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Eco-inclined families who want to stay on
UK soil rather than increase their carbon footprint by
travelling abroad during half term can still cross the water
for a green break on a trip to the Isle of Wight with
Wightlink Green Getaways (0871 376 4342
www.wightlink.co.uk/greengetaways).
Green Getaways features 11 individual
properties – including manor houses, seaside hotels and
rural B&Bs, each holding a Gold Award for its
eco-initiatives, made annually by Green Island Tourism, the
ground-breaking Isle of Wight organisation which has
spearheaded the move to a more environmentally sensitive
tourism industry on the Island. It also profiles the Isle of
Wight Farm and Country Holiday Group, whose 40 members offer
families the experience of staying on or near a working farm
or in historic old properties that are surrounded by
farmland. Families can choose self-catering accommodation or
a hotel stay for October half term and options include:
Gotten Manor: Stay in deepest countryside
in the Cart House, one of three self-catering units created
out of old barns at this stone manor house. Located in a
sheltered hollow at the foot of St. Catherine’s Down in the
south of the island with only cows for neighbours, there are
footpaths in all directions, a woodland copse with bats,
badgers and buzzards within the grounds and the beaches of
south coast Wight are just a few miles distance. Four-night
self catering stays are available in the Cart House from
20th October priced at £434 and Wightlink four night return
car ferry crossings cost £55 – making a total of £489 for a
family of four (£122.25pp).
St. Maur: Families can take a short break
for two nights at this Victorian villa in seaside Ventnor,
set in a quiet location above the famous Zig Zag road down
to the beach, for a total of just £390 – under £100pp. The
eco-friendly break includes accommodation for two adults and
two children in a family room with return car ferry
crossings and is available between 20th and 28th October.
Sentry Mead: Enjoy a three night family
break in undiscovered West Wight at this country house hotel
by the seaside for just £581 (£145.25pp) for a family of
four (two adults and two children aged 8-13; under eight
price: £541). Close to Totland, one of the Island’s most
unspoiled beaches, the friendly family-run hotel is elegant
in style, with colourful gardens, an imaginative restaurant
menu, and a teddy bear in every bedroom! The Wightlink
package – available on dates between 20th and 28th October –
includes half board accommodation in a family room and
return car ferry crossings.
Mersley Farm: Stay on the Isle of Wight’s
famous Garlic Farm in one of the cottages created from
traditional outbuildings around Mersley Farm in the Island’s
rural heartland. Newly converted for 2007, Kiln Cottage is
an early 19th century stone barn which faces the Downs and
offers two spacious ensuite bedrooms for a family of four. A
member of Isle of Wight Farm and Country Holiday group,
three night breaks at Kiln Cottage, Mersley Farm, available
between 20th and 28th October, cost £340 and a three night
return ferry crossing for four adds £49.50 to the price –
totalling £100pp.
Copies of Green Getaways are available
free from Wightlink by calling 0871 376 4342 and can also be
downloaded from the Wightlink website –
www.wightlink.co.uk/greengetaways.
ENDS
Issued on behalf
of:
By:
WIGHTLINK LTD
Christine Ball PR
7th September 2007
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