Apple Jacks Farm

This place is a gem to visit with as a family we’ve visited Apple Jacks a number of times last being yesterday for my daughters birthday inviting a few of her friends and there family’s and every time we’ve been its been an absolute pleasure. Not only are there plenty of activities for the kids with the ability for adults to share the fun there staff presence and customer service is excellent with someone always available to assist. Although it’s quite a large open place you have a sense of security that the little ones can stray that little further as they are generally within eye shot or failing that yelling distance :)
I highly recommend Apple Jacks as a fun family day out as long as the weather is on your side.

I took my partner and her 12 yr old daughter to the scary night event on Oct 31^st Oct. This is defiantly NOT one for younger children.
Positive aspects: Very entertaining for adults and older teenagers.
Food and drinks available at reasonable cost.
Toilet (portacabins) on site but these are in typical portabin hygiene standard.
Negative aspects: Narrow, very dark and constricted walk ways would make it impossible for disabled visitors to get around.
No warning of stroboscopic lighting being used in very narrow and constricted walk ways in the haunted house is a potential hazard to photo sensitive epileptic suffers.
Staff within the haunted house wearing horror character costumes and weapons do not listen to concerned parents as they push and push to scare accompanied young children to tears of terror.
Un-​illuminated and no signs in car park.
Very muddy in parts (but this is a farm)
No reply to emailed enquiries post visit.
Telephone enquiries are directed to an orange answer machine and get no reply.
At £52 for three this is a bit expensive for a low budget in apearance scare.
Summary: If you want a potentially hazardous but defiantly scary night I would recommend the event. But I would not recommend the Oct 31^st night time event to anybody with mobility difficulties, photo sensitive epilepsy or those with a vulnerable disposition. And no way would I recommend this for young children below 16 years. The event does things in the old fashioned way post health and safety commission and disability legislative requirements. In other words they maximise the scare factor but this may be at the expense of other considerations.

A fantastic fun day for the whole family. We spent 4 hours there and didn’t get to see everything because we simply ran out of energy. From archery, a tractor ride, a huge hay stack to climb, roller skating, go carting and play areas. The highlight of the day was the giant bouncy pillow — a great experience for both children and adults.
We watched the Wild West show with the great cowboy Apple Jack (huray!)and the bad guy sheriff (boo!) and the kids just loved it. The only set back as far as I was concerned was there wasn’t enough seating. There was plenty of space for more benches, they just hadn’t been provided.
There is a great inside /​outside picnic area and plenty of bins are provided so it was nice and clean.
The grand finale for us was the Amazing Maize Maze. On entry you are given a large flag to wave if you get lost so I was relieved we wouldn’t spend hours stuck in there. However, after 10 minutes of waving we gave up and carried on. Then a further 5 minutes of flag waving was ignored. I finally managed to find an employee to help us only to be told to find our own way out. Why hadn’t I thought of that before?
On top of all of that we couldn’t access many passages in the maze because we had a pram. Not very family friendly of them in that area!
But all in all we had a fantastic day. We just wish someone had told us to take our wellies and a spare pair of socks.

Great entertainment for all ages. This farm has an amazing maize maze in the summer with themed attractions. it then does Spply World for Halloween, An this year is opening a skiing theme. well worth a visit