Galloway Activity Centre Reviews

Very expensive but has a good variety of activities. The cafe is good value with a good choice.

Came here for a half day today. So impressed
The staff so helpful. Came with my own sup board the staff were so helpful couldn't do enough for will be back again. Great for kids.
Next time will come for a full weekend so much to do. Keep up the good work. Many thanks

Amazing selection of activities these days. Still friendly expert staff and the most beautiful setting.

Fantastic place for water sports and some land based activities we like to bring our Youth Club here each year for the day and our 8yr to 16yr old kids love it and can't wait to get back.

The Laser Tag was great fun (apart from the midgies so bring something for that) The Slide was good but can hurt more at the end so probably isn't great for smaller children. The Kayaking was amazing and is definitely something you should do. The staff are very friendly and the dogs are cool too. Great for all ages mainly and the only real problem is the bugs.

A small compact well organised centre. It is not Centre parks but it"s well organised, with a good number of well supervised sessions around land and water sports from kayaking to paddle boarding, to archery and climbing. Reasonable camping facilities with basic showers and changing facilities for sessions. They have reasonable huts and good parking on site. The staff are young and friendly. Prices of activities are not cheap but not expensive either. Situated n an ideal location on the shore line of loch Ken. It's easy to find and well worth a visit or a stay.

Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic place, staff fantastic, helpful and friendly.

Visited during August and hired a canoe for the afternoon, lovely relaxing loch and beautiful scenery.

Great place! Friendly instructors so great for complete begginers and a very clean loch to do all the great water activities!

Fantastic day of fun for all the family. 3, 6 and 36 year old all loved the Slip'n'Slide

Fab place for all ages. Great range of different watersports. Certainly be back again

Love staying here..we've holidayed here for the last 3 years. Great facilities and cafe /diner.. Lovely scenery. Activities and instructors are brilliant too... Loads to do and enjoy from water activities, 3g swing (that was an adrenalin rush!) archery, laser tag etc

Had an amazing time here. Wood fired hot tub. The eco bothy was amazing. Staff were lovely. Facilities were great. Views were amazing. Definitely recommend.

Great place and great staff, the kids and us thoroughly enjoyed it..

Even though I am only 14, I am still writing this review to give you a taster of what you may be expecting if you were to go here, I was also here today, I really enjoyed my time there. It was absolutely amazing! I would 100% recommend for the family! Staff are all very sweet and funny, they make sure you have the best time you possibly can! Although it was a little on the expensive side (in cafe also) it was still worth the time! One of the staff members we had was Callum, he was amazing, made me laugh, get comfortable with him, everyone else and made me feel comfortable to the water. I would like to thank them for this day as it was amazing!

Yours Sincerely
Paige Hutchison

Great place for school-going children, lots of challenging things to do, extensive safety team supervised.

Had a great time today at water park, would highly recommend

Fab centre, lots of sports, cafe on site, friendly enthusiastic staff. Great place for a day out. Taje advantage if their open days.

Had a lovely day here kayaking and archery with Lisa.

Well run. Very friendly and encouraging staff. We did the rock climbing/zip wire, safety was taken seriously and everything explained well.
Staff at reception were helpful and answered numerous varied questions about the centre.

Brilliant as always, got nice weather for a canoe trip and some wild swimming.

Great location with friendly staff and lots to do. Glamping in Dome was just great alternative to full on camping. Our dog was very welcome too and made loads of friends with the site dogs.

Great moment doing windsurfing the 7 of us with Alba, thanks for this day!

A water sports and fun center located on Loch Ken. Climbing wall, canoes, sailboats, slide and many other attractions. Super fun. Camping with good facilities on site. Toilets, washer and showers. Stony lake shore. The area around is varied. You can take a walk.

Super place for some great water based activities and mountain biking across the loch. Excellent staff/instructors too

Had a great night calling dances with Two Left Feet (Wirral) Barn Dance Band on New Years Eve. Fantastic venue and wonderful guests- thank you for inviting us. The Loch is stunning and great accommodation.

The cafe is absolutely terrible!
The worst service I've ever come across and very unreasonably priced!

It's a shame because the activity leaders are very friendly and it's a nice day out.

Just make sure you bring your own food!

Stunning location. Staff need to be more vigilant and trained. My son was bitten by an Adder (venomous snake) whilst at this site. When we told the staff the reply was "this doesn't warrant an ambulance"
My sons hand swell up to the size of a football. So we called ambulance. They came straight on as priority call as if not treated adder bites can lead to anaphylactic shock which can be fatal. He's was rushed to hospital in Dumfries, given anti venom and diamorpine. Then blue lighted to Newcastle RVI hospital. He's spent 2 days so far in hospital. Posters need to be placed at reception explaining what dangerous wildlife are living on their camping grounds. Do not wish for this to happen to anyone else's child.

Amazing activities and amazing staff. Liam looked over us the whole day, very friendly and kind. We got alot of time on the activities aswell!
From Joel, Owen, Emma and Shaun.

A great spot for larger groups. Very friendly and helpful staff. I stayed in the yurt which was quite fun. I would suggest bringing a sharp knife and larger pot if planning on cooking for yourselves in the yurt. The staff were able to help in this situation for us though. All good.

Been coming here for years. Very family friendly. The annual wild swim is a great weekend!

Originally booked for a weekend, absolutely fabulous, location beautiful and 'GAC' fantastic. Staff cannot do enough for you and activities available are great, so great booked up again, would highly recommend.

A great day out. Lovely setting on the loch. Plenty of activities for all ages. Every member of staff that we had contact with were awesome. Thoroughly recommend a visit.

So glad this place has opened up again Once again we had a wonderful weekend which saw our group use the camping pitches for our motor homes and touring caravan - aswell as hiring some of the cabins. On phoning to book - the staff did their utmost to find a suitable solution that would accommodate our group.
Due to the pandemic- showers were closed but the toilet block was open and kept in a good state of hygiene with a one way system in operation.
The water sports was our main point of activity this time and it did not fail to provide a superb experience for us all - the youngest member of our group being 1.5yrs.
Huge thanks to all the staff who are there if and when you need them- but are also keeping a watchful eye in the background to allow for a quality family relaxed time And great adventures This is the best place in the area

Really good fun. Attentive staff. Good range of activities

A lovely inland area for water sports, with great views down the loch. Also a great place to do courses.

Absolutely brilliant place to visit with activities for everyone. Or sit and enjoy a drink on the waters edge.

Wow is one word I can say as soon as you walk in you feel a loving family vibe, I was greeted by a lady called Danielle she was well informing tell us what we need to know about our stay and the activities we were doing, we got taken to the green yurt by a man called Rich, he knew his stuff! he informed us with lots of background and what s around everything we wanted to know he knew , he showed us around and where we were staying and I was amazed how clean it was it looked brand new, so enough of that we started off with Stand up paddle-boarding and then Windsurfing , it was so fun and knackering but both sessions were filled with games and progression to ability ,we had a wee Irish lass called Jordan she was full of energy and confidence and it showed through and made it a great session ,for the afternoon a girl called Tegan she took us up the climb and zip (which was so much fun!!)Then we went out mountain biking which was very informative and we found out about the story about the red kites and the secret cages (a must visit) Tegan was a lovely sweet girl.

So overall brilliant place and will be back again!!

Wonderful three hour boat trip staff very helpful and the scenery fantastic

Great location cafe a bit substandard but this was a while ago. Staff great.

Fantastic place in spite of the terrible weather. The rain didn't dampen our spirits.

Just stopped for a look, cafe dirty and bits of food left on counter, ice cream was worst we've ever had. All place needs a good fettle up outside, old tyres strewn in the loch with other boat debris. Decking was falling to bits with no safety rails, one person actually tripped on a block of wood screwed to the floor in the middle of the decking.
Yet saying all that, the kids seemed to be having the time of their lives on the water features and other activities etc, All wearing safety gear etc. so no compromise on that. So it was just our personal opinion of the appearance of the place.

Loved this place, we stayed over for 2 nights while our boys did lots of activities. Great staff, will definitely be back

Beutifull place. Loved it just the place if you want to forget about city life for a second.

A great place to have safe family fun in the water.

Excellent day out. So much fun recommended this place for any age

Gorgeous, lovely staff, loch is amazing, excelent for kids

Cracking place we will be heading back again next year. Well worth a visit.

I chose this venue for my wedding as I had visited a few times when younger and loved the memories.

The staff were so incredibly helpful to ensure we had the best day. From the boat trip across from the bothies to the bit by the lake we were having the ceremony (I got to drive the boat!) To the highland games...to the overall top notch service...I could not recommend this place enough.

I wanted something that felt personal and real, and they were so supportive of my plastic and limited (not quite zero!) waste requests, it made the day so special.

If we could redo the day again, we 100% would chose to have it here again! Thank you all for such a wonderful day. We loved it!

Visited annually with family and friends on several occasions over the last couple of years . Can not rate it highly enough.kids love it , adults love it and our dog loves it.
Between us we enjoyed sailing , bubble football( hilarious) and the water obstacles ending up staying the night in one of the yurts which were superb. See you next year thanks.

Staff are fantastic the facilities are great and very good with covid restrictions

I lost the kids

Edit: found them

Beautiful area of Dumfries and Galloway, plenty of walks in the area and super activities on site

Had a wonderful time here. Very well organised and helpful instructors. Well worth it if you are in the area.

Enthusiastic staff, fantastic choice of activities, great food

Best trip I've been on in a long time, the area is simply stunning and wild. Firewood is provided since it was December, staff also started the hot tub each day for us to use. Perfect for viewing meteor showers from. Could not recommend enough!

I took my three teenagers here on a rainy day whilst on holiday, they loved it so much they wanted to return every day of our holiday! The instructor was excellent too.

Absolutely great day for a work team building event,dragon boat racing, stand up paddle boarding, slippery slide and inflatable water park. Staff were very friendly and accommodating

Our instructor Ian made the paddle boarding a great experience, we had loads of fun!! :-D

Really great place. Really fun and a lot of activitoes to choose from for both adults and children. Our group did laserquest and archery both of wich were great. The only thing to complain about would be the price, both the entry ticket and in the cafeteria. However the food was great and the staff was really nice. Would strongly recommend.

place is amsing came here not that long ago it was rely good loads of activtys to do staff always keep you safe they help you when your like up high if your scred of hights or the water activite bit with the inflatables was grate fun loved it food was grate to

We stayed here with our motorhome. Weren't fully informed of facilities. No gray water dumping, no electric hook up and a very basic elsan point. Was told that there were no washing up facilities but then found some at the end of stay. Great day sailing despite no wind.

Great day for all the family we all loved it and the times you waiting for next activity you can just take in the views

This place is brilliant, I called in past by pure chance with my mate to go windsurfing. All staff have to be the friendliest I have ever met, they are a credit to a well run great activity centre. What a feel good atmosphere, definitely will go back. Their selection of equipment is good and there was a lot of young groups there when we were there, I have never seen so many youngsters having a great time, a real happy place. Once again, all down to the fantastic enthusiasm if all the staff.

We went to celebrate our son's 11th birthday - thes were kind enough to be available on Dec 27th and despite the dreary weather they were able to help three generations have a go on the climbing wall and zip wire as well as the 3G swing. Great service and lovely supportive instructors too - thanks!

Had a great laugh shooting some arrows. Lovely setting great staff we had a terrific time

Amazing views, really warm cabins, clean bathrooms, really friendly staff