“The general trend is people taking more holidays,” says John Worthington, a senior travel analyst at Mintel. At the larger camps, it was not impossible for up to 10,000 people to need to be catered for. Instead, most modern caravans are state-of-the-art homes away from home, offering you all the familiar home comforts that you could possibly need. Those who like their home comforts will enjoy Cardiff, which offers shopping, restaurants and a buzzing nightlife. Morecambe and Llandudno will also be popular. And the railways had to be prepared for unexpected periods of good weather. And that was for unexpected good weather – what happened when the holiday season began ‘in earnest? This holiday park is one of Haven’s largest parks, making it one of the best caravan sites UK soil has to offer to visitors from all over the country and abroad. From London Bridge and Victoria special emergency excursions were run, and Liverpool-street saw a great rush of visitors to Felixstowe and Clacton.
The Kent coast offers great variety from the shingle shores of Whitstable which is perfect for foodies to the sandy beaches of Botany Bay and Broadstairs. It offers you a glorious holiday time that you had been longing for years. I was on holiday last week, a proper time-off holiday in a sunny part of Spain. Paignton and Torquay are becoming increasingly popular week by week, for people are beginning to realise that they can obtain tickets covering from Saturday to Monday at these two places, including meals and accommodation, for £3 10s, and £3 4s 6d, respectively. Sir – No one who enjoys quiet, with amusement of a reasonable kind, can be surprised at the action, now threatened by the authorities of many sea-side health resorts, against the vast increase of excursion trains. As you can imagine, the majority of answers were that caravanners don’t have one! They don’t look particularly pretty, but these were built as work-horses and were designed to withstand the knocks inevitably dished out by enthusiastic players during the 90s. Our guide on the day Drew, told us he estimated that several hundred of these were hand built in the workshop. Indeed, the 1920s and 1930s were to be the heyday of the railway day tripper, in a time before the majority of the population had cars, and still relied on the railways.
The railways have helped to shape the British seaside as we know it today, and many of us still take advantage of them for day trips and for our holidays, especially for staycations this year! We have a range of holiday parks within the Best of British group, including family friendly campsites and adult only camping pitches. What Makes a British Caravan Holiday So Special? That means that a family going on a caravan holiday really only needs to account for their pitch and electricity fees when they go away. So it was a family holiday, albeit one which involved a substantial amount of remote working on Matthieu’s part. Meanwhile, one ‘Visitor’ at Weymouth was busy two years later firing off a letter in protest against ‘The Seaside Trippers‘ to the editor of the London Evening Standard. But there was no avoiding it, despite the protests of our Weymouth holiday maker. This year the Victorian Society is encouraging you to ‘holiday at home’ and rediscover the wonders of the Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort.
If you are looking for a quieter sort of holiday, but still want to make sure that you are close to all the facilities that make your holiday comfortable, Brixham would seem like a good choice. If all the fishing history and scenic beauty is not enough to get you blood pumping, why not visit the ghosts of Brixham? In Scotland, the number of people heading to visitor attractions fell 3.9% in July, according to Visit Scotland, although the number of visits to indoor activities was up. I would imagine this was a difficult weekend for Lauren, but we drove home with a sense of having done something good for the family, and left them with the assurance that all this old stuff – which let’s face it, is just junk to many people – was all going to good homes and would be restored and fixed up. As the ever-expanding railway network opened up miles of coastline to day-trippers, people flocked to take the sea air and architects were inspired to design some of our most playful and exotic buildings.