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Primary Times Reader Star Award Winners
The 2017 results...
THIS year there have been record levels of you, our Primary Times readers, voting in the Primary Times Reader Star Awards, for your favourite local family friendly places and people in Cornwall.
The results from all the completed surveys,exhibit an honest reflection of where you prefer to spend your free time, providing a useful glimpse into what’s universally popular with local families.
Now, it’s time to reveal the names of the lucky winners!
This year, the prestigious family attraction category has been awarded to Camel Creek Adventure Park. This attraction, now in its second .jpg)
year, continues to make its mark on the local community, highlighting its ability to cater for the needs of the discerning visitor. Readers are impressed with the extensive range of rides and facilities, variety of children’s activities and overall appearance of this enormously popular attraction.
Primary Times’ readers appear to enjoy dining out and it was interesting to read the broad spectrum of answers to the family friendly eating place category. The delicious food served up at Sam’s Diner in Par helped it to secure the winning place with The Quintrell Inn in Newquay as a close second.
The all-weather facilities at Camel Creek ensured that this Wadebridge located attraction scored the most votes in the Outdoor Play category. As for Indoor Play, the massive adventure play zone at Cornucopia enabled it to scoop the highest number of nominations.
The Sports Venue category was awarded to the Byrne Black Belt Academy who acquired the most votes, with Polkyth Leisure Centre coming up as a close second.
The amazing party packages offered at Dairyland Farm World near Newquay enabled it to reach the top spot in the children’s party venue category, and the interesting artefacts, interactive exhibits, historical stories and various family events contributed to National Maritime Museum Cornwall gaining the most votes in the Museum and Historical Attraction group.
Camel Creek Adventure Park was chosen as the Primary Times Reader Star Award Overall Winner in Cornwall. This is a great result for this all-weather family attraction, reflecting its ability to adapt to the needs of local families.
Linda Edwards, Publishing Editor at Primary Times said:
“We are thrilled with the extraordinary response to this year’s Reader Star Award survey and we’d like to say a massive thank you to all the readers who took part. The results are sure to help other local families decide what to do and where to go. Each individual category winner deserves worthy recognition as they are clearly offering something that our readers want. We’d also like to congratulate Camel Creek Adventure Park on being such a big hit with our readers once again.”
Overall Winner
Camel Creek Adventure Park
Runner Up: Lappa Valley Steam Railway
On winning the award, Will Broome, Marketing Director at Camel Creek told us:
“We are thrilled to have received our prestigious Primary Times Awards, including ‘Overall Winner’ for the second year running! These Awards are so important to us because they are voted for by the Parents of local Children, who are the heart and soul of Camel Creek Adventure Park! We’re going to be announcing all sorts of exciting initiatives for local families this coming season so we hope to continue to live up to and exceed the expectations of Primary Times readers.”
Other Camel Creek wins...
Family Attraction
Camel Creek Adventure Park
Runner Up: Lappa Valley Steam Railway
Outdoor Play/Activity Centre
Camel Creek Adventure Park
Runner Up: Lappa Valley Steam Railway
Party Venue or Entertainer
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Dairyland Farm World Managing Director, Brian Anderson, said he was over the moon that DairyLand won the award, stating, “We always put 100% effort behind making birthdays at DairyLand farmtastic and hassle free for all the family so we’re incredibly proud to have been named Primary Times’ Favourite Party Venue. Our team always work so hard to make every party special so I would like to congratulate and thank them for this amazing achievement.”
“We get a lot of regular returners who celebrate their birthdays year after year with us because they know that it will always be easy, fun and memorable! It makes it even more special that this award was voted for by Primary Times’ readers; as local families with young children are our main customers so we really value their ongoing support. We would like to thank them wholeheartedly for voting for us - it really means a lot to us!”
Runner Up: Family Adventure - Kidzworld
Indoor Play/Activity Centre
Family Adventure - Kidzworld
"Family Adventure is very proud to win a reader star award again this year and we will continue to strive to make our play facility, customer service and parties even better over the next 12 months.”
Runner Up: Jungle Jack's, Newquay
Sports Venue or Provider 
Byrne Black Belt Academy
Ed Byrne, from the Byrne Black Belt Academy told Primary Times: "The instructors at the Byrne Black Belt Academy are honoured to win the Primary Times Readers Star Award for the 2nd year running. We would like to thank everyone who voted for us, it’s really appreciated."
Runner Up: Polkyth Leisure Centre
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Sam's Diner
Sam's Diner: "We are thrilled to accept the award from the readers of Primary Times for the best family restaurant. Sam’s Diner will be celebrating its first year this December so receiving this brilliant accolade so early on shows how dedicated our staff have been to bringing the well-known ‘Samstyle’ of customer service to our families in Par.
Part of our company make-up is to have something for everyone and to enjoy an open dialogue with our customers which allows us to respond to their needs. The facilities we have on site and the accessibility to other attractions close by make Sam’s Diner ideal for families.
We had hoped that with a dedicated and varied kids’ menu, art competitions, family movie nights and helpful, well trained staff we’d begin to reap the rewards of everyone’s hard work, but this was certainly a huge surprise. Well done team Diner and a huge thank you to everyone that voted!"
Runner Up: The Quintrell Inn, Newquay
Museum or Historical Attraction
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Richard Doughty, Director of The National Maritime Museum Cornwall, said: "The National Maritime Museum Cornwall is delighted to have received this award as it is voted by the Primary Times readers, and therefore our visitors. We’re renowned for being a museum that says ‘Climb Aboard’ rather than ‘Don’t touch!’ In 2018 we’ll be launching a brand new Treasure Island Play Zone and Pirate School."
Runner Up: Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro