Edinburgh’s Christmas opened today in East Princes Street Gardens and some attractions on Princes Street. One half of Edinburgh Spotlight with a 4 year old member of the family went to check it out.
Snowglobe, Princes Street
Radio Forth were broadcasting their daily show from Princes Street, beside the snowglobe that you can climb into and get your picture taken amongst the artificial snow.
In Princes Street Gardens themselves, you have the ice rink and big wheel alongside other rides for younger children,
A token operated system is in force where you buy as many as you think you’ll need and hand over tokens to the people on the attraction you want to go on.
Token booth
The games stall and the ‘Christmas Pudding’ cost £2.50 each, no discount for smaller people, with the rest of the children’s attractions costing £2.00. Why not try to find your way through the Ice Maze ? It’s harder than you think !
Ice Maze, Winter Wonderland
I went on the ‘Christmas Pudding’ (formerly the apple roller coaster) with the 4 year old roving reporter and we were the only ones on it so grabbed the seat at the front. We went round a total of 3 times and you do get a good view from the higher part of the coaster.
On the Christmas Pudding !
It certainly wasn’t the scariest roller coaster in the world and was probably about the limit of a 4 year old who didn’t find it scary, despite my screams pretending I was ! Definitely one for the youngsters.
The big wheel and the helter skelter were to wait for another day, but did look good all set up. You pay for these rides direct to their booths, no token system for these.
Helter skelter
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