York Maze, York > Reviews (3)

York Maze is based just outside York, it is a Maize Maze, it’s not open all year because the maize has to be fully gown to create the maize.

Opening Times

From July until Sept it is open 7 days a week 10am to 6pm

Prices

£7.95 Adults £6.95, Children(Under 16) £7.45, OAP's £28.00, Family (2+2 or 1 adult +3 kids), Disabled go free (carers pay,) Under 3 free

My Thoughts

It was a hot day when we visited the York Maze and it was absolutely stifling inside the maze, outside wasn’t much better because there was no shade anywhere at all. There is a cafe, but it was impossible to keep an eye on the children properly from there.

The main maze is large, but we actually preferred the smaller maze of illusion better, I think after 15 minutes of walking around just seeing maize the children found the bigger maze rather dull. Even though there are statues and talking sculptures in the maze, they were few and far between and not enough to hold my children’s interest.

The maze of illusion though has different pictures or items at the end of each row, the pictures are optical illusions like this one

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of the old hag or beautiful young lady, or ones like this that look like they’re moving when they’re not

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The kids were very impressed by the pictures and spent ages looking at them.

There’s a crazy golf maze as well, but we didn’t try this, as you have to pay extra for it, and I think the entrance fee is high enough.

The play area is excellent and the water bomb fight arena was a great idea for cooling down on a hot day. There’s also a wooden climbing zone, jumping pillows, a huge sand pit that has running water and diggers for the kids to play with (not full sized diggers, just kiddie ones), there’s a quad bike track although this costs extra and there’s an inflatable maze.

I found the play areas were fine, although there were far too many children unsupervised whilst their parents were off elsewhere. This meant on things like the jumping pillows, smaller children were being pushed off by the older ones. Luckily one of the staff members must have noticed this too and sent all the older children off for 15 minutes to all the youngsters to play.

A little way off from everything else is a field with some pigs and cows, they do regular pig races in this field.

The Ivy Store sells a range of souvenirs, including a lot of optical illusion type puzzles, a lot of the souvenirs were very expensive, and my children found there was very little they could afford.

The cafe sells sandwiches, cakes and hot or cold drinks, which are reasonably priced.