Mini golf with a budget: two 18-hole courses, the Rapids and the Volcano, wind past life-sized dinosaurs on the edge of TraffordCity, next to the Trafford Golf Centre driving range. It works from about age 3, toddlers can walk round free, and no one needs to have held a putter before.
Adults pay £10, under 16s £8, and a family of four plays one course for £32. Finish a course and the second is half price the same day, which is how most visits with keen kids end up going. It opens from 7am daily with last rounds an hour before close, parking is free, and the whole place is card only.
It is outdoors, so pick your weather, though the courses are lit after dark and a floodlit round past a T. rex has its own appeal. The golf centre's bar and kitchen handles the post-match debrief.
What it costs: Adults £10; under 16s, students and over 65s £8; family of four £32; extra children £5 each. Non-playing spectators £4, and babies and little ones who do not play go free. Play one course and the second is half price on the same day.
Worth knowing: Under 12s need an adult with them.
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