Directions

You can find The Bear Grylls Adventure at the National Exhibition Centre. It is located just off the M42 at Junction 6.

Please use postcode B40 1NT to find The Bear Grylls Adventure's car park at NEC Car Park East 5. Please park through the barriers to the right hand side of the car park. Or, using what3words, the entrance to our car park is ///letter.rapid.almost

Parking costs are as follows once your yellow token is validated:

Please validate your yellow token at the attraction to make use of this reduced car parking fee. You will receive the yellow token from the barrier upon entry to the car park. Please note that car park payment is cashless.

Please ensure that you bring your yellow token to the attraction to validate in order to ease your journey home. You will pay for your parking upon return to the car park at the pay machine. 

Please leave enough time as there's an approx. 12 min walk from the car park to our adventure park.

VIEW CAR PARK LOCATION HERE

The nearest train station to The Bear Grylls Adventure is Birmingham International.

The attraction is then just a 10 minute walk through The NEC. 

Travel to The Bear Grylls Adventure with CrossCountry - with Birmingham at its heart, the CrossCountry train network provides fast train services connecting Birmingham International to major cities across Britain.

Buy your CrossCountry Advance train tickets from the CrossCountry website or through the Train Tickets app

The Bear Grylls Adventure has limited blue badge parking right next to the attraction. To secure a slot please click here and book 1 slot for the date and time required. On the day you MUST bring your parking ticket and blue badge to present to the NEC security team. On the day, please enter via NEC Gate 1, where security will direct you to our site side parking. Access will only be granted for those who have pre-booked a space and show their blue badge.

Please note- We have incredibly limited spots, If there are no tickets showing as available for the date and time of your visit then this means the spaces are fully booked– if they are full you will need to park in the main car park and use the accessible spaces there. Please note our main car park is a 15-minute walk from the attraction entrance

The Bear Grylls Adventure is located at the National Exhibition Centre, just a few minutes from Birmingham International Airport, so has a wide range of hotels on its doorstep. 

Guests of The Bear Grylls Adventure can enjoy 20% discount on room rates including breakfast and complimentary parking at The Hilton Birmingham Metropole, just a five minute walk away, by clicking here.

Or if you fancy venturing into the city, the fantastic Hilton Garden Inn is located at Brindley place, right at the heart of the action, and you can save on a stay when clicking here!