Kids love hanging out here

Kids love hanging out here
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Kids Love Hanging Out Here. NTR Gardens has a choo-choo train, video games, rides, food, nature beauty, mist fountain, gardens, a water slide spread across 36 acres of landscape.

The city of Nawabs, the Pearl City, stands by its status of lighting up a thousand faces. Hyderabad offers a variety of tourist attractions ranging from heritage monuments, lakes and parks, gardens and resorts, museums to delectable cuisine and a delightful shopping experience. To the traveller, Hyderabad offers a fascinating panorama of the past, with a richly mixed cultural and historical tradition spanning 400 colourful years. The city also has hangouts which cater especially to the kids. Here are some of the tourist attractions, which sure is going to leave kids grinning from ear to ear.

Eat Street

This is a simple place for food and hangout with family and friends. The food menu is vast. For recreation, there are rides for kids and elders. Also there is a boat ride in Tank Bund. A visit to the Buddha Statue is a must.

Location: Necklace Road

Timing: 10 am – 10 pm

Boating Fee: Rs. 30 for Adults, Rs 20 for Children

Speed Boat Fee: 4 persons, Rs 160

Water Scooter Fee: Rs 60 Per trip

Snow World

As the name goes, it’s a snow theme park. For people who want to experience snow and want to engage in a friendly snow fight, this is the place to be. Some of the other rides includes merry-go-round for kids. The creative can carve out snow sculptures and for someone who wants to shake a leg, they can go for snow disco. You can carry a camera for wonderful snow shots but at little permit charge. The management provides warm jackets, gloves, socks and waterproof shoes. Children below two feet height are not allowed inside.

Location: Snow World, Lower Tank Bund Road

Timings: 11 am–10.30 pm

Entry Fee: For Adults- Rs 360/-, For Children - Rs 240/-

Open: Everyday

NTR Gardens

NTR Gardens has a choo-choo train, video games, rides, food, nature beauty, mist fountain, gardens, a water slide spread across 36 acres of landscape

Location: Tank Bund

Timings: 2.30 pm - 9 pm

Entry Fee: Adults-Rs 15 , Children- Rs 10, Camera-Rs 30, Video Camera- Rs 65

Dhola-Ri-Dhani (Kompally)

For those who like the desert experience, Dhola-Ri-Dhani is the right place that offers a rustic and ethnic charm of a typical Rajasthani Village.

The thrills of the desert include sumptuous dining, camel rides, puppet shows, folk dances etc. Entertainment programmes in an amphitheatre, conferencing facilities, a lake for boating, a swimming pool and overnight staying facilities are available here. This theme resort is located at Kompally on the Medchal Road just outside Secunderabad.

Lumbini Park
A place for entertainment, the Lumbini Park is a kid's haven and is located on the bank of the Hussainsagar Lake. Musically synchronised water fountain are spell-binding. The jetty here provides various types of pleasure-boat riding.
Location: Tank Bund
Laser Show Timings: Daily one show at 7.15 pm, Sat & Sun at 7.15 pm and 8.30 pm
Mount Opera (Vanasthalipuram )
This is another multi-theme park which offers special customised packages for corporates and NRIs. Spread over 50 acres, Mount Opera offers a variety of entertainment and leisure activities at a serene location outside the city.
Ramoji Film City
Action, sets, buildings, gardens, landscapes, stunts, movie making: It’s all here. Spread over 1666 acres, Asia’s largest film studio. It also has hotels, restaurants, boarding and lodging.
There are shows for the whole day to keep you entertained. For kids, there are lot of dry rides. Shows, cricket nets and a lot of games. There are connecting buses from all over the city to this place. Tickets can be reserved online at www.ramojifilmcity.com
Timing: 10am- 4:30 pm
Entry: Adult 600/-, Child 500/-
B M Birla Planetarium and Museum
Planetarium is a favourite amongst lovers of astronomy. Equipped with advanced Japanese technology, the planetarium is the most modern and first of its kind in India.
Adjoining the planetarium is the science museum, which showcases India's growing science and technological advancements. The place also houses a ‘Dinosaurium’, which has a rare and magnificent fossil of the dinosaur Kotasaurus, which is about 160 million years old. It has been put up in a natural and dynamic posture.
Location: Adarsh Nagar
Timings: 11.30 am - 8 pm
Entry Fee: Rs. 18
Shows: English - 11.30 am - 4 pm, 6 pm,
Telugu - 12.15 pm, 3 pm, 5 pm, 6.45 pm, 8.15 pm,
Hindi - 7.30 pm
Birla Science Museum
Timings: 10.30 am - 8 pm
Entry Fee: Rs. 15
Contact: +91 40 23235081
Jalavihar
This is the only themed water park situated in the centre of the city. You can just go unprepared for this place, There are everything including lockers, dresses on rent, eatables, shops etc. It is a little crowded as its in heart of the city. But a complete family entertainment is guaranteed.
Location: Necklace Road
Timings: 2pm- 8pm, Weekends: 11am -8 pm
Entry: Rs 50 per head, entry: Water rides Rs 100 per head, extra.
Camera Rs 50, video Rs 100.
Nehru Zoological Park
Home for around 3000 animals, birds and reptiles, the Nehru Zoological Park is spread across 300 acres of verdant greenery, with 250 species living in conditions resembling their natural habitat.
The biggest zoo in India, also the first to create moats around enclosures, the park has a lion safari, natural history museum, a children's train, and APTDC maintained Haritha Restaurant.
Timings: 8.30 am - 5.30 pm (Closed on Monday)
Entry Fee: Adults 25/-, Child-15/-

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