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Theme parks usually contain all different sorts of rides like rollercoaster’s and other white knuckle rides for people in their teens and young adults. They have rides like merry-go-rounds and ferris wheels for small younger children and families. Alton Towers has all kind of these rides for everyone and it is situated in the heart of England so people from all over can easily access it.
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Entertainments (theatres, concert halls): Things like theatres, night clubs, concert halls, arenas etc all provide entertainment for visitors to see things. Places like the Sheffield Arena hold huge events like motor shows, biking expeditions, concerts etc. Places like Blackpool, Scarborough and other popular holiday resorts along the sea have many hundreds of clubs, concert halls etc to keep visitors entertained so they come back the next year to spend more of their money.
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Museums: A museum helps people understand the world by using objects and ideas to interpret the past and present and explore the future. A museum preserves and researches collections, and makes objects and information accessible in actual and virtual environments. Museums are established in the public interest as permanent, not-for-profit organisations that contribute long-term value to communities. The National History Museum in London shows people what the country used to be like and what stages Britain has gone through over the thousands of years people have lived here.
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Industrial Heritage Sites: Places of industrial heritage are very important in British history as it attracts thousands of visitors each year. They are places that show an evolution in industry such as Ironbridge, Shropshire. In Ironbridge the first ever bridge was made out of Iron hence the name Ironbridge. It was very handy in Ironbridge for the revolution to take place as all the things they needed to make such a bridge were right there; limestone, iron ore and coal.
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Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
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National Parks: There are 12 National Parks, not all of them are shown on the map below. The two others are the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path and the Northumberland National Park. National Parks are areas protected from building huge housing estates on etc.
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National Parks are an area of a country that is protected by the government because of its natural beauty. Most national parks are places that have many beautiful landscapes and interesting wildlife.
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Covering 880 square miles, the Lake District National Park is the largest, most spectacular and most visited of Britain's National Parks. It has hundreds of lakes and many thousands of walks around them and the surrounding mountains that tower majestically above them.
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Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: The Shropshire hills are an example of an area of outstanding natural beauty. They are also known as the secret hills. The Long Mynd is a very beautiful place with heather on top, many little hollows and small valleys with streams running down. There are hundreds of unspoilt places like this around the UK and The Long Mynd is possible the most beautiful and outstanding area because of its reputation as many tourists visit it and come back every year or every couple of months to walk all over the brilliant scenic footpaths around the hills.
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Beaches: There are many beaches across the UK’s brilliant coastline. There are many different types of beaches; some have huge sand dunes like at Aberdovey, huge wet sad straights like Morecambe, popular family beaches with a lot of room on like Bridlington and surfing and water sports beaches like Whitesand bay. They are very popular tourist attraction as you can do so many things there, kite flying, dune jumping, water sports, games of football, cricket, baseball etc. Beaches of Britain are very important as they bring many tourists to the UK.
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Forests: Forests offer tourists unique and outstanding wildlife walks through trees that are thousands of years old. There are many forests in Britain the town most famous and oldest forests are Sherwood Forest (Nottinghamshire) and The New Forest (Hampshire). The forests have many hidden glades and thousands of acres of unspoilt beauty. If you are lucky you may catch the occasional glimpse of some huge birds like falcons or Sparrow hawks or maybe even sometimes some wild deer.
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Lakes: large area of water surrounded by land and not connected to the sea except by rivers or streams. They provide a place for visitors to relax and sunbath in quiet places. You can also go waterskiing, windsurfing, kayaking etc on some lakes; also swimming is prohibited in some lakes so visitors can cool off in the hot summer.
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Mountains: Mountains are huge vast areas of outstanding natural beauty. People mainly come here for the brilliant walks and fresh air. There are thousands of walks in hundreds of different mountains in the UK. The most popular area probably being Snowdonia in the UK because of its famous peaks and great weather for most of the year round. Also on Snowdon there is a train for the not so keen climbers to take them most of the way up the summit.
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Wildlife Reserves: These reserves are set up to protect wildlife such as birds and endangered species. The RSPB for example have many different reserves all around the UK to protect endangered and injured birds and keep them safe from the dangerous activities of people. The sanctuaries are huge spaces where no buildings or roads are. There are viewing huts so people can look out across lakes and fields to see all the different birds. A popular reserve is Conwy in Wales.
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Accommodation and Catering
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Hotels: Hotels are places where people can stay overnight if they are either travelling or they can stay for longer periods of time if they are on holiday or on a business trip in the area. Bed(s) are provided for however many people you want to stay for the amount of period you want. Usually 2 meals at least in the morning and evening are provided and sometimes lunch is provided as well.
Private hotels are owned by the landlord and they are sometimes run by him/her and there families. They will obviously employ a lot of staff once the hotel starts becoming bigger and more known to the public. An example of a privately owned hotel is The Lord Hill in Shrewsbury.
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The Lord Hill is ideally situated on the outskirts of Shrewsbury just a 15 minute walk from the picturesque town centre and within easy reach of the entire major road links.
The Rowly's Club Bar is the ideal setting to relax and unwind! Serving hot & cold brasserie style food and a wide selection of beverages. The Lord Hill is renowned for its fine cuisine and offers an extensive a la carte menu together with a tempting 5 course table d'hote.
The Lord Hill caters for all conference and banqueting requirements from 2 - 250. Special menus are also available on request.
The Hotel has 36 individually styled bedrooms, ten of which are situated in the main hotel. All rooms have en-suite facilities and offer guests every comfort. In each room you will find: Remote Control TV, Direct Dial Telephone, Hairdryer, Tea and Coffee making facilities.
Chain Hotels are a lot bigger than private hotels usually. There a number of big chain hotels in the UK. Places like The Hilton offer an extensive range of hotels all across the country. The Hilton hotels are often found by airports for overnight stays for people who have a very early flight so they can just get up and go; instead of driving all the way down in the middle of the night to catch the plane.
Hilton Hotel Cardiff, Kingsway, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, CF10 3HH, United Kingdom.
This luxurious, modern 5 star hotel is located in the city centre, overlooking Cardiff Castle and City Hall, next to the Bank of Wales - Hilton Cardiff is just a two minute walk to Queen Street, Cardiff's main shopping and business centre with over 600 shops.
Fine cuisine is enjoyed at the Razzi Bar and Restaurant, where the menu offers contemporary international dishes.
The hotel offers 197 well-appointed, comfortable rooms, each one equipped to the highest standards.
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Lodges and Inns: Travelodge’s are places for travelling people to stay overnight when they get tired of driving. Hence the name ‘Travelodge’. It is relatively cheap as people generally only stay over for one night. The Travelodge’s themselves are usually 2 stars as they provide a comfy service for people and then they can be on their way. An example of a Travelodge is the one at the Dobbie’s Roundabout in Shrewsbury.
What Travelodge’s provide:
- Spacious and comfortable en-suite rooms.
- Luxury Hypnos beds Family rooms accommodating up to a family of four (2 adults, 2 children both under 16 years old).
- Tea & coffee making facilities.
- A colour TV.
- Free car parking.
- Friendly restaurants - a Little Chef, Burger King or Harry Ramsden's to choose from. Or, if you're staying in one of our city centre locations try our very own Bar Café.
- Bring your dog for only £10 more.
- No check-out: it's all done when you arrive.
An Inn is a house open to the public for lodging and entertainment of travellers. Because of this origin from the ancient times of horse and coach travel - when travelling from Edinburgh to London would take over a week - the image of tired, cold and weary travellers arriving at a rural Inn still has a romantic appeal today. Inns are usually located out in the countryside or in the rural areas on the very outskirts of a town. The Inn on the Green in Radbrook, Shrewsbury is a perfect example of an Inn. It has a couple of guest rooms and there is entertainment for tired travellers on there way through Shrewsbury if they don’t want to stay at a hotel or Travelodge.
Pubs: A pub is a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to people over 18. The atmosphere is usually a relaxed one after work or before a night out on a Friday or Saturday night. Pubs serve all different kinds of beer, wine and spirits. Beer served in pubs consist of many types; ales, lager, bitter, cider etc. They also usually sell plenty of different liquors like vodka, rum, whisky, scotch etc. Pubs sell all kind of wines as well whether it is sweet, dry, red or white. All in kinds of flavours. E.g. A good pub in Shrewsbury that serves brilliant beer is The Albert. It is a Banks’s pub. There is a choice of three real ales, one cider tap, four lager taps which are kept nice and chilled. There is a jukebox, pool table, darts board, lounge room, two fruit machines and a TV in the bar room.
Guesthouses: A guesthouse is just like a bed and breakfast with about three or four rooms for people to stay overnight in and obviously being served breakfast. They are usually small accommodation with comfy surroundings. Often found in the countryside for travelling people with nowhere to stay. There are many people who own bed and breakfasts and many people who own guesthouses, mostly are older people who have settled down with a career behind them so they can set up a small business to keep bringing in money. There are a few bed guesthouses around Shrewsbury like the one called Anton’s guesthouse. It is an old Victorian guesthouse which is a short walk away from the town centre and there are many pubs and restaurants nearby it.
Self Catering Accommodation
Cottages: A holiday cottage is a small usually one storey house with old comfy surroundings and traditionally has an open log fire and a thatched roof. Cottages are usually found in the countryside and not in big cities. These are small retreats for romantic holidays or for small families to enjoy a brilliant weekend or maybe a whole week away from the busy hustle and bustle of every day normal life.
Apartments and Studios: Places like these are very modernised and very trendy for young people like clubbers to stay. They are relatively expensive and are very much wanted for people with taste and class. Sometimes people hire places like this for parties and meetings. They are usually found in big towns and cities. They have also got modernised gadgets and things of help for the disabled so they can stay there if they want to get around the city of they don’t live there.
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Chalets: Traditionally a Swiss styled house with a sloping roof with wide eaves and balconies from most rooms. There aren’t many chalets around in the UK, only places like centre parc’s have a lot of chalet’s in. In places in Scotland in the winter if there is snow then people that go skiing will maybe live in a chalet for a week. In France, Italy or Austria when I go skiing with my Uncle’s company I always stay in a chalet. There is usually 2 chalet staff that make breakfast and a 3 course meal for dinner. It has a sauna, Jacuzzi and a fitness room. They usually supply sky TV to most chalets.
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Boats: Some boats are huge cruise liners with everything you could imagine on that take people on round the world cruises stopping at all the major tourist ports. Other boats like yachts are used to travel around the UK. These holidays are for serious yachters because they actually have to work to make sure there yacht is sailing in the right direction and at the right speed. Another type of boat is the barge, they travel along man-made canals at very slow speed for people who just want to relax and travel through some beautiful countryside and over reservoirs and aqueducts. They are long and thin and have usually four beds a kitchen area and a thin toilet/shower room.
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Camping: Camping holidays are popular for families with young children or for enthusiastic climbers and hikers. Camping holidays are two kinds. One type of holiday is where you can pitch your tent in a camping filed or a caravan field or a holiday park and just sleep in a tent but have all the luxuries of a bar, toilets, showers, even a swimming pool and sauna etc.
Another type of camping holiday is a camping and hiking holiday for people who enjoy the great outdoors. People walk around places like the Lake District or the peak district. They camp in designated places that are along a typical hikers walk. Park rangers go around all of the national parks to make sure no one is disobeying the rules by camping in spots where they’re not allowed to.
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Caravans: Caravan holidays are still popular with people in the UK. There are two main types of caravans. There are touring caravans that people own and pull along behind there car so they can take it anywhere. These are popular for a small family or just a couple to own because they are generally quite small and only have one bedroom or a fold out double bed.
Static caravans are a lot bigger and are made for bigger families. They have bigger living conditions and are a lot more comfy and spacious. Usually with a small dining/lounge area with TV. A double bed in a separate room off the lounge, and another bedroom with two separate single beds. Also a bathroom.
A caravan park that is popular in the west midlands is oxon caravan park.
The site which caters for caravans, motor homes and campers offers the following on-site facilities:
- Luxury reception and toilet facilities - fully centrally heated
- 65 all-weather super pitches with water, electricity and satellite TV Electric hook-up to every pitch
- Adult only section
- Three pubs/licensed restaurants within easy walking distance
- Shop selling both food and caravan accessories
- Well lit tarmac surfaced roads
- Adjacent Park & Ride facility
- Full facilities for the disabled
- Baby changing facilities
- Children's play area
- Fully equipped laundry
- Conservatory to relax in
- Full site security with electrically operated barriers
- Motor van dump station
- Dogs welcome (maximum 2 per pitch)
- Special 30' x 40' pitches suitable for RV's
Youth Hostels: Youth Hostels are places of rest for travellers who aren’t looking for a really comfortable expensive night. They just want to stay a short while and then leave on to further places. The youth hostel provide a quiet place of rest most usually in the countryside or near a small town for hikers or people travelling on a biking holiday. They provide breakfast but you have to find your own place to eat for lunch and tea. Youth hostels like the one at Ironbridge are very cheap they charge as little as £13.60 for adults and £9.30 for children.
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