Dinton Activity Centre

Thanks for a great Summer! Pay & Play Boat Hire is now ONLY open at WEEKENDS throughout September (11am-5pm). Don’t forget we also have Twilight Hire on Wednesdays 6-8pm too.

Open Water Swimming update: The quality of the lake is improving, however open water swimming has been cancelled this evening, Wednesday 29 August. We are waiting for the latest water quality results to come back, in the hope we will be able to re-open Open Water Swimming next week.

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Some pictures form a few weeks ago when a Red Kite was fishing in the lake, dodging around our sailors.

Another busy day out on the lake with all the sailors, Wild and Welly Days kids.

Spinnaker Sailing Juniors learning about true, boat and apparent wind vectors.

Open water swimming update: due to the latest water quality results remaining unchanged, open water swimming is cancelled this evening.

Adult Sailing Evening Classes

Spinnaker Sailing 💕⛵️

Welly Days - activities for 6-9 year olds.

Welly Days took to the water this morning with their instructor onboard an Argo.

Stage 1’s preparing for their first morning afloat on our Topper Sailboats.

It’s a busy morning here at DAC

If you’re in the park today, head to the Riverside Kiosk and buy your ticket to the Circus Skills for families workshops happening today at 11am and 2pm. Available to all from age 4+.

Looking for something for you and the kids to do this weekend? Look no further - join our Circus Skills for families workshop! Tomorrow at 11am and 2pm in the Riverside Retreat Arena, next to the Riverside Kiosk! Book now!!

One of our Egyptian Geese rescued today after some of our sailing team found him with fishing line well and truly tangled around his legs. After we removed the line he's now having a stay at The Swan Sanctuary Shepperton to recuperate

We really enjoyed your open day and only found out about it on Facebook as a friend of mine liked your page. So pleased we did and that we arrived early. Will certainly be revisiting again soon for kayaking and sailing.

We had a great afternoon at the Dinton Activity Centre, only £2 per activity for 15mins for each water activity, myself & my girls had a go at Sailing with our Instructor Maisie who was really lovely then we took a Pedalo out, fun had by all, please can you let me know when the next one of these events will be, thankyou!

There is a huge range of facilities here, all fun packed and those that need to be paid for are really reasonably priced. The staff are all lovely and always happy to help. This is a great place for happy family fun time or a calm peaceful time. Thank you

Thank you to all the staff and instructors for organising the try sailing days. We absolutely loved it, and the instructors were very good.

Such a lovely place to be, by the sea, or in this case, lake. Lots to do and very friendly staff. �

Really disappointed after checking your fb page this morning for opening times, that after arriving and paying to park, we find that boat hire is only available at weekends and on wokingham school holidays. This was not clear from your page (although I now see a post from an hour ago!! May be prompted by my grumble this morning??) So a very disappointed 6 year old � I've given you a 5 star review as usually when we come we have a great time. Thank goodness for the mini golf today.

I took my two daughters on a canoe for 30 mins and they loved it! The park itself was well maintained as well.

Highly recommend visiting this park , it’s a lovely place for families . One down side was limited availability for all attractions they were sold out by 12 pm therefore kids were a bit disappointed .

Great staff, good equipment and plenty of variety with the activities.

The conservation efforts with the lake and parks definitely show this year too.

Great facilities and fun for the family!

Great facilities - changing rooms, hot showers - good selection of boats available for hire (if qualified) including wetsuits, buoyancy aids and helmets.

Great centre for Watersports, very reasonably priced and good levels of equipment...🛶🚣🏼‍♂️⛵️

Brilliant day out with the kids we hired the pedal boats and canoes it was very self very well run will definitely come back do it again

Ace sailing taster lesson yesterday, so much fun! will be booking for a series of lessons thank you!

A star each for the country park, the fun park, the lakes, the forest, the flora and fauna, well laid paths for walking, cycling and segwaying besides rowing in lakes in a clean, serene and safe environment. The fun park recently artistically refurbished with beautiful landscaping, natural wood, plants and trees makes provision for fun and sport, partying , merry-making and picnicking for persons of all ages and abilities.

A brilliant day out. I did the RYA powerboat level 2 course on a one to one basis. Very knowledgeable instructor, great equipment and a fabulous lake to learn on.

Great day with the family trying out things, staff friendly & helpful will definitely be booking up future activities

A great location for kids to enjoy an introduction to a range of watersports.

We came to the Easter egg hunt today... How disappointing. It certainly wasn't aimed at kids... Even adults were standing around scratching their heads. The 'tasks' made no sense so the kids were bored in 2 seconds while the adults tried to figure out what on earth we were supposed to be doing.

I was hoping for a nice walk around the lake looking for clues/eggs etc . Nope.. More like a 5 min walk around a small field that seemed to have no relevance to an 'egg hunt'.

Only for the kids to be given a small hollow 'easter egg' at the end (once we'd handed in their forms with a load of made up rubbish on)

It wasn't fun, it was frustrating. I definitely won't be doing this again.