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Underwater Easter Egg Hunt
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
The Easter Scuba Bunny has been busy hiding eggs under the water at the National Diving & Activity Centre.
If you’re diving with us over the Easter weekend and lucky enough to hunt down one of the Easter Eggs, bring it to the gas room and one of the NDAC team will exchange it for a chocolate Easter Egg.
6 Month Post-Lockdown reopening plan for NDAC
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Update June 2021
The Atlantis Aqua Park is now open for bookings on selected dates.
We’re not currently selling Gift Vouchers for the Atlantis Aqua Park.
Following a review of the government guidance and consideration of how we can implement it throughout the National Diving & Activity Centre, we are excited to release our 6-month plan for reopening.
Easter Weekend Scuba Diving
We’re pleased to announce that we will now be able to open for limited Scuba Diving over the Easter holiday weekends (3rd & 4th, 10th & 11th April 2021).
We’ve established that providing we work to our Covid procedures, keep the Wigwams and changing rooms closed, and only provide takeaway food/drink, we will be able to open as originally planned.
We apologise for the changing dates and appreciate the frustration some have experienced as we react to the developing government advice. With the easing of lockdown restrictions and the release of our 6-month dates, we hope divers will be able to make firmer plans to visit.
Anyone who has booked scuba diving on Friday the 2nd or Monday 5th April is welcome to contact us to change their booking dates to the 3rd/4th or 10th/11th April. Alternatively, we can provide a 6-month voucher or a full refund.
Scuba diving bookings previously made for the 3rd & 4th April are still valid.
We have also released the dates we plan to open for Scuba Diving over the next six months. Anyone who had a previous Scuba Diving booking cancelled due to Covid will be offered a 6-month voucher to rebook.
We will be responding to customer emails in the next coming weeks to put all arrangements in place.
Activities
We are pleased to confirm that the Wire Zip Slide will be reopening in July and August. Our other activities (Giant 3G Swing, Atlantis Aqua Park and Cinema) will not be reopening for the remainder of 2021.
Anyone who has a Wire Zip Slide booking/voucher from November 2019 that has expired due to Covid19 will have their voucher automatically extended to use in July/August this year. Please use your existing voucher to make the booking.
For those with Giant 3G Swing, Atlantis Aqua Park and Cinema vouchers, you will be contacted in the next few weeks to offer a full refund or a Wire Zip Slide voucher as an alternative replacement.
Wigwam Accommodation
We are pleased to confirm that we are providing Wigwam accommodation on selected dates between 24th April and the end of August 2021.
Anyone who has a Wigwam booking/voucher that has expired due to Covid19 will have their voucher automatically extended to redeem and use by the end of August. Please use your existing voucher to make the booking.
All extended activity and accommodation vouchers must be redeemed and used by 31st August 2021. After this date the voucher will expire and will be invalid. No alternatives, further renewals, refunds or other form of compensation will be made.
Opening Dates
For our opening plan for the next 6 months and beyond, please visit our Opening Times Page. All dates are dependent on government/Covid restrictions allowing us to open.
Scuba Winter Opening Times & Changes to Opening Times During Winter Season
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019The NDAC will remain closed on Thursdays throughout February & March 2020.
This is so we can complete ongoing infrastructure works at the centre.
We will reopen on Thursdays with our change to Summer opening times at the start of April.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
From 1st October we are operating our Winter Opening Times for Scuba Diving.
From the 1st November 2019 we will be making some changes to the opening times for Scuba Diving and the View Cafe Bar to reflect the quieter season.
Between November and the February Half-Term, we will close on Thursdays. During this time we will open Friday-Sunday.
Following the February half-term From April 1st we will return to Thursday-Sunday opening until the end of October.
We will also continue to open on Bank Holiday Mondays.
Christmas dates are assessed each year depending on how the holidays fall. We expect to release the 2020 Christmas dates in November.
NDAC Scuba Winter Opening Times 2019/2020
01 October – 31 March inclusive
Monday: CLOSED (open Bank Holidays)
Tuesday: CLOSED
Wednesday: CLOSED
Thursday*: 0930 -1700 (*Closed 1st Nov until
week after Feb Half-TermApril)Friday: 0930 -1700
Saturday: 0800 – 1700
Sunday & Bank Holidays: 0800 – 1700
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