Highlights
This is a Self guided audio tour of Treak Cliff Cavern using your own Smartphone, with a Christmas seasonal twist. The cavern is decorated with fairy lights, Christmas trees, and candles, with a little history of Christmas Customs and origins. Rocks and minerals from around the world are incorporated into the decorations to create even more Festive Feel, including a giant fossil and sparkly minerals, with Fairy lights shining through them.
The Christmas Rocks Trail, focuses on the decorations and the minerals, as you take your journey through the Cavern. For this you receive your own Quiz Sheet and pencil, and the correct answers can be discovered from our friendly staff in the entrance area after your tour!
The Christmas Rocks Trail is suitable for all 'Rock hounds' and 'Christmas-aholics' ' although younger children may need help with some of the answers!
The self-guided Audio on your own smartphone takes you on the Tour of the Cavern, and you can stop and start as you go along to answer the Rocks Trail quiz. You will see the Underground Wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites, rocks, minerals and fossils, and our beautiful unique Blue John Stone!
With an App previously downloaded onto your Smart phone, you follow a marked route through the cavern, with the information delivered to your phone via Blue tooth beacons as you move along.
Our tours are designed to meet the new Good To Go standard introduced by Visit Britain after the Corona-virus lock-down. Entry times and online booking limit slots to your group of 6 people (not counting those who are exempt or in your Support bubble), so you effectively have a socially distanced private tour. enabling you to focus on the stunning cave and the audio tour, and the Christmas lights and themes. The walking tour lasts around 1 hour and you can stop, take photographs and gaze at the rocks around you !!.
The ' Polish your own Blue John Stone Activity' (suitable for all ages) is an optional extra, where you work with our craftsmen to create your own polished slice of Blue John in our workshop areas at the cavern entrance.
Children under 5 are FREE and do not need to have tickets. Please let us know if you intend to bring more than 4 children under 5 for any given slot so we can manage capacity. Be aware we are on a steep hillside so there is no wheelchair access to or inside the Cavern, and some areas underground are low and narrow. At least one adult (18+) MUST be present for insurance policies, so please only book if there is an adult in your party. We look forward to welcoming you!