Queens Hotel Blackpool Turkey Tinsel and Illuminations: Monday 15th to Friday 19th December. Situated on South Promenade, overlooking the Irish Sea, Queens Hotel offers live entertainment, home-cooked food and free parking. The bright and airy bedrooms are traditionally decorated, and each has a radio, TV and tea/coffee facilities. All rooms feature a private bathroom, and some have wonderful sea views. The Theatre Bar regularly hosts live cabarets, comedy and music .The spacious restaurant serves a full English breakfast and a Table d’hote evening menu. Just a 10-minute walk from Pleasure Beach, Queens Hotel is only 200 metres from South Pier. Blackpool Tower and the Grand Theatre can be reached in a 25-minute seafront stroll. This trip offers coach, four nights half board accusation, entertainment and two excursion.Price £299.00 per person (sharing twin / double room) (limited) single rooms supplement £40.00. Cosy doubles supplement (for singles) £60.00, Sea View £28.00 per person. Coach will depart Stevenage at 09.00
The Great Stink: Wednesday 4th June. Two thousand years ago the Romans enjoyed indoor plumbing but until a couple of hundred years ago Londoners were still emptying their chamber pots out of the window. In 1858 the long hot summer turned into The Great Stink with the Thames little more than an open sewer. Something had to be done. We begin in central London tracking London’s lost rivers, cruise the Thames to Greenwich and drive across the old Thames marshes to the extraordinary Cathedral of Sewage built to house the Crossness Engines. Meet the Blue Badge Guide in the City for morning coffee (included) at a pub with possibly the best loos in London. We tell the story of spending a penny from Roman times to the coming of the flush loo. We trace London’s lost rivers, tell the story of The Great Stink and show you how Victorian engineer Sir Joseph’s Bazalgette achieved one of the most remarkable feats of civil engineering ever seen. Bazalgette stopped London’s waste running into the Thames by building massive intercepting sewers beneath new Embankments created by pushing back the mighty Thames behind stone walls. On Bazalgette’s Victoria Embankment, we board a Thames Pleasure Cruiser to Greenwich. You need to bring packed lunches today to eat during the cruise. From Greenwich the coach whisks us further east past Woolwich to the Thames Marshes and the Cathedral of Sewage. Discover some of our most spectacular ornamental Victorian cast ironwork and possibly the world’s largest surviving beam engines. There’s a museum and a social story here too – the workers lived on site in terraced cottages built right above the massive sewage storage tank. Mesh at the windows kept the flies at bay. It must have stunk to high Heaven but my goodness they grew good tomatoes! A most unusual day comes to a conclusion with tea and biscuits at Crossness included in the tour fee before heading home at 4.30pm. . Price £69.00 per person. Coach will depart Stevenage at 08.30
John Rutter Christmas Celebration Matinee: Thursday 4th December. Back by popular demand, John Rutter’s Christmas Celebration returns to the Royal Albert Hall with even more festive fun and cheer. Join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir John Rutter himself for his much-loved Christmas spectacular that will no doubt get you well and truly into the Yuletide spirit. A programme of choral and symphonic seasonal classics awaits you, as well as all your favourite sing-along carols. Featuring The Bach Choir and The King’s Singers. Don’t miss out: bring your family and friends and join us in this magical Christmas celebration!
Royal Albert Hall Arena tickets row 16 £65.00 per. Choir seats rows 5 & 6 £49.00 per. Coach will depart Stevenage at 12.00.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express: Thursday 11th September. Now playing in the specially designed Starlight Auditorium at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre! Audiences will be immersed inside a world of speed, song and storytelling as an incredible cast of 40 whizz around and above, performing some of musical theatre’s most beloved songs, including AC/DC, Make Up My Heart, Light at the End of the Tunnel and the iconic Starlight Express. As a child’s train set magically comes to life and the engines race to become the fastest in the world, Rusty the steam train has little hope of winning until he is inspired by the legend of the Starlight Express .Seen around the world by over 20 million people, Starlight Express is an electrifying experience for all ages. Price £65.00 per person. Coach departs Stevenage at 11.30
Queens Hotel Eastbourne Turkey Tinsel Monday 8th to Friday 12th December. A magnificent Victorian hotel prominently situated on the seafront overlooking the pier in the resort town of Eastbourne. Known as ‘the UK’s sunniest place’ this charming location is perfect for a short break to relax and re-energise. This grand building will impress, with spacious and comfortable bar and restaurant facilities. All rooms have tea/coffee making facilities, hair dryer, trouser press and Freeview TV with radio channels. Eastbourne is one of Britain’s more elegant resorts, enjoying a glorious sunny location on the south coast in the shelter of Beachy Head. It has five miles of promenade and the famous Carpet Gardens line the seafront This trip offers coach travel, 4 nights half board accommodation with entertainment (no coach excursions). Price £249.00 per person (sharing twin /double room) limited single rooms supplement £40.00, Cosy double for single use £60.00, sea view supplement £28.00 per person (No excursions are included).
