{"id":25153,"date":"2014-12-02T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=25153"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T14:16:46","slug":"bounce-below-with-santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounce below &#8211; with Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Parents tired of the standard supermarket Santa visit can give their children a truly unique experience this Christmas &#8211; 176 feet under the ground.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25199\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25199\" alt=\"altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25199\" alt=\"altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/altcardiff_Big_bouncebelow_EB-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Bounce Below is popular with adults and children alike. Photos reproduced with permission of Lucy Jones at Bounce Below.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Adventure company Zip World launched Bounce Below in July 2014 &#8211; filling an abandoned Welsh tin mine twice the size of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral with trampolining nets and slides. Visitors take an old mining train deep below the surface of the earth, where they can spend an hour experiencing the world\u2019s first ever subterranean playground.<\/p>\n<p>As Christmas approaches, the central chamber of Bounce Below has been transformed into a Christmas grotto, where children visiting the event will have the chance to meet Santa Claus and receive a special gift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Bounce Below] is the only attraction of its kind in the world,\u201d said Laura Jones, business developer for Bounce Below. &#8220;We\u2019re running the Santa\u2019s grotto on weekends, but if a school or a company wanted to have their own Christmas party with a Santa\u2019s Grotto theme we can arrange that for them during the week.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25200\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25200\" alt=\"IMG_5493 (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25200\" alt=\"IMG_5493 (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The North Wales attraction is the only one of its kind. Photos reproduced with permission of Lucy Jones at Bounce Below<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a few hours out of Cardiff, but for subterranean trampolining fun, we&#8217;d say it&#8217;s absolutely worth it.<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-4e21a178-0ab3-ef60-82ab-624e66c6acab\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit a grotto with a difference this Christmas <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":25200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[4314,4315],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-life","category-uncategorized","tag-bounce-below","tag-trampolining"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bounce below - with Santa Claus - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bounce below - with Santa Claus - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Visit a grotto with a difference this Christmas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-02T14:16:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"altcardiff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"altcardiff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/\",\"name\":\"Bounce below - with Santa Claus - alt.cardiff\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-02T14:16:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/de310c54cac78ee98ab979d1d9838514\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/12\/IMG_5493-2.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":320},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/12\/02\/bounce-below-with-santa-claus\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Bounce below &#8211; 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