Gift Exeriences | Experience Days

So you think you have the stomach to try a tandem skydive but need to find a skydiving in Scotland location, well “lucky” for you we have the answer for you

Skydiving in Scotland

Listed below are locations where skydiving in Scotland takes place:

Skydive Strathallan - Located 5 miles from Auchterarder. This is a central Scotland location about half way between the towns of Perth and Stirling.
Skydive Strathallan, Strathallan Airfield, Near Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, PH3 1LA.

Paragon Skydiving - Located in Perthshire.
Errol Airfield, Grange, Perthshire, PH2 7TB, Scotland

Skydive St Andrews
Kingsmuir Air Field, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9QQ
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For those wanting to try the extreme sport of Zorbing in or around London then you are in luck.

Zorbing London

Zorbing/Sphereing locations include Hertfordshire & Oxfordshire in the South East meaning that a short commute is all that is needed from London to prepare you for your roll down a hill in a ball experience

The Zorbing experience can also be done at these locations with an added bucket of water to make it into an Aqua-Zorbing experience.

You can buy a Zorbing London experience online with prices starting from around £50: Buy London Zorbing experience

The Activity Superstore are a UK online gift experience store who specialise in providing gift experiences from Zorbing and skydiving to more relaxing experience such as Hot Air Balloon rides.

Activity Superstore

The Activity Superstore was set up in 1997 and currently provides gift experiences to over 100,000 customers each year, and have a strap-line of “Live The Dream”!

On ordering from the Activity Superstore customers have the option to go for a standard voucher pack with personalised voucher or for £3.95 they can go for a special boxed tin option that contains a desktop calendar as well as the activity voucher.

The majority of the gift vouchers available come with a 9 month valid period, to extend the voucher for an extra 6 months can be done but a charge of £15 is required, so it makes sense to try and use the experience gift voucher sooner rather than later.

Many people may have seen the Activity Superstore logo around, this is because they are the people behind the experiences you see for sale in places like John Lewis, Argos, Boots, Tescos & Debenhams!

Other similar merchants to the Activity Superstore are Buyagift UK.

To visit the activity superstore go to www.activitysuperstore.com

The Go Ape at Thetford Forest is the original location of the Go Ape adventures!

Go Ape Thetford

Thetford Forest in Suffolk is 50,000 acres of forest with 30 miles of bike and walking trails and is an ideal location to have an outdoors activity such as Go Ape!

The Go Ape at Thetford has a highest point from the ground of 11m (36 ft) and it’s longest zip wire is a whopping 133m (436 ft) giving you a very nice long fun ride!

Thetford Forest is around the following lengths of drive from the following locations:
London: 2.5 hours
Peterborough: 1.5 hours
Norwich: 1 hour
Cambridge: 1 hour

The price of the Go Ape adventure at Thetford Forest is £25 for over 18’s and £20 for those ages 10-17 years old.

If you want to get booked in then it is open from Friday March 27th until Sunday 1st November and open weekends throughout November. Opening hours (dependant upon light) is from 9am until 5pm although this can be extended from 8.30am until 6pm during the busier periods!

There is a whole range of different driving experience days in and around the London area and the South East of England.

Driving experiences in and near to London

For starters you have the famous Brands Hatch race circuit just 20 miles from London (as the crow flies) or Silverstone only 80 miles from London. These 2 race circuits are probably the most well known race circuits in the UK and are close enough to London to easily get to for a driving experience.

Taking a look through the various driving experiences near London available form BuyaGift UK that are available and you won’t be left short on choice. There is pretty much a full range of different driving experiences available for booking, including: Ferrari driving, Rally driving, Off-Road driving, Single seaters, young drive, Go-Karting (Daytona and Buckmore Park), Monster Truck driving, Supercar driving in Ferrari/Porsche/Aston Martin/Lamborghini, Quad biking, Caterhams, Tank & Military driving, Classic car & motorbikes!

Now if you can’t find a driving experience in that little lot that floats your boat then we think you should have a look at our extreme sports section instead.

If you don’t know when to take a gift experience then the answer is pretty much whenever you want.

Most gift experiences can be done most days of the week depending upon what it is, there are some exceptions to the case such as you may find some Bank Holidays could be out of the question.

When to take a gift experience

What you may also find with many gift experiences is that if you choose to do one midweek then the price may be slightly cheaper, obviously as there is less demand during the week for most things than there is of a weekend, plus costs tend to be more to employ people to work on a weekend so the slight increase in prices is understandable.

Just as an example, a Virgin Balloon Flight for one midweek costs around £145, for the same balloon flight with the availability of taking it at a weekend and the price is £165.

Many gift experiences are competitively priced to offer cheaper deals during the week as there is much more availability, this is especially the case with hotel related gift experiences such as Spa Breaks.

You may also find that some gift experiences don’t run on a weekend, or in fact some may only be weekend only due to lack of demand during the week.

If you purchase a gift experience voucher you should check how long it is valid for, looking on Buyagift many have a 10-12 month validity period where the experience needs to be taken before so to make sure you don’t lose it it is worthwhile making plans as soon as possible to find a date that is convenient to do the experience.

The title isn’t actually correct but we came across this funny picture and thought that we would put it up for some light humour!

The truth is that before going on a bungee jump the jumpers are weighed and height taken so that the correct bungee rope is used meaning that it is just as safe for larger people as it is for smaller lighter people.

The only physical & medical conditions that can stop a person from bungee jumping are: high blood pressure, heart condition, dizziness, epilepsy, pregnancy, asthma, neurological conditions or diabetes. Medical advice and a certificate should be sought for anyone who has damage to neck, back, legs, ankles or eyes!

The Chill FactorE isn’t just a home for skiers and snowboarders but also to climbers who can have a go on their indoor climbing wall!

You get yourself strapped up and in your safety gear and then you can tackle the 12 meter high purpose built indoor climbing wall.

The indoor climbing wall is brilliant for individuals and groups. o even if you fancy tacking a bit of climbing but know no one else how does you can come and enjoy and get to try it while your friends and family and sit and watch as you go.

For groups, such as families or team building it is also a great activity, working together to get to the top.

The great thing with this is that any form the age of 5 can have a go at tackling the wall.

Prices for the Chill FactorE climbing wall start at just £10 for a 20 minute instruction session where you just turn up and want to try.

There are other options for any parties who want to have a go as a group.
An introductory session for a group of 3 that lasts for an hour costs £39.15 per group, a group of 6 for an hours instruction costs just £58.75.

Children aged between 5 - 17 can receive an hours instruction for £10.

Any advanced and experienced climbers can have all day access for just £7.35 per person.

The indoor climbing wall is a great way to spend some time if you go to Chill FactorE with someone who is using the indoor ski slope and want to do some activity yourself.

Strapping some elastic around your ankles and jumping off something may not be everyone’s cup of tea but for any extreme adrenaline junkie a bungee jump is certainly one gift experience you won’t forget!

Bungee jumping isn’t for the faint hearted and certainly isn’t for anyone who is scared of heights. It defies all your human instincts to jump off something very high up and hurtle towards earth in a free fall while you wait for what is in effect an oversized elastic band to bring you to a halt and bounce you back up!

Despite being an extreme sport, Bungee jumping is actually a relatively safe activity to do, although there are certain risks (although not that frequent) of injury such as dislocations, rope burn, back injuries and eye trauma. There has only ever been a handful of people die from bungee jumping since it started back in 1979!

There are Bungee Jumps available throughout the UK at selected locations. Many take place from the top of cranes that have their arms extended to 160ft and beyond, there is even some that can go as high at 300ft if you are feeling really brave!

For those who are after something even more different you can also do indoor bungee jumping at Magma in Sheffield, one of the two indoor bungee jump in the world!

The cost of a bungee jump starts at around £45 and depending on where you jump and if you are going to one that is extra high the price can vary.

Bungee jumping can be done all over the world, there is the option of the world famous bungee jump that James Bond did in Goldeneye at the Verzasca Dam above Lake Vogorno in Switzerland that is 220m up where you fall for 7.5 seconds at 160 km/h.

So, if you think you are brave enough to take the leap then book a bungee jump, it’ll certainly be something you can brag about to friends and family!