Advantages: Great ambience, fantastic service, good food. Disadvantages: We couldn't stay longer!
INTRODUCTION
My wife and I were looking to do something special for our fifth wedding anniversary and decided that we fancied a dinner and room package somewhere fairly close to home. We had never left our toddler daughter overnight before, so we needed somewhere within short driving distance from the in-laws, just in case there were any problems whilst baby-sitting. A few months before, a friend of ours had recommended the Woodland Park Hotel, near the village of Stoke D?Abernon. It is one of the many properties in the Handpicked Hotels chain, so I looked up their web-site and signed up to their e-mail service, which sends general news and offers on all of the hotels in the chain, about two or three times a month. Fortunately, a timely offer popped into my inbox, and at £149 for two people, in a superior room, including a three ...
Advantages: nicely decorated, excellent high quality food, good service Disadvantages: expensive drinks, expensive rooms
I like the village where I live ? it takes about ten minutes to drive into Leeds, and about five minutes in the opposite direction to get to the motorway. Gildersome itself is very green, and quiet, yet still manages to have lots of different takeaway places and local shops.
Recently, Gildersome has even acquired its own high class hotel and restaurant, Woodlands. Most people round here remember when it was a nursing home, but hopefully the sumptuous décor and fantastic food will soon make them all forget its past.
I haven?t spent a night at Woodlands, because I live less than a mile away, but I have seen the rooms, and researched the prices. Consequently the hotel section of this review is not as long as the restaurant part, and for this I apologise in advance.
Location
Woodlands is situated on the A62, which links ...
Advantages: Loads to do indoor & out, all free once inside Disadvantages: kids never want to leave
love this place.
Should have put this info on before:
The park address Woodlands Leisure Park, Dartmouth, Devon TQ9 7DQ. tel:01803 712 598 www.woodlandspark.com
Brilliant park, well worth a vist, the children will love it & so will you ...
