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hy are pirates so cool? Just because they aaaaargh!

Which means there’s no better way to impress the kids than by spending a night with them - on board a ship manned by real life salty sea dogs.

To experience the next level of interactive family entertainment, book yourself on a Golden Hinde sleepover. The Golden Hinde is a full-size working reconstruction of Sir Francis Drake’s Tudor warship so realistic that with costumes donned, you’ll have to pinch yourself to remind yourself you are in London.

It’s time to take a breath and prepare to be thrown in at the deep end, as your pirate hosts/captors describe the horrible history of life on the high seas with the gore–factor cranked up to red.

Kids will love every gruesome detail as the lice-riddled reality of 16th century ocean travel is brought to life with lots of enthusiastic role playing. Watch out for those barber-surgeons always on the look-out for another amputation. When the suns falls and night sets in, the expression ‘all-hands on deck’ has never been more apt as the Spanish attack.

After all that swashbucklin’, it’s time to head down below to the cannon deck for bed. Next morning when it’s time to go back to terra firma, you’ll find your kids are landlubbers no more.