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Staying with children

Find out session times for the Kids' Zone, family drop-in sessions, early supper offerings and FAQ's for your upcoming stay. 

Kids' Zone sessions

October half term

Family sessions

Early supper

Baby sitting and baby monitoring

Surfing lessons

Kids' Zone

Upcoming daily sessions from 2 September to 18 October

Sunday to Thursday
Toddlers (6m-2yrs):
 8.30-10am OR 10.30-12pm and 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm
Kids (3-8yrs): 8.30-10am OR 10.30-12pm and 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm

Friday and Saturday
Toddlers (6m-2yrs):
 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm
Kids (3-8yrs): 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm and 6-9pm
XA Club (8-12yrs): 6-9pm

Make the most of some child-free time. Lunch with a sea view, take a treatment or your pre-dinner drinks - we'll take care of the rest.

Book through our app or with our Kids team kidszone@watergatebay.co.uk

September & October

A full programme of Julia Donaldson inspired fun

For Toddlers and Kids:

  • Calming ‘Under the sea’ Yoga

  • Join our sounds of the sea percussion band

  • Tiddler beach scavenger hunts

  • Bubble wrap and shell printing

For XA Club (Friday & Saturday):

  • Get competitive with a series of story themed games and challenges

  • Cinema Club with nachos, pick ‘n’ mix and milkshakes

For Toddlers and Kids:

  • Join us for a Gruffalo yoga adventure

  • Make, bake and taste some ‘Gruffalo’ crumble

  • Bring the Gruffalo characters to life through junk modelling, music and dance

  • Explore woodland inspired sensory tuff trays

For XA Club (Friday & Saturday):

  • Use your golden tickets to come and help our ‘Oompa Loompa’s’ create some chocolatey treats

  • Cinema Club with a Roald Dahl inspired ‘buffet’ and movie. Think Wonka pick ‘n’ mix, goose liver donuts and George’s Marvellous drinks station

For Toddlers and Kids:

  • Whale yoga, music and movement – can you make your own whale music?

  • Learn about sea life conservation through our sensory tuff trays

  • Interactive snail and whale puppet making and storytelling

  • Get creative with some beach art storyboards and snail inspired snacks

For XA Club (Friday & Saturday):

  • Get competitive with sports themed games, challenges and a quiz

  • Bringing the spirit of American Football to our Cinema Club special ‘Remember the Titans’ and game time snacks – hotdogs, popcorn and milkshakes.

For Toddlers and Kids:

  • Join  ‘Tiny the T-Rex’ for a yoga adventure in the dinosaur park

  • Create some tasty Pterodactyl’s through fruit and biscuit art

  • Dig out your inner archaeologist for some beach fossil hunting (should this be palaeontologist???)

  • Thinking about our emotions and making artwork about our thoughts

For XA Club (Friday & Saturday):

  • Let them eat cake! Celebrate MacMillian’s cake and coffee morning with a traditional bake-off

  • Calling all mad hatters – join us down the rabbit hole for our Cinema Club with a screening of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.

 

For Toddlers and Kids:

  • Insect inspired food art

  • Making our own living wormeries

  • Superworm comic strips and story capes

  • Wiggly worm sensory exploration

For XA Club (Friday & Saturday)

  • Rustle up some autumnal treats for our harvest bake-off

  • Celebrate world animal day with our Cinema Club treat of ‘Born to be Wild’ with nachos, pick ‘n’ mix and hot chocolate.

For Toddlers and Kids:

  • Fire breathing dragon yoga

  • Creating clay dragons and fire gloop

  • Music and movement puppet dances

  • Learn to fence like Sir Gadabout, whilst making your own swords and shields

For XA Club:

  • Join us for International Astronomy Day with our space themed challenge and quiz night

  • Explore the depths of outer space through our Cinema Club. Kick back with ‘Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy’ and snacks that are out of this world.

  • Make your own natural ‘broomstick’ paintbrushes

  • Story sequencing with story pebbles and story spoons

  • Designing and making magic wands

  • Balancing experiments through seesaw inspired challenges

October half term

Live music in the Living Space Snug, colourful happenings firing up young minds in the Kids’ Zone and even a DIY hot chocolate station for everyone to enjoy, find out what's going on in the Bay this October half term.

With Halloween weekend falling in half term, get ready for a selection of ghostly goings-on for everyone to get their fangs into.

Session Times for October half term:

Toddlers: 3.30-5pm

Kids: 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm AND 6-9pm

XA Club: 1.30-3pm AND 6-9pm

19 October- 3 November

Roald Dahl’s phizz-whizzing fun:

DT Challenge – Using pulley systems to make your own ‘glass’ elevators.

Willy Wonka Playdough workshops – think strawberry-wiffle, mint-fizzwangler and blueberry-snozztastic.

Chocolate Quiz night

Creating our own mischievous tricks

DT challenge Junk model upside down houses and making glue from milk

Concertina crocodile puppets

Junk model crocodile seesaws

Experimenting with camouflage

Making our own wormeries and investigating worms

Try to make a peach fly using helium

Design and test a parachute for a peach

Potion making using the most delicious or disgusting smelling ingredients.

Wand whittling

Potion and spell books

Slime Lab – making, handling, stretching and blowing  

Sherbet making without the sour faces

'Bubbleology’ Have a go at making the teeniest/humungous bubbles and bubble caterpillars

Magic Mocktails – colour changing and blindfold taste testing

Family sessions

October half term

Family bodyboarding with Wavehunters

19 & 26 October and 1 November - 3.30pm.

Pancake art

Tuesday 22 October - 9.30, 10 & 10.30am in the games room

Dragonfly Family Yoga

Thursday 24 October, 9.30-10.15am

DIY Hot Chocolate

25 October and 1 November in The Dining Room

BFG dream jars and catchers

26 October between 9.30am and 11am. Drop in - the games room

Spooky lantern making

28 October at 9.30am in the games room

Pumpkin carving and decorating

31 October between 9.30am and 11am. Drop in - the games room.

31 October: Halloween Spooky Science Lab Party

·      1.30-3pm: Early Halloween party for little mischief makers *Fancy dress encouraged

·      3.30-6.30pm: Face Painting in the Snug *3 years plus

·      5-6pm: Spooky Early Supper in the dining room. Gruesome grills and dastardly delights *Fancy dress encouraged

·      6-9pm: Wacky Science parties for our older crazy scientists. *Fancy dress encouraged

Early supper

Everyday: 19 October - 3 November

Time: 5pm-6pm in The Dining Room

Price: Under 2yrs - £4, 3yrs+ £15

A three-course buffet with complimentary unlimited tea for the adults. Think Taco Tuesdays and Fish Fridays with a build-your-own ice cream station.

Book on the app or with our team tellus@watergatebay.co.uk

Baby monitoring

Subject to availability, we have a baby monitoring camera and tablet we can provide for your room. On its own private network, the tablet will work across all three of our restaurants and areas of the hotel. 

Baby sitting

For babysitting requests, complete our enquiry form

Prices
2hrs: £35
3hrs: £52.50
4hrs: £70

Same-day cancellations: £35

Surfing lessons and hire

  • Beginner lessons, learn how to pop up to your feet, available for ages 7 years and older. 

  • Private lessons for the whole family, or one on one tuition. 

  • Two-hour group lessons are £45

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For families

Kids' Zone

Kids' Zone sessions from 6 months to 12 yrs included with every stay.

The Kids Zone

Surf lessons

Year-round surf lessons for 7yrs+ with all the kit to keep you warm.

Surf lessons

Family suites

Time together and time apart with separate bunk bed rooms.

Family suites

Baby monitoring and babysitting

Available on request, camera and tablet for your room and babysitting.

More details

Swim Club

25-metre ocean view swimming pool with shallow section for children.

Swim Club

Restaurants

Three different restaurants with children's menus and a buffet-style early supper during school holidays.

Food & drink

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