The Ackers

The Ackers brings adventurous activities into the heart of Birmingham! It offers skiing, snowboarding, climbing, canoeing, archery, orienteering, tobogganing and much more on its 70 acre green site. It is just two miles from the city centre. This is a great outdoors to choose.

This place has no polish whatsoever. It's grubby, there's chunks knocked out of the furniture, and people clomping around in muddy boots.

And that's all a really good thing. We took the kids here (seven, five and two) and spent an hour tobogganing on a dreary Saturday afternoon, and it was awesome and incredibly good value for money too - about fifteen quid, all in.

Make sure you take gloves, trainers/boots, or whatever else you need to do your task. Check on the website to see what's going on, and make sure you phone and speak to the lovely people there before turning up, just in case there's a group and you need to book a place.

Try the climbing wall! That's next on my list...

All the instructors at Ackers have to be really highly qualified to get the job, and you get some real quality tuition , pariticularly in the skiing which i recommend. Especially if you're a new skiier, and are perhaps going on a skiing holiday, i sugest you have a few lessons on the dry slope at Ackers first, just to get a grasp of it all. The 100m slope is available as well just to practice on, on certain days, so you can pay for an hour or so and use it unlimited amounts of times.
However, be prepared for the difference in terms of skiing on real snow! The falls can hurt more! Also, I'd advise not to wear loose clothing, because it can get stuck in the webbing of the slopes.


Although, in terms of value this slope is great. It's cheaper than the snowdome and a good laugh!


Site Facilities BBQ Area, Carpark, Facilities for Disabled, Off-street Parking, Picnic Area, Toilets, Training Room(s), Shaded Area