One thing London is really great for is offering amazing immersive experiences. Here are some of our favourites :
Paddington Bear Experience – Step into Paddington’s world with an adventure through London and Peru! We explored interactive sets with live performances, and themed activities inspired by the marmelade-loving bear.
Location: County Hall, Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 7PB, nearest tube Waterloo
Opening: Open daily from 10am,
Duration : 70 mins
Age: All ages, under 2s are free
Cost: Adult £34, children £24
Bubble Planet Experience – an immersive, multi-sensory experience where visitors walk through 11 glowing, colourful rooms filled with bubbles, lights, and playful installations. It’s both magical and surreal and great for families, photos, and interactive fun! The best bit is the huge ball pit!
Book using my the discount code BubbleLon15.
Lcoation: Near Wembley Park tube 22 Fulton Rd, Wembley
Duration: 60 – 90 mins
Age: All ages, under 4s are free
Cost: £13.90 for children and £17.90 for adults
Frameless – Immersive art experience where classic masterpieces are brought to life through projections and surround sound. Multi-sensory tots classes every Friday morning.
Location: 6 Marble Arch
Opening: Open daily times vary
Duration : Allow two hours
Age: All ages
Cost: £18 or children and £28 for adults
Shrek Adventure London – An interactive walk-through experience where visitors join a live fairy-tale journey with characters like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and of course Shrek and Donkey. There’s storytelling, actors, and themed sets to create a full 4D expereince and fun, immersive journey for kids. Oscar and Noah loved it!
Location: Riverside Building, County HallWestminster Bridge Road
Opening: Open daily times vary
Duration: 60 mins
Age: All ages under 2 are free. Recommended for age 6 plus but Oscar loved it
Cost: From £24 for adults £18.50 for children
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Tour
Tottenham Fans (like my husband) can truly immerse themselves in the world of the game with this behind the scenes tour of the new state-of-the-art Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
From the gym and changing rooms to the premium members area, Tunnel Club , it was so fun to see behind the scenes. We saw the Europa League trophy before running down the tunnel and onto the pitch! The stadium is next-level. Built for £1.2 billion, it’s the 3rd largest in England and home to the world’s first retractable pitch. We got to test the media zone, stand in the famous South Stand and we saw the actual ball being used that night!The Goal Line Bar is the longest in Europe and pours pints at super speed. Plus, there’s a Beavertown brewery inside producing up to 1 million pints a year.
While I skipped the Dare Skywalk , Mr S climbed to the top of the stadium and got to see the iconic Spurs rooster up close.
Location: Easiest by public transport nearest tube Tottenham Hale or White Hart Lane overground
Opening: Dates and times vary
Age: All ages technically but I would suggest over 5
Cost: There are different types of ticket our Match Day tour is from £50, a VIP tour is £65, the longer Technical Tour is £120. The Dare Skywalk is from £37.40.
Seven Wonders of the World: An Immersive Exhibition – Did you know you can see all the wonders of the world in one afternoon without leaving London?
Recently Oscar told me that history was his favourite subject at school and with him currently learning about ancient Egypt, a visit to Seven Wonders of the World, a new immersive exhibition in London was perfect timing. It features the Seven Ancient and New Wonders of the World.
Many of the wonders are on my own bucket list but I haven’t had a chance to visit (I’ve only been to the Colosseum in Rome) so this experience gave me the chance to find out the history of the wonders, interact with exhibitions (such as build our own pyramids and touch the Hanging Gardens…. ) I learnt some fascinating facts, for example did you know that the hanging gardens of Babylon might not have actually existed, there’s no architectural evidence!
The highlight for me was the VR experience, you genuinely feel like you’re inside the wonders (be warned it’s so realistic it even sparked my fear of heights!) and finally we stepped inside a 360 video featuring all the wonders)
Use my code for 10% discount: WONLON10
Location: 106 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LZ
Duration: 70 mins
Price : From £21. 90 per adult, child £16.90. Under 4 is free.
Mundo Pixar – The Mundo Pixar Experience allows fans to actually step inside their favourite Pixar Films. There are 14 Pixar Universes with over 25 sculptures – allowing for lots of photo opportunities of course.
Did you know that Pixar was founded 40 years ago? Making it part of my childhood too, the first ever feature film being Toy Story which is also first fully computer-animated feature film.
As well as Toy Story (and a visit to Andy’s Room) guests can explore recreated ‘sets’ from Monsters Inc, Cars, Finding Nemo, Inside Out and many more. Each with details designed, music and even scents making it a fully immersive sensory experience.
Location: Fulton Road, Wembley, HA9 0TF
Date: Opens 13th Feb
Price: Adult £29, £20 child (under 3s are free)
Step inside the Twist museum, a place full of mind bending illusions and immersive artwork.
The name “TWIST” stands for “The Way I See Things,” reflecting on the museum’s focus on how our brains interpret the world around us.
There are over 80 exhibits and the museum offers an assortment of sensory experiences that challenge visitors’ perceptions of colour, sound, space, and more. The interactive illusions were perfect to spark a curious mind like Oscar’s and through kaleidoscopes, mirror mazes, and floating shadows his imagination truly took flight. For a toddler like Noah, the Twist museum is a giant sensory playground of vibrant colours and lights.
Right on London’s Oxford street this interactive exhibition is the perfect location to entertain the kids.
Location: 248 Oxford St, London W1C 1DH
Opening: Times vary
Duration: 1hr – 1.5hr
Age: All ages, under 3s are free
Cost: Adult £27.50 children £21
Moco Museum – A modern, contemporary, and digital immersive art museum in London featuring iconic artists like Warhol, Haring, Banksy, Basquiat, Kusama, etc. While not strictly for children, the interactive art and displays will inspire them! I suggest combining with Frameless which is nearby.
Location: Marble Arch
Price: Vary, under 4s are free.
My two little boys are mad on Peppa Pig and the afternoon tea was the perfect treat for Little Noah’s 2nd birthday. We’ve actually done it before a few years ago when Oscar was three and before Noah was born so I already knew how much fun it was.
As well as having a tour guide who plays Peppa Pig themed games with the children there is an animated screen at every seat featuring escapades of Peppa and her friends.The tea itself is really high-quality. The boys love the mini pizzas and finger sandwiches and the Peppa theme cakes and biscuits. We also loved it when warm scones we’re bought out
I just can’t recommend the afternoon tea enough, it’s perfect for little Peppa fans and ideal as a first ever afternoon tea. Though little Noah has already tried his fair share of afternoon teas!
Location: Victoria Embankment / Somerset House
Opening: Daily times vary
Duration: 90 mins
Age: Childen must be over 2.
Cost: Adult £48 Children £43
Babylon – A theme park that is entirely indoors with a fun space theme. There’s lots of attractions such as an indoor roller coaster (thrill seeking Oscar loved this!), bumper cars, video games plus a soft play. There’s lots for toddlers too and Noah liked the carousel.
Location: 8 Castlehaven Road, Camden
You can pay as you go or buy time-based passes for unlimited access.
Age: All ages.
Price: Park entry is free but you pay for the attractions.
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