EDINBURGH • LAKE DISTRICT • NORTHUMBERLAND • BLACKPOOL 2020 Day Trips Welcome to Stanley Travel’s April 2020 Day Trips brochure! - Admission Not Included - Admission Included Our UK Day Trip offering has expanded over the years and we are proud to provide such a varied selection of outings across the country. We have brought you new and exciting destinations mixed in with plenty of popular favourites, so we truly believe GOOD FRIDAY there is something for the whole family. For this year we have also introduced Buy 1, Get 1 FREE on selected trips. FRI Whitby Adult £18.50 Day Trips are operated by our own fleet of modern coaches fitted 10th Visit the working fishing and seaside Child with the latest features for your added safety and enjoyment. resort of Whitby in North Yorkshire for £16.50 We welcome group bookings on all of our Day Trips. If you organise a Good Friday to remember! Why outings for social groups, clubs, WIs etc., we have special discounts not climb the 199 steps to the ruins available on most of our Day Trips for groups of 15+. of the gothic Whitby Abbey and To make the booking process easy for you we have outlined the nearby St. Mary’s Church, which pricing and joining points for each trip as well as a brief summary of overlook the sea? Enjoy the fresh what you can expect. sea air and marvel at the beauty of this seaside town which, as We offer a comprehensive choice of pick up points around the we’re sure you know, was the local area and we endeavour to keep these to an absolute inspiration for Bram Stoker’s horror minimum so you can get to your destination without undue delay. novel, Dracula. New for 2020 - at your pickup point you will be given an Allocated As is tradition on Good Friday, Seat by the driver when boarding to ensure that you will be sat don’t forget to tuck into some fish together with the rest of your party. Also, you have the option to and chips from one of the many Reserve Seats of your choice for an additional £5.00 per seat. Route restaurants and cafes - go on, it’d All of our trips are available to book and pay for online at your A be rude not to! convenience via our secure website, www.stanley-travel.com or by calling our office on01207 237 424, between 9.00am and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday, where we will be happy to assist. EASTER MONDAY There will be additional ad-hoc trips being added throughout the year for special interest events, these will be advertised on social Adult media and added to our website as soon as they are released. MON Southport £19.25 13th Join us on a trip to the largest seaside resort Child in Merseyside, boasting a beautiful and March expansive coastline on the Irish coast. You £17.25 will not be short of things to do in this lovely Adult NEW FOR 2020 MOTHER’S DAY resort, whether it is building sandcastles on £29.00 the beach, eating fish and chips on the Child promenade, enjoying the tranquillity of SUN ‘Vera’ Tour (A Must for Every ‘Vera’ Fan) £27.00 the coast, having a stroll along the oldest 22nd Spend a day on the Northumberland coast; iron pier in the country, or having fun in the following in the footsteps of the brilliant DCI Stanhope, Route arcades and the funfair. There’s plenty to do and the much-loved ITV drama ‘Vera’. This guided A in Southport for all the family! tour will take you to some of the most memorable crime scenes and some regular haunts of Vera, covering some atmospherically rural and beach site Tickets locations where the grisly murders took place. An SAT Leeds and Leeds Market £20.00 action-packed day where you will have time to get 18th Discover Leeds, a shopper’s paradise and off the coach to take photos of these locations. We a popular destination with our customers will be making a stop en-route for you to take a break for many years. From the quirky boutiques and have a bite to eat. So, grab your ‘Vera’ mac and and big-name high street shops to the hat because you are in for a great day out! popular Kirksdale Market (which is the This tour is fully guided and a video will be played on largest covered indoor market in Europe), Route the coach showing you clips from the show that you Route no wonder it has been named the best C are visiting. A shopping destination in the UK! April May - Admission Not Included - Admission Included BANK HOLIDAY - VE DAY SAT Harrogate Flower Show Adult £37.50 FRI Scarborough Adult 25th Once again, we visit the world-famous Child £19.00 Harrogate Flower Show, held in the Great 8th We’re off to the seaside! Join us for a classic £15.50 Child Yorkshire Showground. This popular flower North East day out in the popular Yorkshire show has been a favourite with our customers seaside resort of Scarborough with its two £17.00 who return year after year to visit this bays and sandy beaches, split by the prestigious event, which is one of the best headland, and home to the 12th century of its kind. The show features beautiful show Scarborough Castle. There are lots of things gardens, great shopping opportunities and to do for all the family in this much-loved Route the biggest exhibition by florists and flower resort. You can visit Peasholm Park, the Spa, A arrangers in the country. amusements, ice cream parlours, or the Route working harbour, or simply take a deckchair A and relax on the sandy beach. SAT Harrogate Town Adult £17.50 25th If the Harrogate Flower Show isn’t your thing Child SAT Skipton and a Leisurely Canal Cruise Adult then why not visit the beautiful spa town 9th £27.00 of Harrogate, with its historic buildings, £15.50 Come with us on our popular day out to the Child beautiful gardens, shops, restaurants, and market town of Skipton, famous for its 900-year- £25.00 Route tea rooms? There is plenty to keep you busy old castle, romantically ruined priory and A throughout the day! historic cobbled streets. There’s time for you to stroll around the market before we head to the canal for an afternoon boat trip along a stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Coffee, tea and biscuits will May Route be served to you whilst we’re on board, and is A included in your ticket price. SAT Edinburgh City or Edinburgh Zoo Adult Adult 2nd £19.50 SAT The “New Borders Loop” & Take in Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh, £23.00 Child 16th Afternoon Tea home of Scotland’s crown jewels, and The Child £17.50 Our first stop of the day takes us to the Stone of Destiny, once used for centuries to £21.00 crown many of Scotland’s kings. beautiful market town of Alnwick, rich in history and dating back to 600AD. From Edinburgh has a vast amount of shops, here we stop by the small village of Etal, restaurants, cafes and bars and is always which lies on the bridging point of the River a popular destination with our customers. Till. Next up is the Teviot Smokery and Water After dropping passengers off on Princes Gardens, near Kelso, for afternoon cream Street for the city visit we then continue onto tea. There’s time here for you to enjoy the Edinburgh Zoo, which is built on a hill across tranquil setting before we make our journey 84 acres, with views over the city. The zoo is Route home, travelling via Jedburgh and through home to over 1,000 rare and endangered D the Northumberland National Park. animals including giant pandas, zebras, penguins, lions, tigers, anteaters, Malayan sun bears, and plenty more. We leave the zoo at 4:30pm and head to Route the city to pick up the rest of the passengers B at 5:00pm for our journey home. May May - Admission Not Included - Admission Included Adult SAT Blackpool or Blackpool Zoo NEW FOR 2020 £19.00 23rd Grab a ‘kiss-me-quick’ hat and ice cream on Child our popular day-by-the-seaside at Blackpool! WED Magical Birds and Butterflies Adult Filled with fun things to do for all the family, £17.00 £21.50 27th This nature-focused day out offers everyone, you can visit the famous tower, the Blackpool Child from the grandparents to toddlers, a perfect Tower Ballroom, or any of its three piers filled £19.50 with entertainment and things to do! In fact, day together. Bring the family to Butterfly World why not be daring and brave the hair-raising at Preston Park, and wander through the rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach? Or you specially-created tropical indoor rainforest, could take things slow and explore the Grade with a kaleidoscope of the world’s most exotic II listed Stanley Park and the beautiful new butterflies flitting around you, whilst you take in promenade that makes the Golden Mile a splashing waterfalls, beautiful foliage and a host pleasure to stroll along. of other animals, such as meerkats and reptiles. From here, we stop by Yarm where you can grab Alternatively, enjoy a day out at Blackpool a bite to eat, before travelling to Thirsk to visit the Zoo, beside Stanley Park. Home to over Bird of Prey and Conservationist Centre.