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A one night stop over at the Holiday Inn in Nottingham City Center turned out to be a wonderful experience. I got us a room which had two double beds and included breakfast, the room let us take Paige and Imogen along with us and children under 13 years eat for free, the room was …
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I loved the idea of being city based, yet being able to walk from my hotel 15 minutes alongside pretty water ways to reach a vibrant modern bay area with handsome yachts tied up at the quayside. Striking Millennium building, which seems to change colour with each hour that passes to a spectrum of golds …
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2 Years since we have been to Pentewan Sands near Mevagissey, we went to Hayle last year. We decided to go back to Pentewan mainly because the beach access is wonderful for Paige in her wheelchair, we can drive her chair down the area they use for boats and she is straight on the beach, …
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This article is not about one destination but about the many different types of camping experience I have found. This has been inspired by the current credit crunch and the cost of doing something special with the family. So hi di hi campers, pluck up the courage in our wonderful english summer and take the …
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If you really want to pamper yourself this is the place to go, in fact the spa at the Nottingham village is a little larger but slightly different and both excellent. I went on a special spa day deal 2 for 1 so John and I got the full day for about £80 which included …
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This article is not about the caravan site we stayed on but about Hayle and it’s stunning beaches. Hopefully it will give you a flavour of what we as a family found to there and within the area. Hayle is a small Cornish town that is based around an inland estuary, it has some small …
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I never really felt like going to Tenerife loads of my friends had been all enjoyed it but all came back with stories about it could be cloudy due to the mountains and that some of the well know tourist resorts were very busy and noisy, this did not sound like the place for me. …
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Tunisia is an acquired taste, people tend to love it or hate it, and for me I loved it and would enjoy another trip back there Arriving in Tunisia is a bit of a culture shock as parts of it look as though it could be Iraq, on the journey from airport to resort we …
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We stayed on International drive in Orlando, our first drive in the states along International Drive was quite scary, huge roads, traffic everywhere and we were looking for our hotel also it was getting dark, panic had set in but the fact I had booked us into a huge pink castle for our first 2 …
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I never imagined parts of Florida to be chic, but Sarasota is that, a bit like Henley on Thames but in the states? It has the inland water ways that make you realize how close to the keys you are, and the pelicans that sit on every post they are far more interesting than sea …
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A family favourite for over 25 years, I took my daughter there as a little girl and now we take her children there. We tend to go as a large group; we take a couple of lodges close to each other which means on an evening if we choose not to go out, we have …
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