Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events 2024

The English

National Ballet ‘Giselle’ 

🗓  Wednesday 17th January

1 night at the 4-Star Clermont Charing Cross Hotel, best centre stalls seats at The London
Coliseum for ‘Giselle’ presented by the English National Ballet and Philharmonic Orchestra. Excursions include the National Gallery’s guided tour ‘Heroes and Villains’. 

The Birmingham International Tattoo 

🗓  Saturday 10th February

3 nights at the 4-Star Crowne Plaza Birmingham
NEC, with best seats at the Birmingham International Tattoo, with military marching bands, pipes and drums in a celebration of pomp and pageantry. This holiday Includes West Midlands excursions and guided tours. 

Jesus Christ

Superstar

🗓  Thursday 29th February

2 nights at the Clarendon Hotel, Blackheath. Best centre stalls seat at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley for the musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Trips to Eltham Palace, Maritime Greenwich with the Old Royal Naval College and Cutty Sark.

Easter in the

English Riviera

🗓  Thursday 28th March

5 nights at the seafront 4-Star Mercure Hotel Paignton, excursions include a ‘Round Robin’
day trip on a heritage steam train, river cruise and open top bus, a guided tour of Torre Abbey, visits to Oldway Gardens and the picturesque 16th Century Cockington Village, 

Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House

🗓  Wednesday 9th April

One night at the 4-star Park Plaza London Waterloo with best orchestra stalls at the Royal Opera House to see ‘Madama Butterfly’ and a visit to the V&A Museum exhibition of the largest collection of Beatrix Potter artworks in the world, donated by Leslie Linder. 

Cornwall

& its Heritage

🗓  Monday 15th April

4 nights at the 4-star Carlyon Bay Hotel, Saint Austell, excursions include Trerice Manor, Pencarrow House, and Lanhydrock with art, antiques and gardens, the Eden Project with Rain Forest and Mediterranean Biomes, the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden. 

South Wales

The Vale of Glamorgan  

🗓  Monday 29th April

5 nights at the 4-Star Delta by Marriott Swansea, excursions and guided tours include Aberglasney Gardens, Llancaiach Fawr Manor, Cyfarthfa Castle Art Gallery, Brecon Mountain Railway, and best seats for 'Pretty Woman: The Musical' at Wales Millennium Centre. 

The Island of Jersey

🗓  Monday 13th May

4 nights at the 4-Star Atlantic Hotel, Mont de la Pulente, Jersey. Excursions include The Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, the Occupation Tapestry, Samarès Manor Gardens, La Hougue Bie, Eric Young Orchid Foundation, The Jersey War Tunnels and The Glass Church.

The New Forest

🗓  Monday 27th May

4  nights in the 4 Star Solent Hotel & Spa, excursions include Exbury Gardens and Steam Railway, Palace House, Beaulieu, Highcliffe Castle, Furzey Gardens, Bolderwood Deer Sanctuary, tours of New Forest villages and ‘Wicked’ the Musical at the Mayflower Theatre. 

The Aldeburgh Music Festival

🗓  Friday 14th June

3 nights in the 4-star Salthouse Harbour Hotel, best stalls seats at the snape Maltings Concert Hall for two performances from the annual Aldeburgh Music Festival, a guided tour or Historic Ipswich and the constable and Gainsborough Collections at Christchurch Mansion.

Garsington Opera

Le Nozze de Figaro

🗓  Friday 28th June

1 night at the 4-star Crowne Plaza, Gerrards Cross. Arriving in evening dress at Wormsley Estate mid-afternoon we can enjoy the gardens and grounds before the opera begins early evening in a stunning outdoor setting with dining during the long interval. 

Royal London

🗓  Monday 12th July


4 nights at the 4-Star Park Plaza Hotel, Westminster Bridge with tours to all things Royal
including, Buckingham Palace State Rooms, The Queen’s Gallery, Kensington Palace, the Tower of London and the Royal Opera House.

The Lake District & Summer Music Festival

🗓  Sunday 28th July

4 nights at the 4-Star MacDonald Old England Hotel, Windermere for two Summer Music Concerts, excursions to Ullswater, Dalemain Mansion & Gardens, Wordsworth House, Beatrix Potter's gallery at the Amritt Museum and a cruise on Lake Windermere.

Gilbert & Sullivan Festival Buxton

🗓  Thursday 8th August

3 nights at the 5-star recently renovated Buxton Crescent Health Spa Hotel with best Dress Circle seats at Buxton Opera House to see ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ and ‘The Gondoliers’ performed by the acclaimed G&S Opera Company. Includes excursions to local attractions. 

The Isle of Wight

🗓  Monday 2nd September

5 nights at the 4-star Lakeside Park Hotel with excursions to Osborne House, Carisbrooke
Castle, Blackgang Chine, Quarr Abbey, The Needles, Brading Roman Villa, Ventnor Botanic Gardens. 

Bishop Auckland & Durham

🗓  Tuesday 17th September

4 nights at the 4-star Hardwick Hall Hotel, Sedgefield with excursions to Bishop Auckland to visit the Castle, the Mining and Spanish Art Galleries and the Faith Museum and to Durham for tours of the Cathedral, Castle, Botanical Gardens and Oriental Museum. 

Cheltenham

🗓  Weds 20th November

4 nights at the 4-star Cheltenham Chase Hotel Brockworth, on the edge of the Cotswolds, with visits to Highgrove House, Hidcote Manor, Chavenage Manor and picturesque Tetbury, a tour of the Cotswolds Villages with a Blue Badge Guide and a trip to the theatre. 

Glyndebourne

🗓  11th Oct & 16th October

3 or 4 night holidays at The View Hotel with plush accommodation and panoramic views across Eastbourne’s seafront, best Foyer Circle seats at Glyndebourne for two operas (awaiting listings). This holiday includes local day excursions and guided tours.

Gilbert & Sullivan Portugal River Cruise 

🗓  Monday 4th November

Return flights to Portugal for an

8-night Duoro River Cruise through Portugal and Spain, exploring historic wineries and charming riverside towns like Pinhão and Régua. Onboard performances presented by the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company throughout.

Christmas at Blenheim Palace

🗓  Monday 9th December

3 nights at the 4-Star Leonardo Royal Hotel Oxford for ‘Christmas at Blenheim Palace’ to see State Rooms filled with festive decorations and a light show in the grounds. Includes a tour of The Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera Oxford and a visit to Rousham House, Bicester.  

Christmas

Celebrations

🗓  Tuesday 24th December

3 nights at the 4-Star Bull Hotel, a 17th century coaching inn at Gerrards Cross, including a full
programme of in-hotel entertainment, 4-course Christmas Day Lunch, best seats at a pantomime, games room with playing cards, board games and jigsaws and lots of fun. 

As this calendar of events has been created prior to the individual brochures, destinations, hotels, dates etc may be subject to change. For more information on our holidays please call us. 


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