Tastes & Flavours of Kent
A NEW holiday embracing wine, cheese and beer in the wonderful Kent countryside together with hearing of the smugglers who inhabited the marshes many years ago.
View Dates & BookA NEW holiday embracing wine, cheese and beer in the wnderful Kent countryside together with hearing of the smugglers who inhabited the marshes many years ago.
Look what's Included:
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5 Days, 4 night's hotel accomodation with dinner, bed & breakfast
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Free Pick-Up from Home
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Executive Coach Travel or Gold Coach Travel with Hostess service
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Hush Heath Estate and Vineyard – tour & tasting with Ploughmans Platter lunch.
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Shepherd Neame Brewery
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New Romney & Lydd
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Royal Tunbridge Wells
Sunday
We depart and make our way to Kent and arriving in the afternoon at our hotel for the next 4 nights stay with dinner, bed and breakfast.
During your stay
• Visit to Staplehurst and Hush Heath Estate and vineyards where we enjoy a guided tour and learn all aspects of grape-growing before visiting the winery where the production process of still and
sparkling wine is explained.
• Ploughmans lunch at the Goudhurst Inn before visiting Winterdale Cheese Farm for a guided tour of the dairy and cave followed by cheese tasting and cream.
• Visit to Royal Tunbridge Wells
• Historic Faversham with a guided tour of Shepherd Neame Brewery
• New Romney
– A Cinque Port since 1155 where the Great Storm of 1287 changed the course of the River Rother and made New Romney an inland town.
• Lydd, notorious for the activities of ‘owlers’ (Local smugglers hooting to each other at dead of night).
Thursday
After breakfast we depart for home.
Your Hotel
The Bridgewood Manor Hotel is located in Chatham, is renowned for its fine food and service. Hotel facilities include Squires restaurant, open plan lounge and relaxing bar. Spa facilities include gym, swimming pool and sauna. Bedrooms are all en-suite, and have TV, hairdryer, telephone and tea/coffee making facilities.
The hotel has a lift.
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Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
| Name | Address |
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| Bath | Bath Odd Down Park and Ride Coach Park |
| Bridgwater | Bridgwater Mount Street Bus Stop Rear of Angel Place Shopping centre |
| Chippenham | Chippenham The Bridge Outside Rivo Lounge or Megabet. |
| Cirencester | Cirencester Little Chef/Burger King Hare Bushes Services, A429 Burford Road, GL7 5DS |
| Clevedon | Clevedon Miles Morgan Travel Agency, Triangle Bus Stop |
| Exeter Services | Exeter Services - M5 - Pickups from here may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
| Frome | Frome Market Place |
| Gloucester | Gloucester outside the British Heart Foundation Shop, Northgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1SL |
| Gordano | Gordano M5 Services CAR PARK |
| Highbridge | Highbridge, Church Street Bus Stop Near to Church |
| Ivybridge | Ivybridge Leisure Centre Car Park - Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
| Junction 27 M5 | J27 M5 - Burger King/ Travelodge Pick ups maybe fed to Gordano Services |
| Leigh Delamere Services | Leigh Delamere - Outbound - Eastbound Side Return - Westbound Side - Coach Park |
| M5 Junction 13 | M5 Junction 13, Starbucks Formerly Little Chef |
| Melksham | Melksham Town Hall. |
| Midsomer Norton | Midsomer Norton Town Hall |
| Minehead | Minehead Railway Station |
| Newton Abbot | Newton Abbot Railway Station Lay By Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 |
| Plymouth | Plymouth Railway Station SE Bound Bus Stop Pennycomequick Hill/ Saltash Road |
| Shepton Mallet | Shepton Mallet Station Road Car Park Bus Stop near Monument |
| Somerton | Somerton The Cross - Pickups from here may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
| Street | Street Bayliss Centre |
| Stroud | Stroud Merrywalks Bus Station |
| Taunton Herons | Taunton - Hankeridge Farm Bus Stop, Herons Gate by Halfords Superstore. |
| Thornbury | Thornbury Aldi Lay-by |
| Torquay | Torquay Coach Station |
| Trowbridge | Trowbridge Town Hall |
| Wells | Wells Princes Road Car Park |
| Westbury | Westbury Haynes Road bus stop |
| Weston-super-Mare | Weston-super-Mare Locking Road Car Park |
| Yeovil | Yeovil Bus Station - Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
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