 12th April
▪️9:30 am – 3:30 pm
🌸 EVENT DETAILS
Explore and follow clues to find ten birds including Rosie Robin, Oscar and the Owl, Kolin the Kingfisher, Sammy the Swan and more! Match each bird with their coloured egg and see how many you can find.
💳 COST: £4 PER CHILD (Includes a prize(
☕️ THE CAFE
There is a café onsite, you can read the menu here.
Sunday Menu.
Childrens menu
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
☎️ Phone: 01767 603940
🐣 Free Easter Egg Hunt 2026 - Emberton Country Park Cafe
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️28th March - 12th April
🐶 DOGS
Dogs are welcome outside the cafe.
💨 WEATHER PERMITTING
Important Note: Please remember that our opening times may occasionally be adjusted due to weather conditions, which could result in extended hours or early closure. We'll always do our best to keep you updated.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
There is free entry for vehicles displaying a disabled blue badge permit during the gatehouse opening times and there are reserved blue badge spaces in the main car park, near to the cafe where there is also access to toilet facilities for the disabled.
The main, circular pathway through the park has a hard paved surface that is suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs for most of the year. However, parts of the path can be wet in winter and after heavy rain.
Emberton Country Park has a Changing Places toilet, located behind the cafe.
🌳 THINGS TO DO AT EMBERTON COUNTRY PARK
To Find else what else you can do at Emberton Country Park click here.
🅿️ PARKING - FEES APPLY
Click here for information
ℹ️ CAFE CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01234 712665
