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For information about accommodation for our team builds in the Austrian Alps please click here...


Peak Activities' event's participants can choose 
from a wide variety of local accommodation options 
.... from tents and hostels to 5 Star Luxury Hotels...



Above - a party of cyclists passing one of the charming B&B Farmhouses we recommend 
to our guests. It is situated on a popular national cycling route was used by the 
"Tour of Britain" Cycle Race" when it passed through Hathersage.



| Luxury Hotels  | Conference Centres | Inns  & Pubs | Camping Barns  | Camping Sites |
   
| NEW : Tents Hire Facility  |  Bed & Breakfasting in Guest Houses & Farmhouses | Hostels   |



Whether you're an individual client booked onto 
one of of our popular walking, climbing, or caving 
weekends - or a group of people booked in to enjoy
some of the other activities offered by Peak Activities,  
we're committed to helping you choose from a wide 
variety of tried and proven accommodation options 
on offer to all our customers.  The choice is yours !




WE CAN OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS THE FOLLOWING ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS

Local Camping Sites ( Tents & Caravans )
Camping Barns
Adjacent & nearby Youth Hostels
Private local hostels

B&B Guest Houses & Farmhouse Accommodation.
Friendly local inns and pubs.

3 , 4 and 5 Star Hotels in and around the village.
Exclusive Luxury Hotels and Conference Centres.




IN & AROUND HATHERSAGE IN THE PEAK DISTRICT THERE'S 
A WIDE RANGE OF DIFFERENT ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS 
FOR PARTICIPANTS WHO'VE BOOKED ONTO OUR EVENTS... 


 
You can choose from catered venues with hearty meals designed for 
outdoor appetites and using local ingredients...or opt for lower cost 
self catering accommodation locally...


Accommodation for people booking sports & training 
events in the Peak Park with Peak Activities Ltd.


The Choice is all yours ! 



All Peak Activities' customers can choose from a wide 
range of local accommodation options. With over twenty 
five years experience organising weekend breaks, holidays 
and corporate training & team building for our individual 
customers and parties of clients big and small,  Peak 
Activities Ltd  have a sound set of links with  tried and 
trusted local  suppliers. We can therefore offer our 
corporate activities & training clients and our individual 
customers almost every imaginable kind of suitable 
accommodation available in and around our centre in the 
fabulous Hope Valley in the Peak District National Park .

Having been based in Hathersage for over 20 years, 
some of our suppliers are local family and close friends,
so you'll be made to feel very welcome and well looked
after.  Our suppliers at our base in the Tyrolean Alps are
good friends too - and the same applies over there too !


| Luxury Hotels  | Conference Centres | Inns  & Pubs | Camping Barns  | Camping Sites |
   
| NEW : Tents Hire Facility  |  Bed & Breakfasting in Guest Houses & Farmhouses | Hostels   |

 

Arranged in order of price the accommodation 
options in the Peak Park available to Peak Activities' 
clients who use our instruction services  include : -
 

Five and Four Star Hotel Accommodation.

Perfect for training parties and all sorts of team building events.
Click here to see the level of luxury we can offer groups and individuals
who want to pamper themselves with fine meals, late night bars,
swimming pools, steam rooms and saunas etc.

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.

 

 

 

Three Star Hotel Accommodation.

Great for all sorts of groups using our services and for individuals
and couples too. There are some nice small inns and hotels in and
around the Hope Valley and surrounding area. We have a list of
local accommodation venues which we send out to everyone as
soon as their bookings are confirmed.

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.

 

Conference Centres.

Designed for serious training & ideal for staff development events.
Usually we give out lots of information about local centres at
planning meetings with bone fide group organisers who come
to our base Rock Lea to meet with us and plan their events with us.
Usually we only book conference centres for clients who have
walked around them with us to check out the most likely centres
to suit their events.

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.

 

Fully Serviced & Self Catering at Youth Hostels.

Some of our local hostels are popular with clients on tight budgets.
NOT suitable for boisterous or noisy stag parties or hen groups !
There are different styles and sizes of youth hostels at Ravenstor,
Castleton, Eyam, Bretton and one in Hathersage...plus a number of
private hostels which we have on our database.

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.

 

 

Self catering centres & private fully serviced hostels.

Groups can sometimes arrange to stay with friends of ours who 
have their own private hostel. Needs to be booked well in advance.

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.

 

B&B in local Inns, Guest Houses & Farmhouses

Excellent value and very comfortable but not suitable for big parties.
We have loads of B&B's in and around Hathersage and these can
often be bookd at quite short notice by individuals and couples.

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.



We send out our preferred suppliers accommodation 
list to everyone who books instruction or training with 
us.  We will send this information out when we send off 
booking confirmations, joining instructions, maps, etc.

 

 

Self catering cottages.

Excellent value for people stayimg for, say, at week at a time.
Only a few cottages may be available for weekend lets at busy times
at short notice - so advanced booking is always highly recommended.
Try using an agency such as Peak Cottages for late bookings.

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.

 

Self catering in Camping Barns.

Camping Barns are "stone tents" which provide
spartan, cheap and cheerful acoomodation but are
hardly luxurious ! There are several good camping
barns in and around Hathersage. Some places
advertised in the Peak Park are much cleaner
and better equippped than others.



You'll need a sleeping bag to stay in most camping barns.

Top tip - arrange a recce trip and look around barns
before booking them. Some are very different from
others and the facilities offered by some are much
better than others. We will do our best to suggest
the best barns for our customers.

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.

 

Hiring camping equipment to camp on local campsites...

Peak Activities Ltd's Course participants can now enjoy the
experience of camping out under the stars and keep their 
costs right down by hiring mountin dome tents & sleeping 
bags from our centre's stores.




We now can offer clients who book our instruction services : -


* New, Stable, Weather Proof Hire Tents - both large or small tents...
* Sleeping Bags - Choice of either 2 season or 4 season bags...
* Insulating Sleeping Mats...
* Sleeping Bag Liners ( the use of these is compulsory in our bags)...
* Cooking Sets - for brewing up tea, cooking porridge etc...



  

 

Hire fee for hire of a top quality mountain dome tent,

a sleeping bag, inner liner & a roll of foam sleeping

mat starts from just £20 / night / person / night for parties

staying for several nights. It is more expensive per

night if you only want to stay for one or two nights,

reflecting the extra work involved in pitching and

cleaning up tents and so on after the kit has been

used for, say, jsut one night.

 

 

There are numerous quiet sites in & around Hathersage.

Camping site fees vary from site to site but are usually

c. £4 to £5 per adult per night and about £1 per car.

 

 

Sleeping out under the stars may be just what you want

to help your group spend some relaxing quality time together.

In terms of costs it compares very favourably to spending

over £150 / night for a top class hotel bed - but you'll need

to sort out your own breakfast ! Why not pop down for

breakfast at one of the many cafes in the village which

are open early every day ...or maybe why not hire some

group cooking gear from us and cook up your porridge

and make your team's breakfast just outside your tents ?

 

 

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When hiring our kit which is new or almost brand new, a returnable

damage deposit may be charged against your credit card to cover

the cost of any kit losses, damage or cleaning bills. Because it can

take a whole day for us to check, clean and dry out tents and other

gear that might have been packed up muddy or wet, we charge more

per person per night for single nights stays than for longer hires.

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Rock Lea's staff can also arrange to rent or to sell at trade prices 
more specialist camping equipment to larger groups - including
big propane heaters, large frame tents, camping chairs,  a fully 
equipped caravan, a gas barbecue, event control room and a 
variety of group shelters & marquees.

 

 

Click on heading above for more information about this type of accommodation.

 

 

LOCAL CAMPING SITES

 

Close to our base, Rock Lea, there are a number of

great local camping sites ( public sites and private

camping locations ) for groups big or small.

 

Most of these camp sites have hot showers and good

WC toilets & washing facilities. We have enough tents

and kit for groups large or small.

 

Please note the camping out option is not suitable for

boisterous groups - since local camping site managers

will ask your whole party to leave unceremoniously

if any member makes problems for other campers

on the same site. Making a lot of noise is enough for

groups to be asked to leave without any further ado,

so forget camping if your party members are not

going to behave themselves !

 

( We're not joking about this by the way ! )

 

 

 

 

Call us on 01433-650345 for more information.

 

 

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION

 

Q: Do you help people find accommodation who are not your instruction clients ?

 

A : Sorry, no ! Apart from the information on this page we do not supply

accommodation information to people who are not booking our tuition services.

Please don't waste your time calling us to ask for information

about accommodation if you're not one of Peak Activities'

customers booking instruction or training with us. We regret

we haven't got the staff or time to help general enquiries from

the public or agents. Click here instead for details of local TIC's

who may help you.

 

We regret we cannot offer our booking service to the general

public or booking agencies. Our accommodation service is

solely for our bone fide paying customers who have booked

outdoor activities or training sessions with our centre's

instruction team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION

 

Q: Do you use accommodation that has been tried and tested ?

 

A : YES. We have been here for over 25 years so you can expect us to give you

very accurate and carefully considered information about reliable places to stay.

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Peak Activities Ltd only recommend accommodation options

to our customers that have been very thoroughly tried and proven

by many of our previous customers.

 

Most importantly, as well as knowing where is good to stay locally,

we also know which places might best be avoided ! Click here to

see an amusing poem written by one of our police clients about a

place not very far away ( not named ) where they stayed against

our advice !

 

Top Tip : Don't leave trying to book group accommodation until

the last minute. You'd be surprised how quickly the very best

accommodation can be booked up each year here in the Hope Valley.

 

 

 

 

Peak Activities Ltd can help arrange all sorts of local 
accommodation & meals for our individual clients and 
group customers booking the services of our tutors...


 * We regret  Peak Activities staff cannot help arrange or suggest accommodation

for people who are NOT purchasing our instruction facilities or training services.

Please don't waste your time asking for information about local accommodation

if you are not buying instruction from us.

 

 

 

 

Readers wanting local accommodation but who are not

buying our training or activities products should please

click here to go to our free local accommodation search

engine...or click here to go to the bottom of this page or try

our links page which lists numerous tourist information centres

which will help you find local accommodation during normal

office hours.

 

 

 

Local tourist information centres can provide 
accommodation information for local villages 
& towns such as Ashford, Ashover, Bakewell, 
Bamford, Baslow, Bradwell, Buxton, Calver, 
Castleton, Edale, Eyam, Hope, Grindleford, 
Froggatt, Tideswell and many others.

 

 

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Peak Activities Ltd's customers bring along groups big and small.
Some groups need lots of conference rooms and single bedrooms
...others just want a simple cottage to crash out in for the weekend.

All the year round we're pleased to help our clients arrange all sorts of 
different kinds of group accommodation for our customers and their 
guests. We know that a big part of the total success of your residential 
activity package with us hinges on us helping provide good hospitality,
good food & comfortable accommodation at prices that will best fit your 
available budget !  

Top tip :  If you are wanting activities for just one day we would always
recommend you book your accommodation for the night after your day 
out with us rather than the day before. It makes for a much more relaxing
event without the need to rush off at the end of the day when you're 
mellow or tired !



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We specialise in combining indoor and outdoor activities for our corporate clients.
We know that getting the accommodation and food and conference facilities right 
and choosing the right location is an important part of the arranging of a successful 
and worthwhile corporate event.

 

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Four Star Hotel Accommodation for our events organisers...

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We have a number of tried and proven four star hotels which
we can make available for our corporate training and team
building customers. Because we do so much business with
them, many of our close associates now offer attractive exclusive 
deals for Peak Activities Ltd's customers who book direct
through us rather than through their embedded company
travel agencies. Click the photos above for more details of the 
above example of a very popular level of local four star hotel and
conference accommodation close to our centre in Hathersage.



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Suitable for groups of 6 to 160. Inspections of such venues
are often arranged when clients come to see us for planning
workshops to plan their events with us. Please phone us on 
01433-650345 or 07771-855105 for more details of our planning 
workshops.


Typical price for a party of 10+ will be from c. £69 to £129 per 
person for single room occupancy of  very luxurious twin or 
double en suite rooms (Dinner , Bed & Breakfast rate quoted).
Currently 24 hour delegate rates for training delegates are
c. £100 to £130 per delegate/24 hours (inclusive of single bedrooms, 
all meals, conference room hire, breakout room hire, etc.

Twin en-suite rooms are often available in many of the hotels we 
use for our corporate guests - and these naturally tend to be a lot 
less expensive.

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There are several very comfortable and pleasant three-star hotels
and historic coaching inns which we recommend in and around the
scenic Hope Valley.  These are extremely popular with our training 
and team building customers bringing along small and medium sized 
parties for team events.

 
One of the numerous excellent local coaching inns we can offer our individual & group customers.

Because we do so much business with some of these venues each year 
we can often negotiate very competitive group rates for our corporate 
clients who are booking tuition and instruction packages direct from 
us too.   If you book through a company embedded travel agency 
the fee will often be higher than the rate we quote for direct bookings.
   
Some of these hotel venues offer our guests excellent conference 
and private banqueting facilities, good en-suite bedrooms and good
facilities for customers with special needs, including as wheelchair
users. Some have added extras on offer such as swimming pools, 
steam rooms and well equipped gymnasiums too.

Combined with our our wide range of sports and training activities
these facilities mean we can run a huge range of high quality team 
events...from simple "jollies" to sophisticated training & development
and staff training programmes.

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See our "deals" page or call us on 01433-650345 for details of some great late bookings offers for groups.

More information about accommodation for training groups using our services.

 

Eating out informally can be surprisingly inexpensive if
you opt for low cost bar meals in some of our local inns.
The food is basic but there's load s of choices and  the 
portions are great for hungry outdoor appetites.

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Conference & Training Centres

 

There are lots of conference centres which our corporate events clients
can choose from when they book their events with us in the Peak District, 
based in nearby villages such as Castleton and Hope.  We have a few 
carefully chosen venues right on the doorstep which offer outstandingly 
good value for money and excellent facilities, including classrooms, 
spacious syndicate rooms, lecture theatres, superb single en-suite 
bedrooms and great food. 

Click here for more information about local venues we use for training parties.

We regret that we can only help people who are booking activities with our 
company.


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Typical charge for a party of 10+ to 50 of our clients are around £100 
to £155 per delegate per 24 hours fully inclusive of all you require
including teaching room areas, meals and so on.  Prices fluctuate
through the year in line with demand and vary from site to site,
so ask us for a quote for any specific date you require.

 

 

Some of the local Youth Hostels are worth consideration as a base
if you're on a really tight budget... or if you fancy a really informal 
and out of-the-ordinary event to help your team chill out together.
However there are rules to follow and you mustn't expect a five
star full service hotel level of luxury for just £25 per night or so !

 

 

Above is one of the very friendly family run local youth hostels we endorse

for groups of say 30 to 50 people with tight budgets. Our minibuses can

collect you from here and you can be enjoying activities and training with

us within just 10 minutes transfer time. There are several pleasant hostels

within a short drive of our base in Hathersage. We can arrange for the hostels

to open up outside of normal hours for inspections when we are running

pre-event planning workshops.

 

If you're looking for a really low cost venue for your group
event with us, the good news is that not  all local youth 
hostels are the same.  Whilst some in the National Park are 
very busy places bustling with youngsters, there are some 
quieter local hostels which we recommend which can be 
rented by parties of, say 30 to 50 people in their entirety.

 

 

Maybe staying in a hostel isn't going to be what exactly what
you want !  No worries ! There's lots of other types of places
you can stay...from stately homes converted into apartments
to four star hotels and other unusual forms of accommodation.



Rock Lea - our own modest base in Hathersage
is used for non-residential meetings and as a base
for all sorts of outdoor activities and training events.



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Hostels can be a really good low cost (c. £20 to £25 per person 
per night ) venue for groups that don't mind fairly basic shared 
rooms and fairly spartan catering.  In recent months we have 
arranged exclusive occupancy of hostels in this locality for 
several of our blue chip team building clients including a 
large group from Astra Zeneca, and a party of 114 from 
Union Railways and many more. Our chaplain Rev. Roger
Garnet uses the hostel pictured above for his Men's Fellowship
Weekends.  The food is good and the price most reasonable
compared with, say, a cheaper hotel holding so many folks 
under one roof.

Other parties  who've used hostels successfully under our 
aegis have included  Bosch, Union Railways, GEC and lots
of church groups and school and college parties. 

Clearly,  however, these events need to be booked and 
firmed-up well in advance or exclusive occupation will 
simply not be possible.  The same advice applies to the 
booking of other popular low-cost venues such as the 
best local camping barns and campsites ( see below).

 

 

Camp sites and Camping Barns for groups

taking part in Peak Activities Ltd's sporting events...

 

If you're a party wanting to book our instructors services
and you want to keep down costs and bring along your 
own tents and sleeping bags we can help you arrange to
camp at one of the many local camp sites or camping barns
on our tried and trusted preferred suppliers list.  Our suppliers 
may charge as little as £6 per person per night for camping,
but don't expect a four star full service hotel for that price !
We are now able to supply our group customers with sleeping 
bags and tents and other essential items of kit for a good night's
sleep under canvas.

 

Some of the groups coming out to enjoy training programmes
and activities with Peak Activities Ltd's staff like the idea of 
sleeping under canvas out there under the stars.  If this idea 
sounds good to you and your party,  we can help our customers 
arrange suitable local campsites for groups.  Camping barns are
simple shelters with a roof that you can camp inside - usually
farmers' converted barns. They offer basic accommodation
but may be better than damp and cold tents in the winter months.
Camping barns tend to be popular and may need to be booked a 
good time ahead and we always recommend you have a good 
look first hand before deciding to book - as the quality and 
cleanliness and levels of facilities offered by some camping barns 
is better than that of others.

The low cost options of camping on a camp site or staying in a 
camping barn are options that particularly may appeal to parties 
such as well behaved Stag Groups and for young person's parties 
for whom the overall cost of accommodation may be a very 
important buying factor alongside safety and reliability. 
  



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Many of the local tents-only sites have hot showers and
are very clean and tidy. By and large really boisterous
& wild, noisy groups are not welcome on most local 
camping sites and will be moved off by most farmers 
and site managers who we know - often without a great 
deal of discussion ( ! )  to maintain the peace and quite 
of their sites for their other clients.  If you want a really 
wild time on a camp site try Scotland instead !

We can also sometimes arrange overnight camps in private
camping fields as part of hotel based courses for groups on 
management training courses. We can provide sleeping bags 
and tents and cooking gear etc. for such parties at a reasonable 
rate...prices for a tent and a sleeping bag per person cost from
£15 per night  plus a normally fully returnable damage / cleaning
deposit.   Phone us for more details on 01433-650345.




Local B&B's & Guest Houses &
 Self Catering Farm Cottages and Apartments...

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For small groups and individual customers there are over 80 different B&B's which
we can heartily endorse which are located in and around the charming unspoiled 
village of Hathersage.  These include many with en-suite bedrooms which are 
charged at around £25 to £35 per person for Bed & Full English Breakfast.   

Vegetarian and special diets can be catered for. 

We have a list of our tried and proven accredited suppliers of B&B accommodation 
which is sent out to all our registered customers when we confirm their bookings.  
We regret this list is only available to our clients who have booked instruction from 
our staff.

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Many B&B's and rooms in local guest houses and farmhouses are only really suitable 
for individuals, couples, family parties & small parties of up to 6 or so. There are few 
B&B places which have more than three or four letting bedrooms because of the local 
fire regulations.  The next step up is for a large B&B to be a small hotel. As soon 
as you start looking at local hotels you'll find there is often a big jump in the price of 
staying somewhere which can hold a lot of people under the same roof.

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Four self catering cottages overlooking Edale.  This site has an indoor swimming pool.


SELF CATERING COTTAGES 

There are lots of places our customers can rent by the week
such as self-catering cottages and appartments, which are ideal
for people wanting a low cost venue when they are using the
instructors from our centre to run their courses.

Costs vary enormously so you'll have to get a quote direct from 
the owners for each cottage etc. for each week. See the search 
engine facility we've provided below or contact one of the local
self catering cottage and holiday flats lettings agencies such as 
Peak Cottage Limited ( e-mail enquiries@peakcottages.com )

Sometimes groups using our instructional staff can arrange 
to stay in self-catering accommodation owned by 
Peak Activities Ltd and other centres owned by friends 
and associates of ours.  We can also arrange for catering 
specialists to come in and prepare meals for corporate 
groups using our services.  Call 01433-650345 for details.


However, clients should note that a lot of local 
self-catering places are busy all the weeks of the 
year, even in winter, so owners are not always willing 
to rent places for a just one night or a short weekend let. 
All male groups and all female groups are often seen as
a potential risk (once bitten twice shy ! ) so you may find
that many owners will not rent premises to male or female
- only groups....or may wish to insist on a substantial 
damage deposit before booking in stag or hen groups.

New !

 

HOLIDAY COTTAGES SEARCH ENGINE ...............

 

 

An excellent easy-to-use self catering cottages locator

system which includes Derbyshire and our surrounding

area. This search engine tool has lots of other local

information on it too. The Holiday Cottages (UK) Ltd

e-mail : info@theholidaycottages.co.uk

Another useful search engine you may care to try for finding 
other local self catering accommodation can be found at
Peak Cottages Direct.    You can also try the various local
Tourist Information Centres listed at the foot of this page.

You may also care to try the useful "Need a Break" search engine
we've listed below.   We're very sorry but we're not allowed to send 
out our accommodation information pack out to non-customers.  


THE "NEED A BREAK" WEBSITE SEARCH ENGINE BELOW IS ONE 
OF MANY LOCAL SEARCH ENGINES YOU CAN USE TO HELP FIND 
LOCAL ACCOMMODATION IN AND AROUND THE BUSY HOPE VALLEY.


  








































Just type into the space above the name of the local village or town
where you want to stay. For example, Hope, Castleton, Bamford,
Grindleford, Eyam, Calver, Froggatt, Bradwell, Tideswell, Bakewell, 
Buxton or Edale.  This engine works for places all around the UK too, 
so consider bookmarking this page for future reference !

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Clients ( i.e. people who have booked Peak Activities Ltd's services)
who need further information on the most suitable accommodation
options should call us please on 07771-855105 or 01433-650345.


We're not a tourist information service, so we regret our office staff
cannot help anyone who has not booked our instruction services.
Try the list of places at the foot of this page if you just want places to 
stay in the Peak District.

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 A salutory poem...

WE LIKE TO GET FEEDBACK ON ALL THE ACCOMMODATION
OUR CUSTOMERS USE.

 THE FOLLOWING LIMERICK WAS SUBMITTED BY A POLICE 
CONSTABLE FROM THE MET. HIS LOVELY GROUP  STAYED 
AT A PLACE WE'D  NOT RECOMMENDED - AND WHICH HE 
WON'T BE RECOMMENDING EITHER FOR SOME TIME TO COME !