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Santa’s Grotto Opening Times

Friday 1st, 8th, 17th Dec

4:30pm – 7:00 pm 

Saturday 2nd, 9th, 16th Dec

10:30 am – 5:00pm

Sunday 3rd, 10th, 17th Dec  

10:30 pm – 5:00pm

Your booking to visit Santa’s Grotto is now confirmed  

To make your visit enjoyable, please ensure you read the information below carefully.

The cost of the Santa Visit only covers the gift from Santa. It does not include admission to the Museum . 

You must also purchase Museum tickets with your Santa tickets or present a valid re-entry ticket. Santa’s Grotto is part of the Victorian Christmas experience, which includes other festive activities.

All tickets to the museum are re-entry tickets and are valid for 1 year. 

Please arrive at the Grotto (in the Field Study Centre) no more than 5 mins before your slot.

Please allow enough time to go around the Museum before or after your visit to the Grotto. The Museum may close before the Grotto.

Entry will be through the main Museum entrance. Please use the car park on McConnell Drive.

For any cancellations , please contact the Museum. 

The Museum will charge a 10% administrative charge on each Santa Booking that is cancelled. The cancellation will have to be processed in person at the Museum. The Museum is unable to refund any  Museum entrances purchased and paid for annual tickets can be collected at anytime when the Museum is open from reception. Please call 01908316222 for any further questions.

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Laura is a creative who has previously worked in the Charity, Education & Local Government sectors, with three years of experience in community roles and is the Visual Arts Director of a Community-Based organisation in Uganda called Tambularts.

She’s based in Bedford but has had links to Milton Keynes throughout her life. She believes in bringing people together for the sake of the arts and aims to achieve this through the ‘Museum for a New City’ project by including a diverse range of the Milton Keynes community.

Laura loves the interactive nature of the Museum and as the Community Outreach Officer at Milton Keynes Museum, she wants to make sure people are involved in telling their stories and building heritage to contribute towards the permanent exhibitions in the new gallery.

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All Christmas theme park packages at Gulliver's Land Milton Keynes include a visit to Santa's Grotto with the opportunity for children to choose their own gift. If you want to extend the fun, then book a fantastic festive short break.

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Friday, 8th to sunday, 10th december 2023 mcconnell drive, wolverton, milton keynes mk12 5el.

Step inside the decorated Victorian farmhouse for family fun, a country market, A Christmas Carol  performances and a visit by Queen Victoria. Father Christmas will be setting up his grotto.

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Christmas: Where to meet Santa in and around Milton Keynes

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• 05:00, 4 OCT 2021

Christmas may seem a long time away since it's not even been Halloween yet.

However tickets are selling fast and events are being completely booked up.

Last year with lockdowns and coronavirus restrictions, it is the perfect year to make the most of Christmas.

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Whether you're going to see family and friends, or just have a quiet Christmas in, there are so many ways to celebrate arguably the best time of the year.

It is most little one's dreams to see the man dressed in red.

We have compiled a list together for all the places you can meet Santa in and around Milton Keynes .

Santa's Grotto with Peter Rabbit and Friends

Where: Middleton Hall, Centre:mk, 33a Silbury Blvd, Milton Keynes MK9 3ES

When: November 12 to December 24

Price: From £12.50 for children and Adults and under 1's are £4.99

You will meet all of Peter Rabbit's woodland friends along the way in Santa's grotto.

Squirrel Nutkin is up to some mischief while you decorate your elf biscuits with Mrs Tiggy Winkle.

Enjoy between 25 and 30 minutes of fun and meet Santa who will give you a gift. For an additional charge you can have a family photograph with Santa.

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Woburn Sands Emporium

Where: Newport Rd, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes MK17 8UF

When: Every weekend in December and December 20 to 24

Price: From £2.50

You can have tea with Santa which includes a hot meal, a gift from Santa himself and do fun activities.

An elf from Santa's workshop has also come along to help with the festivities to make sure everyone is being good.

Instead you can join Santa for a story time session which lasts around 30 minutes, receiving a gift from him too.

Dobbies Garden Centre

Where: Belvedere Ln, Watling St, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK17 9JH

Price: From £6.99

Have breakfast with Santa followed by some games and a visit from him where he will give you a gift.

If not you can visit Santa's Grotto where you can explore the magical woodland with hidden Christmas characters along the way.

Gifts are suitable for different age ranges but may vary on the day. You can also get a special photo with him to remember the special day.

Thrift Farm

Where: Thrift Farm, Buckingham Road, Whaddon, Milton Keynes, MK17 0EQ

When: Every weekend in December, including December 20, 22, 23 and 24

Price: From £12.50

First meet Father Christmas and his elves from the North Pole in a magical grotto, then choose a special gift from his enchanted toy shop (price included).

Then you can get creative and decorate some gingerbread, bringing them to life using icing and sweets. You can also make some magical reindeer food to sprinkle outside on Christmas Eve.

Not to mention the Cafe which is open daily where you can enjoy a hot chocolate and other warm treats.

Bletchley Park

Where: The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood Drive, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB

When: November 27 to December 23

Price: Entry into the Park and £9.50 for the Christmas Grotto

Visit the Vintage Christmas Grotto at Bletchley Park and help Santa find all his missing toys around the Park to break a secret code.

Then have a magical meeting with Father Christmas yourself in the mansion where he will give you a special gift.

Festive treats and hot drinks will be available from the coffee shop and hut cafe.

Mini Monsters Softplay Cafe

Where: 12 N Twelfth St, Milton Keynes MK9 3PT

When: Selected days from November 14 to December 21

Price: £2.50 for adults and £12.50 for children

An amazing festive Grotto has been created by Mini Monsters to offer unique personalised Santa experience.

Your little one will receive a gift from Santa and his helpers as well as two hours of soft play.

Don't forget to bring a camera to remember the special moment - spaces are limited so book now.

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Santa’s Grotto at Centre MK

17 november, 2023 - 24 december, 2023.

The Santa’s Grotto experience returns to the Centre MK in Milton Keynes for 2023.

This nostalgic adventure begins with an exciting and heart-warming, live interpretation of ‘The Snowman TM’ , brought to life by actors portraying the well-loved characters from the original story! A snowy landscape provides the perfect backdrop to view some of the most memorable and magical moments from the original animated film and all children will be given the opportunity to decorate a Christmas biscuit treat before meeting with Santa in his woodland cabin!

Many wonderful surprises await you and your family as you embark upon an enchanting journey to meet Santa.  There is of course the opportunity to take home a family photograph with Santa as a memento of your special visit to The Snowman TM  Christmas Grotto at centre:mk

• Child : £16.50
• Adult & Babies: £5.50

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Get into the holiday spirit with a visit to Dobbies Garden Centre Santa’s Grotto this Christmas. It’s a cherished tradition that brings joy to children and families alike. Your adventure begins with a stroll through an enchanting forest, guided by friendly elves. Along the way, little ones will create a special keepsake to take home.

The highlight of the experience is meeting Santa Claus himself, where children can share their excitement and wishes before receiving a carefully selected gift. To capture this magical moment, choose from our special photo options, saving up to 15% when you pre-book.

Please remember to dress warmly as Santa’s grotto may be outside. Book your preferred time and date and make this holiday season truly memorable at Dobbies.

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Santa’s grottos in and around Milton Keynes 2020

by Laura | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog

Frosts Garden Centre, Woburn Sands 

Frosts Garden Centres – Woburn Sands, MK17 8UE – SOLD OUT. Generally this is the first one in Milton Keynes to sell out as many people make it a tradition to go every year and like the Santa. This year was no different. Like anywhere though it may be worth contacting them to see if they what they do if they have cancellations. In previous years they did do a free event for Santa’s arrival, but this stopped in 2019 due to the volume of people that went and problems with parking on surrounding roads. As of 1st October they do have their Christmas decorations up which are very pretty – see pictures below.

Can you Cracker the Code?  - New ‘Mission: Meet Santa’ experience to launch at John Lewis

• 35 John Lewis stores to offer magical Santa experiences for the whole family
• For the first time, children are invited to become 'secret santa agents' in new Mission: Meet Santa experience
• Santa’s Tea Parties are back by popular demand and relaxed grotto sessions available to book online this week

From November 22nd, John Lewis will be offering customers the chance to meet Santa and create a cherishable Christmas moment for the whole family, even your four legged friends. Early tickets have already been released to My John Lewis members and Santa visits are proving to be as popular a tradition as ever, with sales up +37% compared to last year.

Customers can choose from three unique experiences:

Brand new for 2023: Santa's Grotto - Mission: Meet Santa (£20) For the first time, families can book in for a special ‘Mission: Meet Santa’ experience, children are invited to become 'Secret Santa agents’ and with the help of Santa’s elves are tasked with cracking the code needed to unlock the door and meet the man himself.  Once their mission is completed they'll meet Santa and leave with a grotto exclusive plush elf toy . 

Santa’s Tea Party (£15) Back by popular demand! Kids can join Santa for a special Christmas storytime session, complete with a gingerbread snack, choice of drinks and a grotto exclusive plush toy Elf for each child. 

Santa Paws Experience (£20) Following a hurry of hounds last year, we are excited to launch pre-booked tickets to Santa Paws for the first time. Four legged friends can meet Santa and enjoy a special gift from pet brand Rosewood.  In 2022, customers were able to bring their cute companions to the Grotto, with Santa even having a visit from a pet budgie.  Relaxed Grotto Experiences available too. We are also committed to making our experiences accessible to as many customers as possible and for the first time will be offering relaxed sessions for those who need or prefer a calmer experience, with reduced noise and lighting. They will be running in nine stores and can be selected when booking grotto tickets online now.

Visit here to find out more about each of the Santa experiences and book tickets. Further images can be downloaded here .

ENDS Notes to Editors For further information, please contact: Florence Bretherton - [email protected]

Santa's Grotto - Mission: Meet Santa 

• On arrival at the grotto kids will be welcomed by one of Santa's mischievous little helpers. They'll explain the mission, which involves working their way through interactive stations to find three hidden letters, spelling out an important code word. This code is then transmitted to the North Pole through our ‘Christmas is Calling’ telephone box. Once they have cracked the code they will unlock the door to meet Santa, before having their photo taken and receiving a grotto-exclusive plush toy Elf.
• Price: £20 per child (includes a plush toy worth £10) plus a £2 booking fee. £2 per adult plus a 20p booking fee. Professional photos available to purchase separately.
• Available at;  John Lewis Cambridge, Cheadle, Cribbs Causeway, High Wycombe, Liverpool, Oxford Street, Peter Jones, Southampton and Welwyn. Plus, Meet Santa in our Milton Keynes Grotto.

Santa’s Tea Party

• Group sessions of up to 20 kids: Customers will join Santa for a special Christmas storytime and each child will receive a grotto exclusive plush toy Elf. Children will be offered a festive gingerbread snack and can also choose from hot chocolate or a juice carton. Adults will have a choice of tea or coffee, with a slice of festive cake (to be selected on the day). All drinks and snacks are included in the ticket price.
• Price: £15 per child (includes a plush toy worth £10) plus a £1.50 booking fee. £5 per adult (includes a hot drink and slice of cake) plus a 50p booking fee. 
• Available at John Lewis Bluewater, Brent Cross, Canary Wharf, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Chichester, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Horsham, Ipswich, Kingston, Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Poole, Reading, Solihull, Stratford, Trafford and White City.

Santa Paws Experience

• Customers can come and explore our grotto with their four-legged friend. They can get a professional photo taken with Santa before receiving a dog-friendly gift worth the price of the ticket. 
• Price: £20 per dog (includes a Rosewood gift worth £20) plus a £2 booking fee. Professional photos available to purchase separately.
• Available at John Lewis Cambridge, Cheadle, Cribbs Causeway, High Wycombe, Liverpool, Oxford Street, Peter Jones, Southampton and Welwyn.

Relaxed Grotto Experiences can be booked at the shops with Grottos: Oxford Street* Peter Jones, Liverpool, Welwyn, Cheadle, High Wycombe, Cambridge, Southampton*, Cribbs

Florence Bretherton- [email protected]

About the John Lewis Partnership The John Lewis Partnership owns and operates two of Britain's best-loved retail brands - John Lewis and Waitrose. Started as a radical experiment over a century ago, the Partnership is now the largest employee-owned business in the UK, with over 74,000 employees who are all Partners in the business. The Partnership is purpose-driven, existing to create a fairer and more sustainable future for our Partners, customers, suppliers and communities. Our Purpose not only inspires our principles, drives our decisions and acts as our guide to be a force for good, it steers us to do things differently and better - all in service of creating a happier world for everyone and everything we touch.

John Lewis operates 34 shops plus one outlet across the UK as well as johnlewis.com . Waitrose has 331 shops in England, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands, including 59 convenience branches, and another 27 shops at Welcome Break locations. The retailer's omnichannel business includes the online grocery service, Waitrose.com , as well as specialist online shops, including waitrosecellar.com for wine and waitroseflorist.com for plants and flowers. 

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PM defends government's NHS record on visit to Milton Keynes despite crumbling hospitals

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• Thursday 30 May 2024 at 6:29pm

Matthew Hudson spoke to Rishi Sunak for ITV News Anglia in Milton Keynes.

Rishi Sunak has defended his government's record on the NHS, insisting that the Tories had a plan to deliver new hospitals to replace crumbling buildings - including some held up by props.

The prime minister was speaking to ITV News Anglia as he made his first visit to the East of England since the start of the General Election campaign.

He was quizzed about the Tories' credentials in ensuring the NHS was fit for the 21st century, given high-profile examples such as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, where more than 3,000 props stop the roof from collapsing .

Elsewhere in the region, the Princess Alexandra in Harlow has seen parts of its ceiling collapse, while others such as the West Suffolk in Bury St Edmunds and Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon have found collapse-prone aerated concrete.

But Mr Sunak insisted he was committed to health service funding, pointing to his NHS family background, with his father a GP and his mother a pharmacist.

"I saw first-hand, on the front line, the importance of good healthcare for everyone's peace of mind and their security," he told ITV News Anglia.

"And that's why I will always be committed to making sure the NHS is well funded, which it is, with record funding today, and we are in the process of upgrading and rebuilding hospitals including in Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the East."

Earlier this month, NHS hospitals promised new buildings told ITV News they were spending tens of millions of pounds every year on maintenance and repair, amid fears that the government would not meet its target of replacing them by 2030.

Mr Sunak also highlighted the roll-out of community diagnostic centres, "so people can get the checks and tests and scans that they need closer to home, much faster".

The prime minister was visiting Niftylift in Milton Keynes, a supplier of cherry pickers, boom lifts and lift platforms.

He also paid tribute to former Conservative MPs Robert Halfon and Chris Heaton Harris who, with the dissolution of Parliament, have now stood down ahead of the General Election in July.

Throughout the rest of the interview, Mr Sunak returned repeatedly to the theme of taking "bold decisions" if his party won the election, by clamping down on "rip-off degrees", introducing modern national service and committing to the so-called "triple lock plus".

Milton Keynes and surrounding seats are seen as key battlegrounds, and both main parties are expected to target them intensely on their road to Number 10.

Both Milton Keynes North and Milton Keynes Central are currently Conservative held seats but Labour would be looking to win them on 4 July.

The notional majority of Tory-held Milton Keynes North was slightly increased by constituency boundary changes following the 2019 general election.

The seat is Labour's sixth most winnable in the Anglia region with Sir Keir Starmer's party needing a 6.6% swing on 4 July.

Labour would need a 4.7% swing to win Milton Keynes Central. It is their third most winnable seat in the region, after Peterborough and Northampton North.

The pivotal seat for Labour is Buckingham and Bletchley where a 12.7% swing is needed - the same required for a Labour majority in parliament.

Milton Keynes Council has been hung since 2014. At the 2023 local elections, Labour took the biggest share of the votes at 38% with a swing of 5%.

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