Christmas and New Year holidays for 2008 are available at all our Country House accommodation in Britain and offer you the chance to enjoy spectacular winter scenery and festive celebrations at this special time of year. Just relax, soak up the house party atmosphere for which we are famous and leave all the organising to us. Guided walks are available during the day, with our experienced Leaders, and evening activities include dancing, quizzes, carol evenings and New Year celebrations.

Choose from our popular Festive Walking, Sightseeing and House Party breaks below.

Before the Celebrations Start
Festive Walking in Britain
Traditional House Party
High Days & Hogmanays for Solo
Sightseeing & House Party
Twixmas Breaks

Before the Celebrations Start

If you’d like to feel as though Christmas has come early, how about kicking off your celebrations with one of our holiday ideas with a Christmas theme? Warm up your singing voice in time for Christmas on our Songs for Christmas break. With a pleasant mix of Christmas songs and show music, there is no better way to express the warmth and joy of the season! (Some sight-reading ability of music is needed.)

Join one of our Tinsel & Turkey Breaks for the chance to get into the Christmas spirit just before the festive season starts. You can enjoy all the Christmas trimmings as well as a choice of guided walks adapted from our Classic Walking programme and plenty of festive fun.

All prices are in £’s per person and include FULL BOARD, en-suite accommodation, holiday programme, transport costs, services of leaders and 17½% VAT.

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Festive Walking in Britain

A great seasonal blend of guided walks and fun-packed evening programme. There’ll be a choice of walks each day - adapted from our Classic Walking programme subject to the time of year. For more information on our Classic Walking programme, please refer to the corresponding location pages by clicking here. After evening dinner there’ll be social activities with a festive theme including dancing, quizzes, carol evenings and New Year celebrations, to name just a few. The food will match the seasonal celebrations - you’ll certainly need a daily outing to walk off the festive fare.

What’s included? ....
.... Virtually everything

• Wonderful meals - full selection at breakfast, your choice of picnic lunch, an excellent evening meal, afternoon tea and cakes, and plenty of festive sweets and nuts.
• A programme of organised walks and social activities.
• Any transport to and from walks.

All prices are in £’s per person and include FULL BOARD, en-suite accommodation, holiday programme, transport cost, services of leaders and 17½% VAT.

Prices include en-suite facilities, some premium en-suite rooms may be available at an extra cost of £5 per person per night.

Some rooms without en-suite facilities may be available for a reduction of £5 per person per night at some locations.

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Traditional House Party

A special package of traditional holidays over Christmas and New Year, particularly suitable for the older holidaymaker. Our Leaders will offer a mix of optional social activities, gentle rambles up to 4 miles and coach excursions: ideal for the holidaymaker who prefers not to walk all or every day.

All prices are in £’s per person and include FULL BOARD, en-suite accommodation, holiday programme, transport costs, services of Leaders and 17½% VAT.

Price includes en-suite facilities however some rooms without en-suite facilities may be available for a reduction of £5 per person per night.

At selected houses, serveral premium rooms are available at a supplement of £5 per person per night. Click here for further details.

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High Days & Hogmanays Just for Solos

The Isle of Arran at any time of the year is a walker’s delight. The landscape is superb, Scotland at its best, with remote glens, high moors and soaring peaks, offering scope for walkers of all interests and abilities, whilst after your day’s walking, Altachorvie House awaits to offer you a warm house party welcome. This programme is for solo guests of all ages , and so whether you come alone or with friends, you’ll find our unique blend of social walking and house party fun is the ideal combination for Christmas and the Scottish New Year.

All prices are in £’s per person and include FULL BOARD, en-suite accommodation, holiday programme, transport costs, services of leaders and 17½% VAT.

Prices include en-suite facilities, some premium en-suite rooms may be available at an extra cost of £5 per person per night.

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Sightseeing & House Party

Here we combine a winter sightseeing tour with a festive house party. We are offering a choice of locations, Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds, and Whitby in the North York Moors. Four or five trips are included each with a hot lunch out (included in the price), often at interesting old inns and rustic pubs.

At Bourton-on-the-Water - explore ancient cities, towns and glorious Cotswolds villages at this wonderfully atmospheric time of year as well as enjoying the conviviality of a traditional house party. Five day tours include the Forest of Dean, where we will enjoy lunch at a rustic 15th century pub, a festive ride on the Gloucester & Warwickshire Steam Railway from Toddington to Cheltenham, and the fabulous Arts and Crafts house of Rodmarton Manor, where we shall enjoy coffee and a guided tour. The famous attractions of Stratford, where we can see some of the famous sights by coach or take a backstage theatre tour, and Cirencester, home of the largest wool church in the Cotswolds, also feature. If shopping’s your thing, there will be time to indulge in the unique; we visit the historic market town of Tetbury, famous for its antique shops, or sale bargains; with some free time around bustling, cosmopolitan Oxford.

At Whitby - enjoy our traditional Christmas house party and at the same time see some of the best of North Yorkshire. We will tour various parts of the North York Moors along with stops in some of the towns and villages sure to be looking festive with decorations and coloured lights at this time of year. The seafaring town of Whitby is on our doorstep and we’ll encounter more tales of Captain Cook elsewhere on our travels. A ride on the North York Moors Railway through stunning scenery will bring us to the market town of Pickering, and whilst in Scarborough we’ll take you to a performance at the theatre or pantomime. The highlight for some is bound to be our full day in York where as well as visiting the wonderful Minster you will be able to enjoy a guided walking tour with a local expert along the famous snickleways and alleys. A hot light lunch will be provided on our sightseeing days, sometimes in an atmospheric village inn along the way. To enjoy this holiday to the full you will need to be able to walk for some time through town and village streets.

All prices are in £’s per person and include ALL MEALS, en-suite accommodation, holiday programme, transport costs, services of leaders and 17½% VAT.

Price includes en-suite facilities however some rooms without en-suite facilities may be available for a reduction of £5 per person per night.

Some premium en-suite rooms may be available at an extra cost of £5 per person per night.

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Twixmas Breaks

If you are always stuck for things to do between Christmas and New Year - Twixmas! - or feel that you really need some fresh air and exercise after having had far too much to eat for days, you are in need of a Festive Walking break. Choose one of our wonderful Festive Walking holidays and we’ll guarantee a lovely Country House atmosphere, great walks during the day, superb dinners in the evening, in short, a real treat for you after the busy Christmas days.

All prices are in £’s per person and include FULL BOARD, en-suite accommodation, holiday programme, transport costs, services of Leaders and 17½% VAT.

Some rooms without en-suite facilities may be available for a reduction of £5 per person per night at some locations.

Some premium en-suite rooms may be available at an extra cost of £5 per person per night.

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