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Peppa Pig World | Paultons Park

A throwback post

Back in April, we wanted to bring Izzy somewhere for a day to have fun before she started nursery school.  It so happened that lockdown was easing just before that and so I managed to buy some tickets for us to Peppa Pig World.  This is housed within a bigger theme park called Paultons Park in Southampton, so about a 2h drive away.  Seeing how much Izzy loves Peppa Pig, we thought it would be a fun day out for her.  Gabriel on the other hand, had not much clue and just trooped along, bless him.  He was a bit under the weather but he soldiered on like a champ.

I also arranged to meet a friend Urvashi and her family at the park, as her son likes George.  I had no seen her in ages too, so it was a good time to meet up.  The weather was beautiful that day and we did one pit stop to stretch our legs.  The really good thing about Izzy and Gabriel is that they are okay with long car rides.  As long as there are snacks, they are fine.

Pit stop to grab some snacks and stretch our legs

 
 
When we arrived, we saw all the cars pulling up to park in the huge field and everyone scrambling out with their pushchairs and buggies.  It was evident many were there with young kids all going to find Peppa.  It was a strange sight to behold as we have not seen that many people in many months lol.  But also felt nice to get back some sort of normalcy, like "hey we get to enjoy a theme park!"

  
Grandpa Pig's house

 
The entire theme park is massive, but knowing we were there for Peppa Pig World (PPW), we didnt have any time for the rides outside PPW.  The queues were long and averaging 20-30min for each ride. Only towards the end of the day did the queue times taper down as families headed back home.  We took a couple of rides and walked around.  Of course with hot and sunny weather, Izzy kept pestering daddy for an ice cream.  We didn't take many photos that day because all our phones were on low battery for most part of the day.  It's obvious we haven't been out of the house for way too long - didn't occur to us to bring a power bank!  Duh.. literally both K and my phone died and we had to make sure we didn't lose each other, or else I wouldn't know how we could find each other in the crowd.




We took this hot air balloon ride

With Belinda Bear!





We arrived about 11am and left at 6pm just when the doors were closing.  Thankfully the queue of cars out weren't too bad.  It was nice to get to know Urvashi's husband and kids better that day, and both our husbands couldn't stop chatting even all the way at the carpark.  We decided to reconvene at a service stop and have dinner together.



We sat under these beautiful tall trees by sunset eating our KFC burgers.  I took these photos and love how they turned out.

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A post update

So it's been more than three months since our trip to PPW, and of late Gabriel has started to show a keen interest in Peppa.  He screams with joy when he sees Peppa on the TV and points and says "Peppa Pig!" followed by two cute snorts.  I'm thinking we need to plan another trip back at some point...

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Gcroft said…
So much fun! Peppa Pig was a popular feature in our family too. We never made it out to Peppa Pig World unfortunately. Glad to see the kids (and parents) had a great time!
8 August 2021 at 07:45
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