STAY exploring. Our guide to making the most of your stay

WELCOME Holiday Inn delivers so much more than just a bed for the night. Enjoy modern dining, 24-hour room service and free use of the health club and pool, as well as family-friendly facilities promising fab fun for the kids. Our dedicated team is always on hand with the latest local information to help you make the most of your time in the area. Whatever the reason for your visit, we are here to help make your break great.

Holiday Inn Taunton M5, Jct.25 Deane Gate Avenue, Taunton TA1 2UA T: 0871 942 9080 hitauntonhotelm5.co.uk IN THE HOTEL ON-SITE IN-HOTEL DINING HEALTH CLUB

The Junction Restaurant Open daily from 6.30am – 10.00pm Open daily from and 7.00am – 9.00pm on 6.30pm – 9.30pm every day. weekends and Bank Holidays. Enjoy simple British classic dishes; • Indoor heated pool – enjoy great value, freshly prepared and swimming with the kids generous portions. • Sauna and whirlpool Also available: • Fully equipped, air-conditioned • 24-hour room service to order fitness room with cardiovascular breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks and free-weights training • A lighter meal or snack in our • Wide range of beauty and comfortable bar and lounge massage treatments with Sky TV. Open from KIDS • Children’s programme available 7.00am – 11.00pm on weekdays, EAT 8.00am – 11.00pm on Saturday FREE! and 8.00am – 10.30pm on Sunday. Children eat FREE* from our ‘Grow Healthy Club’ kids’ menu.

AWARD WINNING IN-ROOM BREAKFAST ENTERTAINMENT

Served daily between • High-speed Internet access† 6.30am – 9.30am and • LCD, high-definition TVs 7.30am – 10.30am on • 25 free-to-air channels weekends and Bank Holidays. • Movies on demand† If you aren’t on an inclusive bed and breakfast break, why not treat A great way to relax after a day yourselves to our award-winning** exploring all that Somerset has breakfast menu? to offer. Simply order from the comfort of your room, relax and enjoy.

*Children under the age of 13 years are offered breakfast free of charge from the breakfast standard menu and free dinner taken from a children’s menu, when accompanied by at least one adult taking at least one main course from a full priced main restaurant menu. The meal offers apply only to the hotel in which the family is staying and during the normal hours of food provision. **Midas Menu Innovation and Development Award 2011. †Charges apply. Please ask at Reception for further details. Images are indicative only. All information correct at time of print. STAY EXPLORING. For a selection of great hotels across the UK, Your guide to Somerset’s most-loved visit tophoteloffers.co.uk attractions is overleaf > STAY Just a few of the outstanding EXPLORING. attractions Nearby...

1 Taunton Castle 3 Wookey Hole

Just a few miles from the hotel A little further afield but definitely stands Taunton’s most important ‘worth the detour’ is the world famous secular building. From its 12th century Wookey Hole, legendary home of the origins, the Castle had fallen into infamous Witch of Wookey and the disrepair but a Heritage Lottery Fund most spectacular caves in Britain. grant enabled it to be redeveloped Recently re-vamped, the new as the County Museum, opened in Wookey Hole Experience has a 2011, where you can now see many huge line-up of attractions for all treasures including the famous the family as well as the astonishing Frome Hoard of Roman coins. caves themselves.

TA1 4AA: 3 miles BA5 1BA: 33 miles from from the hotel the hotel

2 H estercombe 4 Taunton Gardens Town Centre

Less than quarter of an hour from the Taunton, the county town, has hotel lie these enchanting gardens, a wonderful mix of shops and often referred to as ‘Paradise restaurants, and the charm and Restored’. Once abandoned, these hospitality of its people make it a 50 acres of walks, streams, lakes, really special Somerset experience. cascades, temples and terraces have There are also three quite different been lovingly restored to provide shopping arcades – Orchard, County hours of pleasure and views Walk and Crown Walk, and the that will, quite simply, take Taunton Farmers’ Market every your breath away. Thursday in the High Street.

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