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Like loads of youngsters, my three love a bus journey. It’s an journey in itself and a enjoyable and integral a part of many a day trip – shopping for the tickets, selecting the place to take a seat (at all times the again of the bus for my children), urgent the little bell to sign to the motive force you should get off on the subsequent cease, if you happen to reside in Cardiff the compulsory ‘Cheers Drive’ as you step off the bus. They discover it nice enjoyable. It additionally makes life simpler and cheaper for me as a mum or dad too, with no worries in regards to the rising value of petrol, struggling to discover a place to park or having to pay a small fortune on parking. Plus public transport is best for the atmosphere too, lowering dangerous emissions and lessening congestion on the roads.
Cardiff Bus makes it simple and inexpensive for households to journey across the metropolis at weekends and through native college holidays. Simply £5.50 will get you a ticket for as much as 5 folks (most of two adults and should embrace at the very least one youngster) that you need to use all day for as many journeys as you want round Cardiff and Penarth. Or for £8 you possibly can head to Barry Island for a seaside journey.
And, tremendous thrilling information, from the tip of July the household ticket provides you with entry to Cardiff’s new open high bus service, which travels from Kingsway and St Mary Avenue within the metropolis centre and visits Cardiff Bay and Penarth Pier – a terrific and cost-effective strategy to journey across the metropolis and to see its well-known landmarks from a distinct perspective.
The Cardiff Bus app makes travelling by bus actually easy too. You should purchase your tickets prematurely of your journey, test routes and timetables, in addition to getting actual time updates in your bus’s arrival. You possibly can, in fact, nonetheless pay with money or contactless card, however we’ve discovered the app very easy to handle (my 12 12 months previous makes use of it most days to get to and from college).
We’re fortunate in Cardiff to have so many implausible locations to go to that are simply accessible by bus. I’ve rounded up 15 nice locations you possibly can go to with Cardiff Bus this summer season, and they’re all free.
Do let me know any extra of your favorite locations to go to by bus within the feedback under, on the Cardiff Mummy Says Fb web page, the Cardiff Mummy Says Instagram feed, or by following Cardiff Mummy Says on Twitter.
We lately spent the weekend exploring our metropolis with Cardiff Bus, taking in a few of our favorite free sights. Do take a look at the Cardiff Mummy Says Instagram Reel and Tales highlights and Reel to see movies of the place we went and the way we acquired on.
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15 locations in and round Cardiff you possibly can discover with Cardiff Bus – and all are free to go to
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- Nationwide Museum Cardiff
There are buses to the town centre from all throughout Cardiff. See the web site or app for ones out of your space.
One among our favorite locations within the metropolis centre, Nationwide Museum Cardiff is nice for all ages, and entry is free. You’ll discover meteorites, fossils and the well-known dinosaur skeletons within the Evolution of Wales gallery, a humpback whale skeleton alongside a whole lot of different creatures within the pure historical past space. The museum can be house to certainly one of Europe’s best artwork collections with work, drawings, sculpture, silver and ceramics from artists together with Wales’s Augustus and Gwen John and Sir Kyffin Williams; plus a few of the world’s most well-known painters together with Monet, Van Goch, and Renoir.
Over the summer season, you possibly can take a look at the beautiful and highly effective Wildlife Photographer of the 12 months exhibition (£10 for adults youngsters free), whereas the Museum additionally hosts family-friendly workshops throughout college holidays, take a look at the web site for particulars. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-5pm, however closed on Mondays.
Go to the Nationwide Museum Cardiff web site.
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- Museum of Cardiff
The Previous Library, The Hayes, Cardiff, CF10 1BH
There are buses to the town centre from all throughout Cardiff. See the web site or app for ones out of your space.
Previously the Cardiff Story, everybody who lives in Cardiff ought to go to this fascinating place, which is free to go to, at the very least as soon as. By means of hands-on reveals and interactive shows, it tells the historical past of our metropolis via the eyes of its folks. It’s nice for kids, with buttons to press, drawers to open and even period-style dressing up costumes and a play space with a picket path and kitchen.
Wednesdays throughout the summer season holidays (from 27 July to 31 August) will see craft classes for kids from 10am-3pm, costing £1 per youngster. The second Friday of every month – together with Friday 12 August – is Dinky Dragons, a devoted session for infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Drop in from 10am-3pm for mushy play and messy play, with Rhyme Time and Story time at 11am and 1pm.
Go to the Museum of Cardiff web site.
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- Cardiff Fortress
There are buses to the town centre from all throughout Cardiff. See the web site or app for ones out of your space.
One among my favorite issues about Cardiff is that we now have a citadel proper in the course of the town centre – simply yards from all of the retailers, eating places and pubs we now have this wonderful piece of historical past, and its grounds are at the moment free to go to for all (additionally supplying you with entry to the café and reward store). What’s extra, if you happen to reside or work in Cardiff you possibly can join a Fortress Key. For a one-off admin cost of £7 for adults (free for kids beneath 16) you possibly can go to the citadel totally free for 3 years. This consists of the Norman Maintain, the ornate Fortress Residences, the Firing Line Museum, the wartime shelters hidden throughout the citadel partitions, the battlement stroll, the Roman partitions, and extra. It’s a completely fascinating place to go to, with a lot historical past in a single place.
Go to the Cardiff Fortress web site.
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- Bute Park
There are buses to the town centre from all throughout Cardiff. See the web site or app for ones out of your space.
As if having a citadel in the course of the town centre isn’t good sufficient, Cardiff centre can be house to Bute Park, a 130 acre magnificence spot with grassland, wooded areas and the River Taff operating alongside it. There are paths for scooting and biking alongside, loads of wildlife to identify, bushes to climb, picket carvings to admire, in addition to two cafes (we particularly just like the Secret Backyard Café and all the bizarre bushes close by that are nice for climbing on and in). Look out for the picket impediment course, large image body, the stays of Blackfriars Abbey, Pumba the warthog, the wobbly bridge, plus uncommon bushes and beautiful floral shows.
Learn extra about a few of our favorite issues at Bute Park right here.
Go to the Bute Park web site.
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- Mermaid Quay and Cardiff Bay Barrage
The Baycar leaves the town centre each quarter-hour, from St Mary Avenue to Cardiff Bay, plus there are different route from different elements of the town that additionally head on to Cardiff Bay.
Alight the bus exterior Wales Millennium Centre and stroll across the lovely Glanfa lobby of Wales’ flagship arts venue. Regulate the web site for particulars of free household craft actions throughout college holidays, or deal with your loved ones to a present (Disney’s The Lion King is on this summer season).
Roald Dahl Plass, exterior Wales Millennium Centre, is house to the Cardiff Bay Household Enjoyable Park this summer season. Open from Friday 15 July till Sunday 4 September, anticipate rides, video games and different funfair amusements.
You’re additionally spoiled for selection with eating places and cafes each in Mermaid Quay and on the Purple Dragon Centre, the place you too can catch the most recent summer season blockbusters or Hollywood Bowl.
The Senedd – the house of Welsh politics – is open over the summer season holidays too, with free entry, craft and animation actions, guides excursions and exhibitions. See senedd.wales/go to for data.
From right here, it’s a brief stroll to Cardiff Bay Barrage, passing the attractive Norwegian Church. There’s lots to do alongside the barrage together with a big playground, skate park, a life-sized Huge Crocodile you possibly can sit on and take a selfie with, out of doors health club gear, plus you too can obtain the Tiger Bay Trails app and seek for digital animals together with a tiger close to the skate park.
Over the summer season, you too can go to Aquapark Cardiff, an inflatable impediment course within the waters of the Bay open each day from 8 July till 31 August and weekends solely from 5 to 18 September (from £20 per particular person).
Learn extra about our favorite issues to do on Cardiff Bay Barrage right here,
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- Roath Lake
Routes 28, 28A and 28B from the town centre
An actual magnificence spot within the north of the town, stroll across the lake and see the well-known Scott Memorial Lighthouse (inbuilt 1914-15 to commemorate Captain Scott’s ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic from Cardiff in 1910), whizz down the well-known large slide and scale the spider’s internet climbing body within the playground, discover the pleasure gardens, go to the conservatory (adults £2.10, youngsters £1.05) the place you possibly can see terrapins, fish, whistling geese and unique vegetation and bushes. Terra Nova café serves drinks, snacks and meals (their pizzas are actually good!) or purchase an ice cream from the ice cream van or store.
View our Instagram Reel of seven issues to not miss if you go to to Roath Lake right here.
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- Insole Courtroom
Fairwater Street, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2LN
Buses 25, 62, 63 and 66 all cease a few minutes’ stroll away from Insole Courtroom (see the web site for instructions from the bus stops)
The grounds of Insole Courtroom are nice to discover all 12 months spherical, however its particularly beautiful in the summertime with the ornate gardens excellent for a picnic and a soothing afternoon within the solar. The location reopened in 2016 following an enormous restoration and renewal spearheaded by area people campaigners. In addition to the attractive grounds, look out for group enjoyable days, movie screenings, concert events and so forth. There’s a café onsite, plus This Home Is A Stage, an immersive expertise of round 40 minutes which permits guests to discover elements of the primary flooring of the home for the primary time because the Nineteen Seventies. The experiential walk-through audio drama brings native historical past to life within the type of a dramatic rendition of the rise and the autumn of the Insole Household. Adults £5, youngsters beneath 16 £2.50.
This summer season additionally sees a theatre manufacturing of Alice By means of The Wanting Glass and Into Wonderland, from Wednesday 3-Sunday 7 August, an immersive walkaround manufacturing which sees audiences transferring across the park from scene to scene.
Go to the Insole Courtroom web site.
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- Victoria Park splash pad and playground
Victoria Park Rd E, Cardiff CF5 1EH
Routes 1, 2, 13, 15, 17, 18, 61, 64, 96, 96A
With its splash pad and big playground, Victoria Park is without doubt one of the hottest parks in Cardiff – and straightforward to get to by bus. The splash pad options 33 water options for kids of all ages to take pleasure in together with sprays, jets and a tipping bucket, whereas the playground has a variety of kit for youthful and older youngsters.
There’s additionally loads of house for picnics and taking part in round, a ravishing forged iron bandstand, a statue of Billy the Seal (the park’s most well-known previous resident), plus a kiosk serving ice lotions, drinks, chips and extra.
Through the summer season holidays and at weekends the splash pad is open from 10am-7pm (12pm-7pm on weekdays in time period time). Wednesdays throughout college holidays, it’s open from 11am-7pm with 10am-11am a devoted relaxed session for kids with further wants. The splash pad can be closed from Sunday 4 September. Extra data on Victoria Park right here.
Learn extra about visiting Victoria Park right here.
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- Parc Cefn Onn
Lisvane, Cardiff CF14 0EP
Routes 27, 28, 28A and 28B all cease a couple of minutes’ stroll away from Cefn Onn’s entrance
Nestled on the sting of Thornhill and Lisvane, Parc Cefn Onn is a Grade 2 listed nation park which is gorgeous to discover at any time of the 12 months on account of its many diversified bushes and plant species. Initially designed round 100 years in the past in a valley across the Nant Fawr stream, the nation park incorporates a powerful assortment of native and unique bushes, a pond and streams, winding paths, an deserted summer season home and many to discover. You may also comply with the youngsters’s explorer path across the park, looking for the particular signal posts with photos of the assorted wildlife and tree/plant species discovered on the park.
See our go to to Cefn Onn on this Instagram Reel.
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- Llandaff Fields, Pontcanna
Pontcanna, Cardiff, CF11 9HZ
Bus routes 24, 62 and 63
Acres of grassy fields, a newly refurbished giant playground with separate areas for youthful and older youngsters, and woods to discover, Llandaff Fields is ideal for household day journeys or assembly up with family and friends. The lengthy pathways across the fringe of the park are nice for biking or scooting alongside. Café Castan supplies drinks and sizzling/chilly meals together with pizzas, and has bathroom services out there.
Learn extra about Llandaff Fields right here.
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- St Fagans Nationwide Museum of Historical past
St Fagans, Cardiff, CF5 6XB
The quantity 32 service launches on Monday 1 August 2022, operating from the town centre to St Fagans through Canton and Fairwater.
St Fagans Nationwide Museum of Historical past is an open air museum which actually brings Welsh historical past to life. The attractive grounds are house to greater than 50 buildings together with farm homes, miners’ cottages, retailers, a chapel, a mill and a faculty, nearly all of which have been rigorously deconstructed from their authentic places throughout Wales after which reconstructed on the museum’s web site and furnished as they’d have been throughout their heyday. Having the ability to stroll across the buildings and see how issues would have seemed immediately conjures up what life was like in years passed by. More moderen additions embrace the Iron Age spherical homes, Llys Llewelyn, a medieval prince’s courtroom primarily based on archaeological excavations of from Llys Rhosyr on Anglesey, and three indoor galleries exploring what life has been like for folks in Wales over the centuries. There’s loads of house for picnics, a standard bakery promoting contemporary bread and different merchandise, plus a big cafeteria. The museum can be house to Coed Lan excessive ropes, priced £15 per particular person.
Go to the St Fagans Nationwide Museum of Historical past web site.
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- Quarry Dale Park, Rumney
Tredelerch Street, Rumney
Bus routes 30, 45, 49, 50
The massive slide is without doubt one of the highlights of the youngsters’s playground at this beautiful park. You’ll additionally discover climbing frames and different gear, in addition to loads of house for picnics and taking part in. Close by is Rumney Hill Gardens, which you need to use as a place to begin to stroll alongside the Rhymney Path, a newly-established pathway which follows the river northwards from the coast. Additionally close by is Parc Tredelerch and its lovely lake.
Learn extra about Rumney Hill Gardens right here and Quarry
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- Barry Island
Whitmore Bay, Barry Island, CF62 5TJ
Route 95 from Wooden Avenue
Route 95 will take you from Wooden Avenue within the centre of Cardiff to Barry Island in round an hour. You’ll want the Household Day to Go Plus ticket if you happen to’re travelling between Cardiff and Barry ticketcosting £8 for a household of as much as 5 (most two adults with at the very least one youngster)
Cardiff Bus can take you on to the colorful seaside resort of Barry Island. Construct a sandcastle at Whitmore Bay, paddle within the sea, scale the climbing wall which spells out Barry Island and the Welsh Ynys Y Barri, plus rely the brightly colored seashore huts. Deliver a picnic or dine at one of many many seaside café, chip retailers and ice cream retailers. Plus there’s additionally the fairground and a number of other video games arcades.
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- Penarth Pier
The Esplanade, Penarth, CF64 3AU
Route 99 heads from Wyndham Arcade to Penarth Pier through Cardiff Bay, taking round half an hour. Buses 92, 93 and 94 all journey from Cardiff to Penarth centre.
Penarth is a beautiful spot for a summer season go to. You possibly can stroll alongside the Victorian period pier, overlooking the Severn Estuary and perhaps even seize a cuppa or bag of chips from the kiosk. You may also stroll alongside the pebble seashore and, if you happen to’re feeling energetic, up the hill to the Cliff High Park the place there’s a playground appropriate for kids of all ages.
The attractive art-deco styled Penarth Pier Pavilion hosts cinema, artwork, theatre and different occasions all year long.
See our Instagram Reel of our current go to to Penarth Pier right here.
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- Cosmeston Lakes Nation Park and Medieval Village
Lavernock Rd, Penarth CF64 5UY
Route 94, from Wooden Avenue in Cardiff metropolis centre, stopping exterior Cosmeston Lakes, will take round 40 minutes.
We love Cosmeston for a household day trip, it’s such a ravishing and spacious place with lots to do for all ages. The lake right here was once a limestone quarry, now it’s the centre level for a 247-acre native nature reserve of woodlands and fields. There’s a implausible newly-refurbished playground space, picket boardwalks via the reeds and marshland the place you possibly can spot every kind of birds and wildlife, and woodlands to discover.
The reconstructed medieval village can be free to go to. Based mostly on the actual medieval village found throughout the growth of Cosmeston in 1978, it depicts what life was like in Cosmeston within the 12 months 1350.
Throughout native college holidays, Cosmeston hosts nature-themed actions, prebookable prematurely, some free, some ticketed. See the web site for particulars.
Learn our evaluate of Cosmeston Lakes and Medieval Village right here.
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