It’s hard to define what makes a good nerdy day trip but you’ll be sure to be spoilt for choice if you live in the UK. Ben Goldacre has asked his blog visitors to crowd source a Google Map of geeky adventures. We’ve pulled all the ones into England onto the table below and linked [...]

Following the same guise as The Idler’s Crap Towns, a new book highlights some of Britain’s most eccentric tourist attractions. The Sun featured nine in an article today – we’ve included these along with the samples on the book’s website and links to their profiles on DayTripFinder. One of our aims for the site is to [...]

Yesterday we published the top 20 free attractions in England – today it’s the top paid ones. Perhaps mirroring the uncertain economic situation paid attractions reported a -1% drop in visitors comparing 2009 and 2010.

Each year Visit England publish their annual attractions report recording visitor numbers and the top attractions. We’ve taken their list of the top 20 free attractions and put them in the table below with links to their DayTripFinder listings. Free attractions experienced a 6% visitor increase in 2010 from 2009. Just click the table headings to [...]

We’ve pulled together all the county visitor organisations that are on Twitter in the table below. We’ll do our best to keep it up-to-date and accurate. Please drop us a comment if we’ve missed any! There are a lot of blanks, just click the column headers to sort or use the search box.

Welcome to the DayTripFinder blog! DayTripFinder is the UK’s visitor attractions website and we thought it’s about time we started a blog. Why? Well, we’re passionate about great days out and a blog is going to be an excellent way to share this passion. It’s early days but we’ve already got some great content lined [...]