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MORE FAMILY WALKING HOLIDAYS
HF Holidays has three-night family walking holidays in the Shropshire hills on August 5 and 12 from £479 per adult, £45 per child aged 11-17 and free for children under 11. The price includes full-board accommodation in its country house hotel, experienced family-friendly leaders and all transport to and from walks.
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Headwater has a six-night self-guided Literary Walking in the Lake District family holiday from £1,099 based on daily departures between now and October 31, 2023. The trip is suitable for children aged eight-plus and includes accommodation, breakfasts, one evening meal, maps and route directions, luggage transfers between hotels, and arrival and departure transfers from Windermere station.
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Exodus Travel has a six-night self-guided Jewels of the Jurassic Coast family walking holiday from £929 based on dates this summer and beyond. The trip is suitable for children aged eight-plus and includes accommodation, breakfasts, luggage transfers and the Headwater Navigation app.
exodus.co.uk
Old Harry Rocks, Dorset
COUNTRY HOUSE COMFORT Our holiday was based at HF’s Dovedale country house, The Peveril of the Peak, which has comfortable bedrooms, a lounge stocked with kids’ games, a boot room in which to dry clothes, grounds for children to play in, a conference room that is used for evening entertainment, and a bar for a well-deserved post-walk G&T. We stayed with around 40 other guests, all families, with children ranging from five to 17, accompanied by
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Stanage Edge; lake-viewing platform near Buxton; Dovedale stepping stones PICTURES: Shutterstock/Valdis Skudre, Lukasz Pajor, Andy Lyons, Wirestock Creators
fossils while crossing Dovedale’s famous stepping stones, heard the story of a woman whose billowing skirt saved her from death at Lover’s Leap, and were now heading up the River Dove towards Lion’s Head Rock – which, according to my eight-year-old daughter, looks more like a baboon. The walk was part of my four-night Peak District
Family Walking Adventure with HF Holidays, on which I was accompanied by my husband, eight-year-old daughter, May, and five-year old son, Zac. It’s the company’s newest family trip but, despite being launched in 2021, Covid-19 restrictions meant that, by the time we visited in spring 2022, less than a handful of trips had run. The tour proved so popular, though, that last week – after its original 2022 dates had sold out – HF Holidays added more availability for the rest of the year and into 2023.
33Children are rewarded for their efforts with certificates, signed by the leaders, detailing the miles they’ve covered
an assortment of parents and grandparents. The sociable formula of these trips – from meals around shared tables to daily games and activities – means that clients who are solo parents or grandparents with children will feel welcome and will have plenty of opportunities to talk to other adults and relax while the children play.
INDEPENDENT ADVENTURING My son’s independence on our Dovedale walk was a theme of the trip, from the evening we arrived when he decided that he’d rather socialise and be on another family’s quiz team to our final night when he sat with his new friends to watch the gala show and confidently performed a solo rendition of White Christmas – in April. Despite being walking holiday newbies, we slipped into the rhythm of the trip quickly. Each evening, we’d choose the next day’s route after a pre-dinner “walk talk”, putting our packed lunch orders in and taking
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