Premier staff showcase the new Africa brochure


Strictly dance stars to host masterclasses on HF Holidays breaks


Professional dancers Karen Hardy and Flavia Cacace – stars of Strictly Come Dancing – feature on new special-interest breaks from HF Holidays next year. Cacace will host a ballroom


Swimming with sharks is a new Premier option in Africa


Samantha Mayling


Te chance to swim with white sharks is one of a raſt of options added by Premier Holidays in its new Africa brochure. Te programme features holidays


and add-on tours in South Africa, Victoria Falls, Botswana, Namibia, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zanzibar and Madagascar, and is valid for travel until December 2020. Te White Shark Encounter in


South Africa costs from £135 and clients can view the animals from within a cage below the waves or from a viewing platform on a boat. Also in South Africa is a full-


board three-night Conservation Game Experience at Gondwana Tented Eco Camp, from £649.


£135 Starting price for Premier’s new White Shark Encounter


Clients can take part in animal


monitoring, learn bush skills and travel on game drives. A 10-night Cape Town,


Winelands and Garden Route self-drive holiday makes its debut, offering wine-tasting and wildlife experiences. It costs from £1,479, including international flights, B&B accommodation and car hire. Te operator has two new


options in Cape Town. A Walk to Freedom half-day


JAZZ HANDS: Double Olympic swimming silver medallist Jazz Carlin has officially opened Haven’s waterpark at Seashore Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The Shore Water Park has two 11-metre-high flumes – Tidal Twist and Coastal Cyclone. There is also a multi-lane slide, toddler pool and aqua play area with spray jets and slides. A separate pool offers lane swimming and activities such as pool kayaking. The developments are part of a £100 million investment programme across several Haven sites. haven.co.uk


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excursion to see District Six Museum and Langa Township, the Cape’s oldest apartheid housing scheme, costs from £35, while a helicopter tour costs from £69. New lodges in South Africa’s


Waterberg district include the Entabeni Safari Conservancy, from £115 per night, and the luxury Welgevonden Game Reserve, from £285 per night. Premier has a new five-night


Affordable Botswana escorted add-on tour from £1,999, with two nights’ half-board accommodation in Maun and three nights’ full-board accommodation in Okavango Delta, including transfers, light aircraſt flights, game drives and sightseeing. trade.premierholidays.co.uk


masterclass during a dance weekend at HF Holidays’ Newfield Hall country house in Malham, Yorkshire, next May. Te holiday costs from £399


for three nights’ full-board and includes dance sessions with HF Holidays’ instructors. Cacace will also lead Dance


High Intensity Interval Training sessions during HF Holidays’ Mind & Body Retreat in April. Based at Holnicote House


near Minehead in Somerset, a three-night retreat costs from £385, or £549 for four nights. Tree-night dance holidays


featuring a small-group masterclass by Hardy will run in January and October, in Malham, and Church Streton, Shropshire. Prices start at £399 including


full-board accommodation. Guests can take part in


ballroom and Latin dances, with options to suit different abilities. Other dance breaks focus


on folk, circle, sequence or line dancing, as well as ‘Playford’ style – seen in TV series such as Pride and Prejudice and Poldark. hfholidays.co.uk


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