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Boon’s Calibre Travel 2025 Charming Cheshire & Glorious North Wales Thursday 2nd October 2025 for 5 days, half-board
This feature-packed five-day tour explores glorious North Wales and charming Cheshire. Our three excursions encompass a wide variety of attractions, and include the award-winning Hat Works Museum, Lewis Caroll’s childhood home of Daresbury, the Anderton Boat Lift Visitor Centre, the ancient city of Chester with an included sightseeing boat trip, “Pride and Prejudice” Lyme Park and a tour through stunning North Wales, with visits to Victorian Llandudno and magical Betws-y-Coed. In addition, we visit the tranquil National Memorial Arboretum and tour the beautiful Peak District National Park on our outward & return journeys.
A warm welcome awaits at the 4* Park Royal, a fantastic hotel which blends a beautiful mix of modern facilities with elegant grandeur; part of the hotel having been built in 1831 as a vicarage to the nearby St Matthew's Church. All beautifully designed bedrooms are contemporary, well furnished and attractively co-ordinated. There are some bedrooms on the ground floor and the remainder are accessed via a lift. Meals are taken in the stylish restaurant, Topiary in the Park, and there is a leisure centre with indoor swimming pool.
Day 1: On leaving our local boarding points, we make our way north, stopping en-route at the National Memorial Arboretum, an evolving, maturing woodland landscape featuring 30,000 trees and a vast collection of memorials. A place of tranquillity and reflection, the 150-acre site is a living, growing tribute to those who have served and continue to serve our country. There is a restaurant & shop in the visitor centre and, for those less able; a land train is available to explore the site. After lunch, we continue on to our hotel, arriving in good time for dinner.
Day 2: This morning we visit ancient Chester, a city of timeless beauty, famous for its almost complete Roman walls, black & white Tudor buildings, a magnificent cathedral and the unique “Rows”, galleries which run above the shops. On arrival, we take a 30 minute sightseeing boat trip and then there will be time to explore and take lunch. This afternoon, we make our way to the village of Daresbury, birthplace and childhood home of Lewis Carroll. Carroll’s life and work is celebrated at the Lewis Carroll Visitor Centre and Museum, and in All Saints Church where an “Alice in Wonderland” stained glass window has been erected in his memory. We enjoy a talk with tea & biscuits, before returning to our hotel.
Day 3: Today we head across country to the newly renovated, award-winning Hat Works, the UK's only museum dedicated to the hatting industry, hats and headwear. Here we learn how hatting rose from humble beginnings, as a cottage industry, to its height in the early 19th century. The museum is home to a recreated hat factory and a fantastic collection of over 400 hats from around the world. This afternoon, we visit Lyme Park, with its glorious views across the Cheshire Plain. The lavish interiors of the house reflect the life of a great estate, focussing on its fascinating history during the regency period. In more recent times, Lyme has featured as ‘Pemberley’ in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth. The gardens, with the Reflection Lake, Orangery and Rose Garden, are a wonderful place to relax and stroll (admission extra, NT members free)
Day 4: Todays circular tour takes us across the border into glorious North Wales, where we travel via the historic market town of Ruthin, set in one of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain, and on through Denbigh, which overlooks the breath-taking Vale of Clwyd, with its historic skyline dominated by the dramatic remains of its 13th century castle. Continuing on, we reach the Snowdonia National Park, where we visit the popular tourist village of Betws-y-Coed in its magical setting with a distinctly Alpine feel. Time to visit the shops and cafes before we travel along the Vale of Conwy to the Victorian resort of Llandudno, a beautiful seaside town with a promenade, pier, superb beaches, elegant hotels, interesting shops, and panoramic views from the Great Orme, at the summit of its striking headland. On leaving Llandudno we return to our hotel for dinner.
Day 5: After breakfast this morning, we bid farewell to the Park Royal Hotel and make our way homeward. Before leaving the area, we visit the Anderton Boat Lift Visitor and Exhibition Centre, from where we can view the famous *boat lift, described as “one of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways”, which sits on the banks of the river like a giant, 3-story, iron spider. Our journey continues via the beautiful scenery of the Peak District National Park and we arrive back in Essex early evening. *Refurbishment of the Anderton Boat Lift is planned for October 2024, therefore we were unable to book a boat trip.
Includes: 4 nights half-board (dinner, bed & breakfast) in en-suite bedrooms, 3 excursions, visits on outward & return journeys, porterage, lift, ground floor rooms, leisure centre with indoor pool. Fare for Chester boat trip. Entry to Hat Works Museum. Talk & refreshments at Lewis Caroll Visitor Centre
Price per person sharing a Double or Twin Room: £649, Supplement for Single Occupancy of a Double/Twin Room: £88 (10 only)
Deposit: £65 per person, balance due 8 weeks prior to travel |