Book early to get your choice of lodge and holiday date. After listening to customer feedback, electricity is now included within the overall hire charge for all holidays starting after 1st January 2010.
Darwin Forest is proud to have won the coveted Gold David Bellamy award for the environment - for the 12th successive year. Blooming marvellous!!
Exciting news from Darwin Forest Country Park is the fact that a marvellous new children’s Play Centre is being built for opening in early 2010. Construction work has begun, but we can assure you that everything possible is being done to ensure the minimum possible impact on holidays. The site of the Play Centre is where the Staff Car Park was, behind Reception, which means that it is in a place that has never been accessible to guests. All the rest of the park remains available for you to enjoy. Once complete, the new indoor Play Centre will provide a superb all weather venue for our younger guests. In the meantime, we thank guests for their patience during these works.
Welcome to the new website for Pinelodge Holidays. We hope that you will find it attractive, informative and easy to use. The tourist information part should help give you lots of ideas for things to do in the area. We also have a new way of enquiring about availability, to check that your preferred lodge is available before you make a booking. Please do let us have any feedback, good or bad, so that we can try to refine areas which you might have difficulty with.
During early summer residents of some of the prettiest villages in Derbyshire open up their gardens to visitors . Bonsall, Birchover, Parwich, Great Longstone, Fenny Bentley and Winster are amongst those villages hosting open garden days. Many gardens are open in each village, with the opportunity to see some great planting in delightful settings. Refreshments and sometimes live music are laid on too. It’s even a nice chance for a chat with some of the friendly locals! These days make for a great outing - for just a few pounds. A quick search on Google will give you the appropriate dates.
All the televisions at Sandybrook Country Park have now been upgraded to flatscreen models and to improve channel coverage and picture quality, Freeview channels have been introduced.
As a further guest service we have now installed wi-fi coverage at both Darwin Forest and Sandybrook Country Parks. You may now bring and use your laptop or netbook with you on holiday and be able to access the internet and email at the hot-spots which are around both reception buildings and Evolution Health & Fitness. The best bit is that we are providing this as a free service!
Most of the country seems to have seen quite a bit snow during this week and Darwin Forest is no exception. Earlier this week we took the opportunity to get out and about with a camera. The roads are now clear, but there is still quite a bit of snow cover around - enough to make a lovely big snowman!
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (on February 12th), Darwin Forest Country Park is launching a new club for nature detectives Membership includes a Starter Pack with everything needed to get the outdoor learning experience underway. This includes Charles Darwin themed activity cards which cover: how to be an explorer and learn more about flora and fauna; how to spot tracks and work out what creatures are around; how to recognise different types of tree and how to identify and draw birds. Others will be added over time. Items such as bug jars, pond dipping nets, bird books and small microscopes will also be made available in the Woodland Store to help children develop their understanding of the great outdoors.
The trees are decorated, the lights are up, the bar is stocked and the lodges are ready to receive our Christmas and New Year guests. We can’t wait to welcome you to a festive Derbyshire! If you can’t make it here for this special holiday period, we look forward to welcoming you later in 2009. In the meantime Merry Christmas from all of us!
