How to hit your steps per day AND have fun!

Attractiontix

January 10, 2017
9:25 am

If you’re looking for a way to kick start your health and fitness journey, start with tracking the number of steps you do on a daily basis!

To make things a little easier, why not combine walking with something you enjoy like travel? Our research shows that walking around attractions could help you burn some serious calories on your day out. As experts in attractions, we decided to look at how many steps you’d typically walk around some of our attractions and calculate* how many calories you’d burn on a day out.

Exercise in disguise AND you get to tick a few things off your bucket list, what are you waiting for? Get your pedometer on and get walking!

How many steps should you walk a day?

According to the NHS, you should be walking 10000 steps a day!

How many miles is 10000 steps?

10000 steps in miles equates to roughly 5 miles, depending on how fast you walk, that could take up to 1 hour 20 minutes.

That’s a very long and boring walk on a treadmill, but why not find a more fun way to walk?

Here are the top attractions to help you hit your 10000 steps per day:

Festive calories you can burn off:

Attraction	Calories burned	Mulled wine	Mini chocolates	Mince pies
		(120cal)	(45cal)	(261cal)
Disneyland Paris Resort (2 parks)	1234	10	27	5
Alton Towers Resort	1138	9	25	4
Siam Park	895	7	20	3
Sagrada Familia & Gaudi Buildings Tour	803	7	18	3
The Louvre	595	5	13	2

Here’s the full research:

Attraction	Location	Total no. of miles	Total no. of steps	Total calories burned
Walt Disney World Resort- Magic Kingdom	Orlando, USA	6.6	16,500	1,558
Walt Disney World Resort-Epcot Studios	Orlando, USA	6.3	15,750	1,510
Universal Studios	Orlando, USA	4.9	12,210	1,331
Walt Disney World Resort- Animal Kingdom	Orlando, USA	6.2	15,480	1,270
Walt Disney World Resort- Hollywood Studios	Orlando, USA	6.3	15,660	1,255
Busch Gardens	Orlando, USA	7.9	19,740	1,242
Disneyland Paris Resort (2 parks)	Paris, France	10.0	25,000	1,233
SeaWorld Orlando	Orlando, USA	8.6	21,525	1,179
Alton Towers Resort	Staffordshire, UK	7.8	19,500	1,138
Universal’s Islands of Adventure	Orlando, USA	7.4	18,540	1,071
PortAventura World	Barcelona, Spain	5.0	12,600	1,018
Thorpe Park Resort	London, UK	4.6	11,475	999
Ferrari World	Abu Dhabi, UAE	4.2	10,600	984
Blackpool Pleasure Beach	Blackpool, UK	3.5	8,800	953
Siam Park	Costa Adeje, Tenerife	4.5	11,250	895
Sagrada Familia & Gaudi Buildings Tour	Barcelona, Spain	7.0	17,500	803
Hampton Court Palace and Gardens	London, UK	6.2	15,375	767
At the Top, Burj Khalifa	Dubai, UAE	0.6	1,500	726
Warwick Castle	Warwick, UK	2.8	7,073	723
Tower of London	London, UK	4.6	11,375	697
The Louvre	Paris, France	4.5	11,250	595
Cadbury world	Birmingham, UK	2.1	5,250	491
Harry Potter Walking Tour	London, UK	3.0	7,500	430
The Eiffel Tower	Paris, France	1.5	3,750	365
Dubrovnik Walking Tour	Dubrovnik, Croatia	1.0	2,500	243
9/11 Memorial & Museum	New York City, USA	0.5	1,250	222
Empire State Building	New York City, USA	0.8	1,875	183

*Data correct at time of publishing

*Collected by mapping out the walking route around each attraction, calculating the number of times you typically walk around, number of steps and the corresponding calories burned by walking.