White Water Rafting Experience

With thundering noise, churning water and rapids all around you, serious teamwork is required to get you through it. Welcome to white water rafting!

Choose from man-made rapids, which guarantee lots of white water excitement, or try white water rafting in the Scottish Highlands or Welsh mountains where you’ll enjoy all the excitement in beautiful, unspoilt surroundings. With natural rapids, white water rafting is dependent on water levels, so can only run if the water is high enough.

After a thorough safety briefing, you’ll enjoy travelling down river on a beautiful raft whilst being professionally looked after by a qualified instructor. For man made rapids the session begins with a safety talk and tuition to perfect your paddling technique. Then, under the guidance of your qualified instructor you’ll travel in the inflatable raft up to 5 times in the 2 hour session.

When can you go?

Monday - Sunday (selected dates depending on the venue), March to November for manmade, October to March for the natural.

The total experience lasts approximately 2 hours at manmade venues and 2 - 3½ hours at the natural.

Key information

• The minimum age is 16 years at the natural venues and 18 years at the manmade
• Please advise if you have a medical condition that may affect this activity.
• This activity is not always suitable for contact lenses & glasses wearers.
• Participants need to be reasonably fit. 95kg (15 stone) is the maximum weight.
• Not suitable for pregnant women and you need to be able to swim at least 50 metres or be confident of being in the water.

Locations: Kenmore, by Aberfeldy, Perthshire; Nottingham; River Tryweryn, Bala, Gwynedd; Bedford Road, Northampton; Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland.

This activity is dependent on appropriate weather conditions and Spectators are allowed to watch from the side.