Family holidays with children in Georgia - attractions and entertainment

Georgians honor family values ​​and are famous for their good attitude towards children. This is felt immediately upon arrival in the country. Georgia has many interesting places for children’s recreation: mysterious attractions, children’s theaters, water parks, entertainment centers, entertaining museums and puppet theaters. A trip to this amazing country can become an unforgettable adventure for young tourists and their parents. Tbilisi is the center for family holiday. The “Mtatsminda” entertainment park is open in the summer season. Here children can ride a Ferris wheel, trains and an autodrome. They can visit water attractions, play video games, explore the “Jurassic Park” and the “House with ghosts”. In the Mushtaidi Park, you will find a children’s railway.

The Botanical Garden where exotic plants from around the world are collected, offers children a more relaxing holiday. At the Tbilisi Zoo, young visitors can meet about 600 animals including hippos, monkeys, bears, lions and camels. In the contact zoo “Fauna Land” located on the 2nd floor of shopping mall “GTC”, you will have an opportunity to stroke a chameleon or a snake, give treats to ostriches, sheep, rabbits and chickens. In the entertainment center “Astra Park”, older children can take part in the kart racing, air hockey tournaments, play Ping-Pong, billiards, visit the 7D-cinema or shoot at the shooting gallery. In the entertainment center “Tbilikids”, children will enjoy playing with a meccano, jumping on a trampoline or going through a maze with obstacles and a ball pool, while teenagers can take a ride on the auto track.

In order to familiarize children with the culture, it would be worthwhile to go with them to the Marionette Theater R. Gabriadze or the Russian Theater named after Griboyedov where children’s productions often take place. It will also be interesting for them to visit the Museum of Dolls T. Tumanishvili or the Tbilisi Automobile Museum. In the Silk Museum, children can participate in the feeding of silkworms. Young water enthusiasts can be taken to the water park “Gino Paradise Tbilisi”, where outdoor swimming pools with waves operate in summer. There is also an all year-round spa, baths with hydro massage, a pool with fountains and a children’s pool with mini-slides. The pirate schooner “Gino” invites young pirates to wallow in a Jacuzzi or dine on the deck. You can take a walk with children in Kutaisi in the Park of Culture and Rest named after Gabashvili. A cable car straight from the central part of the city will take you right to it. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

In the Kutaisi Botanical Garden, children will be surprised by the oak-chapel which is more than a century old. In the Sataplia reserve, kids will definitely want to look at the impressions of the dinosaur footprints preserved there or visit the viewing platform with a glass floor. The resort village of Abastumani has an observatory where interesting excursions are organized for children both during the day and at night. In the course of the excursions, it is allowed to use a real telescope and look at the stars through it. The most popular ski resort for recreation with children is Bakuriani, where there is a children’s zone “Joy Land” with a route for riding on “cheesecakes” and animators.

In Batumi, children should be invited to go to the dolphinarium, ride the rope course “Argo” to the observation platform on the mountain peak, visit the Wonderland with its fifty-meter Ferris wheel, take a photo of Medea’s sculpture with a golden fleece in Europe Square or watch a laser show of dancing fountains. For a beach holiday with little kids and older children, the village of Maltakva with a sandy beach or the unusual Ureki beach covered with black magnetite crumbs, would be ideal. In the neighboring Poti works the Museum of Colchian culture. Its expositions will expand the historical horizons of school children. After a busy day, you can relax with the whole family in the bosom of nature in the Kolkheti National Park.