Kids Activities in Williamsburg, Virginia
Williamsburg, Virginia, is a city of approximately 14, 068 people, according to the 2010 US Census. Williamsburg is located on the Virginia Peninsula, in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia. Well-known for Colonial Williamsburg, a restored historical site, Williamsburg has a number of family-oriented activities for travelers with children.
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Historic Sites
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Colonial Williamsburg is a restored historical wonderland offering a variety of daily attractions, including walking tours, military exercises, fife and drum parades, and arts performances. The Colonial Williamsburg Visitor's Center can provide you with updated schedules for children's activities, and at the same time rent period costumes for your kids to wear during their visit. There are numerous museums in Colonial Williamsburg, including the Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, and Bassett Hall.
Mini Golf
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Pirate's Cove in Williamsburg, "the Original Adventure Golf," will offer your children a mini golfing experience to remember. The Pirate's Cove mini golf course is decorated with sunken ships, waterfalls, streams, pirate exploits and pirate-themed landscaping. Children will delight in the canon fire from a pirate sailing upstream on his raft. The attraction is open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
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Water Parks
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Take the children to enjoy a day of excitement at the Water Country USA Waterpark. Located a few minutes from Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Water Country USA offers more than 30 water slides for children to choose from. The water park also offers live entertainment and on-site restaurants. For accommodations and a water park, you can head to the Great Wolf Lodge, where the children can spend the day with eight slides, five pools, a giant water fort, and a lazy river, then retire to a family suite when the family gets tired.
Busch Gardens
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Busch Gardens Williamsburg offers families dozens of rides to entertain thrill-seekers. Children can spend the day enjoying the rides such as the Mach Tower, Der Katapult, and the Flying Machine. They can also take in live entertainment such as Sesame Street Presents: Lights, Camera, Imagination! or Celtic Fyre, a celebration filled with Irish dance and singing. While at Busch Gardens, kids can also enjoy Animal Encounters, which includes attractions such as Eagle Ridge and Jack Hanna's Wild Reserve. Touch-n-go technology allows you to swipe a card to gain access to the park, allowing you to go back and forth between Busch Gardens and the nearby Water Country USA.
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum
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Take your kids on a truly unique adventure while in Williamsburg, visiting the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum. Tour the Odditorium, where your family can take in thousands of unusual artifacts from around the world. Take the kids to see the 4D Theater, where they can watch a show with 3D glasses while getting blasted with air, misted with water, tickled, and subjected to a host of other fun sensory experiences.
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