Welcome to the Nottingham Day Out section. Here you'll find Nottingham's best attractions, tours within the city, key shopping areas and specialist markets, hidden away cafés and, for the adventurous, popular sport and leisure activities.
Nottingham has lots of attractions to easily fill a weekend visit. From the Castle to Wollaton Hall, from the Galleries of Justice to the City of Caves in the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, you'll find it all here.
Here you'll find details of popular tours within the city. Also tours to neighbouring towns and counties. We also include information of cycle hire here so you can go and explore the city yourself!
Nottingham has a rather sprawling shopping centre which since the opening of the Victoria Centre in the 1970s seems to go on forever! We also include historic arcades, city markets, major stores and unique independent shops.
For a bite to eat during the day, Nottingham has plenty of unique cafés hidden away throughout the city centre. There are also plenty of chain coffee shops on the main streets but at the moment we only list the popular independent ones here.
With two football teams, racecourse, Trent Bridge cricket ground and the home of Ice Skating in Britain, Nottingham has a lot to offer. We include the most popular sports here as well as other leisure activities that you might find of interest.
Nottingham Victoria Centre: Men jump into fountain to steal donations - BBC News (19 Dec 2022) 
Call for Nottingham Castle grounds to be reopened to public - BBC News (2 Dec 2022)
Popular riverside paddling pool set to reopen in Nottingham - BBC News (1 Dec 2022)
Nottingham Castle: What went wrong at the flagship attraction? - BBC News (25 Nov 2022)
Nottingham Castle Christmas traders relieved at relocation - BBC News (23 Nov 2022)
Nottingham Castle closes after trust liquidated - BBC News (21 Nov 2022)
Lego railway station model donated to Nottingham museum - BBC News (12 Nov 2022)
Nottingham: Bicycle brand Raleigh to open exhibition centre - BBC News (3 Nov 2022)
Council to spend £278,000 protecting city caves - BBC News (27 Oct 2022)
Nottingham's restored Queen Victoria statue is unveiled - BBC News (15 Oct 2022)
Nottingham McDonald's stormed by gang of youths - BBC News (22 Aug 2022)
Broadmarsh: Images show extent of shopping centre dereliction - BBC News (15 Aug 2022)
Council bans BBQs at parks over fire risk - BBC News (9 Aug 2022)
City council set to back plan to close Victoria Centre market - BBC News (9 Aug 2022)
£1.7m restoration of Nottingham's embankment gardens under way - BBC News (21 Jun 2022)
New Nottingham library £10.5m funding package approved - BBC News (24 May 2022)
Ricky Gervais's After Life inspired Nottingham bench vandalised - BBC News (23 May 2022)
Nottingham's Victoria Centre marks 50 years in city - BBC News (28 Apr 2022)
Former Nottingham Debenhams store given listed status - BBC News (11 Apr 2022)
Safety concerns over Nottingham's upgraded e-scooter fleet - BBC News (15 Mar 2022)
