An award winning visitor centre on Plymouth Hoe offering a journey through 400 years of local history. Features include the voyages of Drake, Cook, the Pilgrims and the devastation of the Blitz
The Barbican village is an essential first port of call for your visit. Where Drake and Raleigh once weighed anchor, today you can find a bustling community of specialist shops, restaurants, cafés and world-class attractions, all in a picturesque harbour setting.
Plymouths most famous landmark. Smeaton´s Tower was moved stone by stone from its original site on the treacherous Eddystone Rocks (14 miles south west of Plymouth) to its present location on Plymouth Hoe.
Climb the 93 steps and experience life at the top! Enjoying spectacular panoramic city views and beyond to Dartmoor, Plymouth Sound and Cornwall.
Great combination of indoor and outdoor attractions.
All weather fun guaranteed with an outstanding combination of indoor and outdoor attractions.
The 3 watercoasters, 500m Toboggan Run and Arctic Gliders are everyone´s favourites. Hidden in beautiful woodland setting are 15 playzones including Commando Course, Action Tracks and Tango Trolls Mystic Maze with masses of surprise. Superb range of zones for under fives. Excellent indoor falconry Centre with flying displays.
Plymouth Gin is the only English Gin still made in its original distillery. Visit the distillery and learn about the history of Plymouth Gin, and all about the flavours and qualities, which make it so special.
The Garden House is a magical place: a place designed to meld with its surrounding landscape to create an almost ethereal beauty; a place where luxuriant, brilliant colour creates unforgettable panoramas; a place where the past meets the present and stands at the gate of a bright future.
Discover a city set amidst some of England´s most glorious countryside.
The City Centre boasts all the major chainstores, many department stores and a multitude of independents making it the largest shopping centre in the region. Sample the hustle and bustle of outdoor markets and craft fairs the city plays host to throughout the year. Browse around the many stalls of the vibrant and lively indoor Pannier Market selling goods ranging from fresh produce to ´bric a brac´.
The National Marine Aquarium was the first aquarium in the United Kingdom to be set up for the purpose of education, conservation and research.
It remains Britain´s foremost aquarium and in the four years it has been open it has attracted over one and half million visitors through its door and thousands of enquiries by letter, telephone, fax and email.
Dartmoor is one of the finest and largest National Parks in Britain and the last great wilderness in Southern England.
The landscape is unique with its high heather-covered moors, ancient standing stones, hut circles and stone clapper bridges. It feels like another world.
