En Voyage - Issue #8
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Book flights to<br />
Manchester<br />
from Guernsey at<br />
aurigny.com<br />
DINOSAURS IN THE WILD<br />
If you’re heading to Manchester with<br />
youngsters, Trafford Park and Salford Quays<br />
areas have you well and truly covered.<br />
The flight to Manchester is a little under 90<br />
minutes. We made the most of Aurigny’s luggage<br />
allowance by taking our own car seats and at the<br />
other end we picked up a hire car – a modest £50<br />
Hertz booking – and set off for central Manchester<br />
and our first port of call; the fantastic Dinosaurs in<br />
the Wild at Event City.<br />
I don’t know exactly what I was expecting but<br />
Dinosaurs in the Wild far exceeded anything<br />
I’d imagined. There were plenty of moments<br />
where we had to remind our five and three-year<br />
olds that it wasn’t real, such was the authenticity<br />
of the props, staging and dinosaurs on the 3D<br />
screens. Three-year-old Reuben came away<br />
so convinced it was all real and was desperate<br />
to tell anyone and everyone all about it.<br />
I don’t want to give away too much of what happens<br />
but this immersive experience is up there with any<br />
Orlando theme park offering, and the flights to get<br />
there are much cheaper. Check out page 29 to find<br />
out where this fantastic attraction is heading next.<br />
The afternoon on our first day was spent inside<br />
the Intu Trafford Centre which, if you’ve not looked<br />
at the floor map before heading in, could be a bit<br />
of a minefield with little people in tow. There is,<br />
however, tonnes to entertain the whole family.<br />
We made our way to the Lego Discovery Centre,<br />
which is attached to the Trafford Centre. The<br />
whole centre is a hands-on children’s (and adult)<br />
paradise with areas to build and run your Lego cars<br />
as well as moving Lego displays, building tables<br />
galore and even entire pits of Lego you can literally<br />
sit in and construct to your heart’s content.<br />
Poppy was rather chuffed to find a 4’ high Buzz<br />
Lightyear made entirely of Lego and Reuben wasn’t<br />
disappointed with Lego’s Ninjago franchise stars<br />
also immortalised in multi-coloured blockwork.<br />
POPPY & BUZZ<br />
LEGO DISCOVERY CENTRE<br />
THE FLIGHT TO MANCHESTER IS A LITTLE<br />
UNDER 90 MINUTES. WE MADE THE MOST<br />
OF AURIGNY’S LUGGAGE ALLOWANCE BY<br />
TAKING OUR OWN CAR SEATS<br />
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