British holiday information

If you can’t get yourself along to Covent Garden Market this weekend to see the Great Christmas Pudding Race try and check out the Brighton version. Following the success of London’s Great Xmas Pudding Race, the festive fun is coming to Brighton for the first time on Saturday 11th December 2010. The fun starts at [...]

London’s Great Christmas Pudding Race returns this coming weekend, Saturday 4 December 2010. Now in its 30th year, the event raises money for Cancer Research and last year raised £19,000. It may not be too late to register your 6-man team, or just go along for the fun. This year’s fun day out starts at [...]

To get you in the festive spirit and to raise some money for charity, why not take part in the Great Christmas Pudding Race in London’s Covent Garden on Saturday 5 December 2009 at 11am. The race is in the style of it’s a knockout and sees the teams negotiate a course of inflatables and [...]

After all the recent bad press surrounding Christmas themed attractions is nice to see one venue spreading a little Christmas cheer. Alton Towers is offering to save Christmas for the poor people left disappointed by their visit to Lapland New Forest by offering a free day out on Saturday 13 December. Families will be able [...]

What a week it has been for Lapland style attractions and the poor families who had booked to visit. First to make the news this week was the Lapland Experience in the New Forest which opened on the 28 November. As reported in my previous post, there were hundreds of complaints about Lapland Experience – [...]

It’s disappointing when an attraction doesn’t live up to our expectations. One South of England tourist attraction has caused so much outrage that it’s been branded a ‘scam’ by visitors. In fact it has generated so many complaints that it’s been investigated by Dorset Trading Standards, made headline news in several newspapers and had plenty [...]