🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–12☔ Rainy-day friendly🛝 Soft playBirthday parties🛝 PlaygroundSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Baby changing
- Picnic area
- Birthday parties
- Dogs welcome
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Ark is a soft play venue with three levels to climb, crawl and explore, plus a pottery painting studio where families can decorate their own pieces to take home. There's a café serving food and drinks, with free parking on-site. It sits within Poole Park itself, steps from playgrounds, a miniature railway, and open green space by the lake, so a visit can easily extend to the park's scenic trails, feeding ducks, or a family picnic on the grass.
Christmas opening times vary - check the website.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Grip socksMost parks make you buy theirs at the door.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Socks with grips for soft play
- Car window sunshade
- Ear defendersWorth having for anywhere loud, not only for sensory needs.
- Folding stool
- Pram clip-on fan
- Travel games
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