We start with a local departure for the journey north. Accommodation has been reserved at the excellent Redworth Hall Hotel. This features lounges, a bar, restaurant and gardens. Facilities include an indoor pool, spa and beauty salon. All rooms are well appointed.
The hotel has also included these special extras:
- 4 choice, 3-course dinner with coffee
- Free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel
- Tea / coffee on arrival
- Use of the leisure club
During your stay we have included these great excursions:
- A visit to Durham with its Viking heritage and links with the monks of Lindisfarne. The Norman Cathedral, set above the River Wear and the Mediaeval cobbled streets are all worth exploring. In the afternoon we reach the small seaside resort of Seaham with a small harbour, sandy beach and cliff walks
- A visit to Whitby – home of Captain Cook and notorious as the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s spine chilling Dracula novel. We include a visit to the Capitan Cook Memorial Museum, charting his life and times in Whitby, before free time to enjoy the attractive tourist centre. In the afternoon we follow the coast north past Staithes, where Cook was a grocer’s apprentice before reaching his old school room in pretty Great Ayton, to view their museum of Cook’s early life
- A visit to Richmond with its majestic castle and attractive centre, before continuing to the rolling hills of the Yorkshire Dales to reach peaceful Wensleydale and the popular tourist centre of Hawes. We include a visit to Wensleydale Creamery where the famous Wensleydale cheese is produced