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Santa experiences.

  • 28-04-2014 8:48pm
    #1
    creme egg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭


    Hi

    Just wondering if you could recommend any Santa experiences in Kildare.... Or anywhere in Leinster really. I'm looking for a bit more than a few hours queue to see a guy in a fake beard.
    The kids will b 5 and 2 1/2.

    TIA

    Creme egg.


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  • #2
    mightyreds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    Lully more heritage park is meant to be excellent at Christmas that's between rathangan and allenwood


  • #3
    skelligs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭skelligs


    It is a bit early isn't it?

    But assuming you are forward planning, don't think of it from an adult point of view knowing its a false beard etc. Think in the mind of a 5 & 2 1/2 year old.

    So the experience of the event will be far more important that what type of beard a guy has - the kids will believe anyway.

    Lullymore and Rathwood in Carlow are probably the best known and year after year they both get recommendations. Both involve a drive on country roads and are in rural settings.


  • #4
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland do a steam train ride with Santa from Maynooth to Dublin and back. Not on their website yet but keep an eye out as it books out very quickly.

    http://www.steamtrainsireland.com/


  • #5
    aristotle25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭aristotle25


    mightyreds wrote: »
    Lully more heritage park is meant to be excellent at Christmas that's between rathangan and allenwood

    We went there and it was completely jammed. There was a queue of at least 50 for "Santa" and at times you could hardly move in there. So just pick you time and avoid peak times perhaps.

    It was good-ish but when it is raining you will probably be confined to indoors.


  • #6
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    Did Rathwood with the kids 2 years ago. Great fun - storytelling with Mrs. Claus, train journey and stop at the cabin to see Santa with face painting by the elves.
    Hot Chocolate for the kids at the end.
    About 2 hrs in total.
    http://www.rathwood.com/Train.html


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  • #7
    sadie06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭sadie06


    Wallaby Woods was quite good, even though we visited during a storm (had booked our place in advance) and they were in the middle of a power cut. The santa setting was in the woods, and afterwards the children decorated gingerbread men and sang songs with Mrs. Claus while the parents munched on mince pies, all included in price.


  • #8
    creme egg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭creme egg


    Thanks all

    A bit for me to research there.

    I know I'm a little early with this, but have been living away from home for a bit, and went to book a Santa experience in July 2013 for that Christmas and weekends were booked up for December! I don't want to be caught out when I go home!


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