Life's about experiences. These are mine.
While the children were off doing childreny things this morning myself and my younger son again went on another adult activity. Before coming here we both went through the list of activities available and came up with a shortlist from which we picked two things that we were interested in doing. Yesterday we did archery …
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In order to do something that wasn’t aimed at a three year old a couple of us went to the Target Centre this morning to do archery. The Target Centre was a reasonable distance from the lodge and looking at the map didn’t seem possible to reach by bike. This was because it was at …
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For the second year running we are back at Center Parcs Longleat for a family holiday. This year there are two more of us than there were last year as we now have a second granddaughter and our younger son is here too. It’s really nice to get the whole family together like this and …
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One of the most annoying things, for me, about Center Parcs is being constantly asked “what’s your lodge number?” when going to pay for anything. It reminds me of being in a duty free shop at the airport and always being asked your flight number. They do this for exactly the same reasons – marketing …
Continue reading “Center Parcs 2021 – Day Four – You are the Machine”
The last day of any holiday is always one of packing and waiting and Center Parcs is no different. You have to be out of the lodge by 10am but you can stay on until the end of the day if you wish. We had decided to stay until lunchtime and so once we had …
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I’ve walked a long way today – 8.2 miles to be precise. This actually takes some doing as while Longleat Center Parcs is reasonably self contained you can cover quite a lot of ground if you don’t plan your sessions with some care. So it was that we found ourselves first thing walking over to …
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It’s been a while since we have been to Center Parcs, eight years in fact, and quite a bit has changed in that time. Some changes are temporary brought about by the current pandemic but others are permament. The most noticable change was obvious from the moment that you arrive at the welcome huts at …
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I read a very sniffy article about Center Parcs recently where the author highlighted the fact that given you are paying upwards of £300 a night you are only supplied with a £10 kettle. Admittedly this particular author is used to reviewing high end hotels but I really think he was missing the point somewhat. …