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Holidays 2010 |
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TV Movies & Theatre 15th – 21st March £495.00 |
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This
week we will get the chance to immerse ourselves in our favourite TV soaps
and films. Amongst the highlights of this popular holiday are: lunch in
the Woolpack, the original pub used in Emmerdale, situated in the village
of Esholt, which was also used as the original Emmerdale village. We will
take the 50-minute journey to Tussauds wax works where we will mix with
the stars of the stage and silver screen. We will sample one of Betty’s
hot pots in the Rovers Return surrounded by characters such as Jack and
Vera, in the Tussauds mock up of Coronation Street. We will spend time at
the National Museum of Film and Television where we will get the chance
see how a television studio works and experience a film on the giant IMAX
screen. We may include an evening at the theatre depending on show schedules
as well as a trip to the cinema to watch the latest blockbuster movie; the
holiday will include a trip to Last of the Summer Wine country where we
will get to see attractions such as Nora Batty’s house exhibition,
and lunch in Sids Café along with a filming location tour, Highlights: mixing with the stars and lunch in the Rovers at Tussauds. Lunch at the Woolpack. Imax Theatre, Last of The Summer Wine filming locations tour Accommodation: Peak Country House, single occupancy available |
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Springtime Farm & Animal 11th – 17th April £495.00 |
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Join us as
we discover what delights and joys the British countryside has to offer
in the spring. On this holiday, we will get to see at close hand how a working
farm operates. As well as getting close up to animals from around the world,
This week we will have the magical experience of bottle-feeding newborn
lambs and goats who have become lost or whose mothers have taken poorly.
We will also have the chance to hold the little bundles of fluff that are
new born chickens. Other highlights of this holiday include a day at the
zoo where we will see and learn about different animals from around the
world. We will also get the opportunity to visit a safari park this to see
some wild animals up close as they roam freely around the park. We will
also be visiting an animal sanctuary: here we will be learning about the
wild life native to Britain, and seeing how sick animals are cared for.
We will spend our evenings creating a pictorial diary and scrapbooks of
the different animals we have discovered Highlights: Lamb & Goat Bottle feeding and petting, Zoo visit, Day at a working farm, The Chestnut Centre wildlife sanctuary. Day at a Safari park |
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Music Week 26th – 30th April £395.00 |
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Join us for
this Music extravaganza. On this holiday, we will be learning about and
playing a variety of musical instruments, as well as watching the London
Palladium’s longest ever running Musical- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!!
We will also be visiting Liverpool, the home of one of the world’s most successful and recognisable bands The Beatles!! This week. Our music tutor will introduce us to several musical instruments and instruct us on their use, giving us the skills to take part in an end of week percussion session. We will also be visiting the Beatles experience in Liverpool’s Albert dock before taking a Ride on the Magical Mystery tour bus stopping off at Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, along with a visit to John Lennon’s and George Harrison’s childhood homes, Finishing of with a stroll along and drinks on Mathews Lane, the home of the Famous Cavern Club where the Beatles picked up their musical influences and first made their name. Highlights: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang musical, the Beatles tour Liverpool, musical instrument tuition and percussion sessions. |
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Health, Beauty & Relaxation 10th – 14th May £395.00 |
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pampered with us in a at Papillion holidays on our health beauty and Relaxation
week. This week we will be taking things easy unwinding and relaxing, We will start the holiday by making our own organic face masks under the supervision of our qualified beauty therapist. On our 2nd day we will visit a health spa for Indian head massage then relax and unwind in a country pub for lunch. On Day three we will be relaxing around our country hall accommodation, with our beauty therapist calling in for a reflexology / foot Massage sessions and an afternoon craft session creating our own Dream catchers. Dream catchers are one a fascinating traditions of Native Americans. A dream catcher was intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while allowing positive dreams pass through. The positive dreams would slip through the hole in the centre of the dream catcher, and glide down the feathers to the sleeping person below. The negative dreams would get caught up in the web. Day 4 sees our beauty therapist visiting for a hair nails and make up session before visiting the cinema to watch the latest romcom and lunch out. Highlights: Health spa treatment, reflexology & Beauty treatment, Cinema Accommodation: Lees Hall country house. |
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Transport Week 21st– 27th May £495.00 |
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This week
we will explore and learn about the many different forms of transport we
have around us. We will step back in time as we travel aboard an old-fashioned
steam train, stopping off at market towns along the way for gift shopping
and lunch. We will visit the air and space museum to learn about flight
from the past, present and the future. We will also be taking a leisurely
canal boat trip along a beautiful stretch of the Yorkshire moorlands. We
will visit the Tram Way museum at Matlock where we will get the opportunity
to ride on trams from around the world, both historical and state of the
art. We will also get the chance for those who wish to ride the Heights
of Abraham cable car in Matlock. Each evening we will fill in your pictorial
holiday diary documenting the different modes of transport we have learnt
about and experienced that day. Highlights: Steam train trip, canal boat trip, Air and Space Museum, Tramway Museum, Heights of Abraham Cable Car, Horse Drawn Carriage Accommodation – peak country house, single occupancy available. |
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Halls Castles & Gardens 1st - 6th June £495.00 |
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This
week we take a leisurely stroll through history and times gone by as we
explore some of the grandest buildings and architecture the North has to
offer. We will visit and tour stately homes such as Chatsworth Hall, Haddon
Hall, and Cannon Hall, we will stroll through the graceful gardens, mazes
and farms of these magnificent homes, admiring the Fountains, Cascades,
and Sculptures as we go as well as getting up close to and feeding the animals
at Cannon Hall Farm. We will pay a visit the RHS award winning gardens of
Tatton Hall and stroll around its magnificent Japanese garden, along with
its award winning Rose and kitchen Gardens. We will also delve deeper into time with visits to Bolsover Castle, along with a visit to the grand architectural monument that is Calk Abby or York Minister and the street of shambles with it’s over hanging buildings dating back to the times when Dick Turpin roamed the streets of York. Of an evening, we will document our day’s activities with a pictorial diary and for those that wish there is a country pub just a few minutes walk away. Highlights: Chatsworth Hall and Gardens, Cannon Hall and Farm, Bolsover Castle, Haddon Hall, Day at York Minster and the shambles |
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Highlights of Scotland 12th – 18th June £495.00 |
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week we visit Bonny Scotland and take in the magnificent scenery, along
with the historic attractions and culture this country has to offer! We will be staying at a holiday park in the picturesque east Lothian area, within easy reach of historical Edinburgh, Sterling and the Trossochs National park. We will spend a day in historical Edinburgh, where we will take the open top bur tour around this city steeped in history and culture, we will visit Edinburgh castle, and for those that wish the dungeons tour. We will take the short trip to Stirling Bridge where we will take a leap into the past to the times of William Wallace (Brave Heart) we will visit Wallace’s tower monument and learn all about the Scottish freedom fighter who took on the might of the king Edward 1st and his mighty army! Keeping on the theme of the movies we will visit Rosslyn Chapel (Da Vinci code) will you be able to crack the codes and mysteries this quaint chapel keeps secret! Along with a shopping trip to the historical Stirling we will spend a day in the Trossochs National park spending time around Loch Lomond and learning about another of Scotland’s heroes at the Rob Roy visitors centre and exhibition Highlights: Edinburgh castle and city tour Edinburgh dungeons tour, Rosslyn chapel, Wallace’s tower at Stirling Bridge, Stirling, a day in the Trossochs |
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Early Summer North Wales 4th – 10th July £495.00 |
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Come
and join us on our early summer holiday to North Wales. There will be no
set itinerary for this holiday as You will decide what activities you want
to participate in from the many and varied excursions and days out around
our accommodation. You will be given choices from the attractions around us such as visits to the sea life centre, days playing sport and games on the beech, crazy golf, welsh mountain zoo, steam train rides, Ten pin bowling and many more seaside attractions: the choice is all yours. We will have a group meeting on our arrival where we will discuss what’s on offer and you simply chose your favourite activities. We will be staying in two luxuries spacious 8-berth static homes situated within walking distance to the beach. You will have the choice of spending your evenings at the Holiday Parks entertainment and cabaret shows, or perhaps you would just like to sit and relax watching the latest DVD Accommodation: 2 Luxury static homes at Talacre Beach Holiday resort, 4 single room places & 4 twin room places |
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Sport and Leisure 18th – 24th July £495.00 |
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This
week we will be taking part in, learning about, and visiting many different
types of popular sports, past times and sporting stadium. We will be attending a pre season Football match featuring a premiership team if possible depending on fixtures available at the time, as well as attending a Lancashire County Cricket match at Old Trafford Cricket Stadium. Also available on this day as an optional extra excursion, and for those that wish, at a supplement determined by the club (usually around £15 - £25) there would be the chance to visit Old Trafford Football stadium, the home of Manchester United, for the official Old Trafford Stadium Tour, There will be a visit to the National Football Museum situated at DeepDale, Home to one of the oldest football clubs in the world, Preston North End. Here we will get to see many exhibits of football memorabilia from around the world, examine haw the game has changed through the years, as well as showing off our own football skills in a penalty shoot out against a life size computerised Goal Keeper. We will take a trip to Anfield, home of Liverpool FC and visit the museum of the most successful Football Club in English History. We will get to see an original European Cup along with FA Cups and many more, along with cinema screenings of the clubs lustrous history. On our tour of the Anfield Stadium, we will get to see and have photo opportunities of sites such as the Shankly Gates, the Hillsborough Memorial, as well as getting photo opportunities and the chance to sit in the Home Team dressing room, managers dug out and the famous Kop end terrace As well as visiting sporting venues, this week we will also get the opportunity to participate in several sporting activities. We will split into teams and compete for several Papillon Holidays Sports week trophies: Beach cricket, Ten Pin Bowling, French Boules, and crazy golf being amongst the sports we will participate in as well as an end of week question of sport quiz. All our holidaymakers will go home winners and will have a trophy presentation evening where each member of the teams will be presented with an engraved individual participation trophy along with any individual event achievement trophies they may have won throughout the week. The itinerary for this holiday may change to include a sporting event that is not currently scheduled at the time of the brochure print, in the past this has included a athletics meeting , world championship qualifier, Highlights: Football pre season match, Anfield and Old Trafford stadium tour, Lancashire County Cricket match. Ten Pin Bowling, Beach Cricket. Crazy golf, National Football Museum |
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Summer
Holiday 1. Lancashire Coast 7th - 13th August
£525 |
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Join
us for fun in the sun on our Lancashire coast Summer Holiday. There will be no set itinerary for this Summer Holidays as You and the rest of the group can decide how you want to spend your time on this Holiday and what activities you would like to participate in from the varied excursions, day trips and evenings out on the Lancashire coast line! We will be spending days in Blackpool, Morecambe, The trough of Bowland, and Windermere in the Lake District, all within easy reach of our holiday park, you will be able to chose as a group from the many varied activities this area has to offer including Blackpool’s Tower, Circus, Zoo, and Pleasure beach, Bowlands Wild life sanctuaries, and Windermere’s Motor boat and Steam boat rides. You will have the choice of spending your evenings at the Holiday Park’s entertainment and cabaret shows, or perhaps you would like to sit and relax watching the latest DVD The choice really is all yours. You can see what kind of activities other groups have chosen on past holidays by: checking out our Galleries page then the Summer Holidays page link |
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| Summer Holiday 2. North Wales 23rd - 13th August £545 |
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Come and join
our fun in the sun on our North Wales Summer Holiday You can see what kind of activities
other groups have chosen on past holidays by: checking out our Galleries
page then the Summer Holidays page link |
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