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Seaside resorts
How to be a
coast master
With the UK expecting a summer holiday boom, traditional coastal resorts may well
be back in fashion. Dave Richardson looks at what’s available for a range of clients
SOUTH COAST. also like stepping back in time, with a where the new Leisure Pass is available.
Holiday villages Victorian steam railway and Queen You can pre-book up to 20 sports and water
A famous old railway poster trumpeted that Victoria’s Osborne House. activities including fencing, archery, tennis
“summer comes sooner in the south”, and Wightlink and Red Funnel both offer and football coaching, and scuba diving.
there’s a good choice of villages to suit most packages, and Wightlink has a new activities One of Hoseasons’ properties is Gwel an
tastes. trail and Not the Beach Again kids’ guide, Mor Coastal Lodges near the fishing village
Haven has six centres in the south, while handy for when the sun doesn’t shine. of Portreath in Cornwall, where prices for a
sister company Warner offers Experiences Superbreak recommendations for “cool” week in August start from £1,249 for four
breaks at its two resorts. hotels include the designer myhotel in people. A new Tregea Premier VIP Lodge
Its Norton Grange property on the Isle of Brighton, “with a bed that is as aesthetically boasts an outdoor hot tub, with a week in
Wight is offering courses such as painting pleasing as it is inviting”, from £99 per August costing £2,379 for six people.
landscapes, painting with acrylics, painting room; and Hotel du Vin at Poole in Dorset,
with pastels and the art of drawing. with a La Roche tasting table where you can Hotels
Lakeside Coastal Resort on Hayling Island, voyage around the world’s finest vineyards, Superbreak offers the three-star Best Western
which is chalet style, offers learn to sing from £138 per room. Hotel in Torquay. The property was the in-
courses, fencing, bowls coaching for spiration for TV comedy Fawlty Towers, but
beginners and yoga. Other options has now been transformed into a boutique
The third member of the Bourne Leisure There are plenty of cottages and grand hotel after a multimillion-pound makeover.
family, Butlins, is opening the £20 million houses near the sea, in areas including the Prices for the peak summer season start from
Ocean Hotel at Bognor Regis in September, New Forest. Cottages4you (which includes £129 per room including breakfast.
with 200 luxury rooms. Blakes) offers its own take on history with
the grade two-listed, Regency-style house Other options
Hotels Navarino at Ryde, Isle of Wight. It costs Again, there’s a wide range of cottages and
Bournemouth is hoping to attract customers £2,482 for seven nights’ self-catering, houses, many in scenic or historic locations.
who would usually go on holiday abroad by arriving on July 18 and sleeping 10. Quayside in Charlestown, Cornwall, is a
encouraging restaurants and grade two-listed cottage with views over the
hotels to accept the spare euros SOUTH. harbour, only a short drive from the Eden
many people have tucked away in WEST. Project. It is available through Cottages4you
drawers. The uber-trendy Urban Holiday villages for £1,110 for seven nights’ self-catering
Beach has already signed up. Here they range from Butlins’ from July 11, and sleeps six.
But traditional hotels are still mega-resort at Minehead –
top choice, with over-55s coach where £1.3 million has been NORTH-WEST/.
specialist Grand UK Hotels offer- invested in an upgrade – NORTH WALES.
ing an Isle of Wight of Yesteryear to the many smaller Holiday villages
package at its own Parkbury Hotel from parks offered by Hoseasons. The north Wales coast is sometimes
£259, including two excursions. Devon Cliffs near described as a long caravan park, but there
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A short ferry ride to the island may give Exmouth is one of are also more entertainment-orientated holi-
the impression of going “abroad” but it is Haven’s top resorts, and one day villages both here and in the north-west.
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