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Orkney Islands The Gower Peninsula Outstanding Welsh Heritage and Landscapes. Depending on your room allocation, Holiday Information Sheet Hotel information: your room will be available between 2pm and 4pm. If you arrive and your room is not ready you may drop your Holiday Dates bags off at reception and make yourself comfortable in the hotel lounge. Check out on departure is by 11am. Grade D/D+ 2016 holidays Extending your stay: should you wish to extend your holiday please contact Date Nights Code us on 01707 386800 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Sun 24 April 5 79705 Sun 15 May 5 79705 Oxwich Bay Hotel Mon 11 July 4 79704 Please note that prior to us making any Mon 26 September 4 79704 The Oxwich Bay Hotel changes to your booking, you must Oxwich Bay confirm any request for additional Gower Peninsula accommodation in writing. Swansea What to expect SA3 1LS Joining the Holiday Moderate walking at grade D/D+ in Tel: 01792 390329 an Area of Outstanding Natural [email protected] To reach the hotel: Beauty. www.oxwichbayhotel.co.uk Visiting the village of Rhossili, a by car: Leave the M4 at Junction gateway for walkers and beach Hotel facilities include: 42, which will take you into lovers. Twin bedded and double en-suite Swansea. Follow the signs for the Views of dramatic coastline and bedrooms in the main hotel Gower and then South Gower. cliffs. building or in the cottages. All You will see Swansea Bay to the single occupied rooms are doubles left of you, head towards Mumbles for sole use. Some rooms have a but keep following the signs for Your Hotel shower only or a bath only and Gower. Take a right turning at the traffic lights for Singleton Hospital. some rooms have both. Full English breakfast. Right at the next mini roundabout, The three star Oxwich Bay Hotel is straight through the next set of situated on the picturesque Gower Free Wi-Fi in the hotel bar and traffic lights and left at the 'T' Peninsula, just a stone’s throw from the hotel rooms. No Wi-Fi is currently Junction onto the South Gower beach. For your four or five night stay, available in the cottages. Road. Follow this road through the hotel provides charming Rooms have tea/coffee making Killay, past Swansea Airport, until accommodation in the hotel and in their facilities, flat screen TV, telephone you see a sign for Oxwich on your cottages, all of which is en-suite. The and radio. left. Take a left at Oxwich Village hotel is a very welcoming and Excellent standard 3 course set cross roads. The hotel is by the comfortable place to stay with friendly menu dinner in the sea view beach at the end of the road. staff. There is a lounge bar and a restaurant. There is car parking at the hotel. restaurant which offers an excellent Lounge and bar area. dining experience and is a popular choice for those living near Swansea. by rail / coach: The nearest railway station and coach station We stay on a half board basis, with the is Swansea. There are direct trains first meal being dinner on the day of from London Paddington station arrival and the last meal, breakfast, on and Cardiff Central amongst other the day of departure. Please note that places. A taxi from Swansea picnic lunches are not included on this station to the hotel will take about holiday, but can be purchased from the 20 minutes and will cost around hotel at around £7. Alternatively there is £30. You may wish to phone a general store near to the hotel where Oyster Cabs (01792 367777) for a Oxwich Bay Hotel you can purchase picnic supplies. quote. You may also wish to look at the pass Pennard Castle and Three Cliffs following website for advice on the best Bay finishing back at the hotel. About way to travel to the hotel; 11 miles and 250 meters ascent. www.rome2rio.com Route planning to and from Oxwich Bay: The AA and RAC both offer free and detailed on-line route planning facilities on their websites which may help you find our hotels. Details can be found at: Oxwich beach (Martin Shepley) www.theaa.co.uk Walking the western beaches. A walk through a limestone valley to the www.rac.co.uk Three Cliffs Bay (Martin Shepley) cliff path takes us to views of Worm’s Head. We shall see spectacular views of Meeting your tour leader and Rhossili Beach and a climb to Rhossili fellow walkers: Down are followed by a descent to Your Ramblers Worldwide Burry Holms with its church Holidays Tour Leader Please check the time of dinner remains.The walk continues inland to (approximately 7pm) on arrival at the the village of Llangennith with an hotel, and aim to be in the lounge bar interesting church. About 10 miles and Your Ramblers Worldwide Holidays half an hour before dinner for an 200 meters ascent. leader will assure you of safe and introduction to your Ramblers enjoyable walking throughout your Worldwide Holidays tour leader, an holiday. outline of the planned programme for your holiday and the chance to meet As our representatives 'in the field', your walking companions. leaders are responsible for the safety of the walking group and the overall success of the holiday. Any final Your Holiday Programme decision regarding the daily programme and the safety of the group as a whole or the participation of individuals lies The wonderful and varied landscape of with the leader. the Gower Peninsula (Penrhyn Gwyr) was the first place in Britain to be Worm’s Head (Martin Shepley) Please advise your leader if you have designated as an 'Area of Outstanding any medical condition that he or she Natural Beauty' (AONB), and is still just Castles and Cairns. should be aware of and which may one of only five within Wales. 2016 sees This walk crosses the peninsular from require attention or special the Gower Peninsula celebrating its 60th north to south and visits two castles, an consideration during your holiday. year as an AONB, an accolade that has ancient burial chamber and the Gower truly stood the test of time. Ridgeway. As such it differs from the other walks in that it doesn’t have a Recommended Maps Gower is quite a small area just 25km beach aspect to the day. On a clear day long and 13km wide but within this the whole of Gower will be visible to small area are found some of the UK’s you. About 9 miles and 180 meters The walks mentioned above are most spectacular beaches and coastal ascent. covered by the following maps: walks, golden sands, geological outcrops, standing stones, caves and Ordnance Survey Explorer 1:25,000 gulleys, wildlife habitats, Norman Series 164 Gower / Gwyr castles and ancient churches and pretty villages. Within the selection of walks that we have chosen there will be Local Costs & Expenses opportunities to see a wide selection of the aspects of the area for which Gower is justly famous. Although the cost of local transport as required in conjunction with the leader’s The programme may include a selection walking programme is included in the holiday, the cost of any entrance fees to of walks and sightseeing days out from Pennard Castle (Martin Shepley) the following, which give an indication sites visited is not. of the nature of the walking terrain and The Southern Coast. the format of the holiday: Whilst you are on an included walk or This walk explores the south of Gower. excursion, an additional guided tour or There is a choice of starting point, entrance to an attraction may be Two Bays circular walk. either from Caswell Bay, which gives a offered as an optional activity at a A circular walk from the hotel taking in full day on the coastal path or, for a reasonable charge. If you choose not Oxwich Castle, an inland series of lanes more interesting alternative, begin the to participate in a proposed option, you to Port Eynon and a return along the walk inland with the first section down will normally have time at leisure at the coastal path with views of Port Eynon Bishopston Valley, with its fascinating starting point of the offered activity. Bay and Oxwich Bay. About 9½ miles geology and swallow holes, to join the Please keep your leader advised of your and 250 meters ascent. coast path at Pwlldu Bay. Each walk will plans. Insurance Personal Notes Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/Ramblersholiday Although not compulsory for this holiday, we strongly recommend that you take out travel insurance to cover Please note that this Holiday you in the event of eventualities such as Information sheet may be periodically unexpected cancellation, accident or updated and reissued. illness before your holiday, lost or stolen personal possessions etc. In most cases any revisions will be minor and the overall nature of the holiday will be unchanged. Should we need to make a major change to the Further Information holiday arrangements between you booking your holiday and your date of Please note that unless we need to travel we will notify you to specifically contact you regarding payments due or draw your attention to any significant any late revisions to the holiday change. arrangements, we do not expect to contact you again before the start of You may wish to review the latest your holiday. version of the Holiday Information sheet online prior to travel. Should you require any further information regarding this holiday, © Ramblers Worldwide Holidays 2016 please call us on 01707 386800 or contact us by e-mail at Issued: 19 January 2016 [email protected].
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