The Jet Centre alone covers bowling, soft play and mini golf, and Bounce Coleraine is the area's big trampoline park. On rainy days, four soft play venues means younger children are well catered for.
Get outdoors and you have two free cycling routes — the Lower Bann Cycleway and the Causeway Gateway. North Coast Alpacas is a real change of pace, and Coleraine Museum and Flowerfield Arts Centre are both free if you want to slow it down.
The best days out near Coleraine
Movanagher Fishery (Lower Bann)
Itsy Bitsy Wonderland
Coleraine Sub-Aqua Club
Coleraine Leisure Centre
Coleraine Museum
Streamline Garden Centre
Diamond Shopping Centre
Bounce Coleraine
Score Football Centres
NCIC Climbing Wall
Alley Cats Soft Play (Jet Centre, Coleraine)
Movie House Coleraine
Jet Centre Mini Golf (Coleraine)
Super Strikes Bowling (Jet Centre, Coleraine)
Riverside Retail Park
Best of the Bann River Cruise (White River Charters)
Cheeky Chimps
Mount Sandel Fort
Island Farm Equestrian Centre
Xplore Outdoors
Lower Bann Cycleway
Causeway Gateway Cycle Route (NCN 96)
Flowerfield Park
Damhead Miniature Railway
Cromore Estate
Flowerfield Arts Centre
North Coast Alpacas
Crescent Play Park
Portstewart Golf Club
Portstewart Strand
SUB6 Surf & SUP School
Sauna and Sea
Hilltop Holiday Park
Portnahapple wild swim
The ruins of the original Agherton Church Of Ireland Church
Freedive Northern Ireland
Portstewart Cliff Path & Strand
Boy Matthew Sea Angling Charter
Aquaholics Sea Safari
Aquaholics Dive Centre & Sea Safari
West Strand, Portrush
Ballyreagh Golf Club
Alive Adventures Portrush
Royal Portrush Golf Club
Rathmore Golf Club
Goldrush Entertainment Centre
East Strand, Portrush
Wacky Workshop Indoor Adventure Playground
What's on near Coleraine
- 4JulThe Sea we Share | Czacarri MuliFlowerfield Arts Centre
- 10JulSummer Open Studio WeekendsMargey & Bjourson Art Studio & Gallery
- 1AugNew HorizonUlster University Coleraine campus
- 1AugFrancis Joseph Bigger Collection Exhibition — Portrush LibraryPortrush Library
- 1AugSanderlings - a journey of creativity — Portstewart LibraryPortstewart Library
- 2AugMussenden Temple and Downhill Demesne guided tourMussenden Temple & Downhill Demesne
Days out in Coleraine — your questions
What are the best days out in Coleraine?
The Jet Centre is a great starting point — it has Alley Cats Soft Play, Super Strikes Bowling and Jet Centre Mini Golf all under one roof. Bounce Coleraine is brilliant for active families. For something different, North Coast Alpacas and the Lower Bann Cycleway are well worth a visit.
What free things are there to do in Coleraine?
Quite a lot. Coleraine Museum, Flowerfield Arts Centre and Cromore Estate are all free to visit. For outdoor fun, the Lower Bann Cycleway and Causeway Gateway Cycle Route offer traffic-free rides. Flowerfield Park and Crescent Play Park are great for letting younger kids burn off some energy.
Where can you go on a rainy day near Coleraine?
The Jet Centre has three indoor options in one place — Alley Cats Soft Play, Super Strikes Bowling and Jet Centre Mini Golf. Itsy Bitsy Wonderland and Cheeky Chimps are solid soft play choices for younger children. Coleraine Museum is free and a good option for an hour indoors.
What's good for young children near Coleraine?
There's plenty to keep little ones busy. Alley Cats Soft Play, Itsy Bitsy Wonderland and Cheeky Chimps are all popular soft play venues. For outdoor time, Flowerfield Park and Crescent Play Park have good play areas. North Coast Alpacas is a real hit with animal-loving kids.
More about Coleraine
Just south of Coleraine, at Mountsandel, archaeologists uncovered wooden houses dating from around 7000 BC, making it one of the oldest known human settlements anywhere in Ireland. People have been living beside the River Bann here for the best part of nine thousand years.
The town you see today was laid out in the early 1600s by the Honourable The Irish Society, and its old street pattern and ramparts can still be traced. Coleraine sits at the lowest bridging point of the Bann, where the river is about 90 metres wide, and the salmon of the Bann have been famous for centuries.