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1st June 2024

Just arrived home from our  3 week holiday, [1st one in 11 years] Had a great time with our friends Pat & Jeff, cruising round the Med, visiting a place I have always wanted to visit, Italy including a visit to Rome.

Now back home and back to reality, A full summer of tours for festivals and gigs,

We have now just about sorted all our Breaks for 2024 and 2025, the 1st one being the Savoy Hotel  Skegness in October that is now full and operating a standby list, in November it’s the Monterey Beach Hotel where we have only 2 rooms left , then into 2025 where our Back to Back weekends at the Savoy Hotel Skegness are filling fast with about 5 rooms each weekend left to fill, not bad with 8 months to go,  and then onto April 2025 to our weekend at Tiffany’s Blackpool that has only 2 rooms left at this point of the year. So things there are better than expected.

All we need now is a summer of sunshine so I can get some fishing in the it will have been an excellent year, fingers crossed.

Can’t believe nearly half the year gone, it’s been a whirlwind since Christmas 2023, have a good summer everyone,

 

Carolann B

17th  March ,

Well we had a great time again at the Royal Hotel for our two back to back weekends,  just a little disappointed, in that the hotel has decided to go to a Bed & breakfast hotel, and unfortunately the staff  knew something was going off and were not quite up to their usual cheeriness, but managed to do their jobs very well.

Barrie & I have really liked this hotel for all the years we have been coming, the staff and management have made us really welcome and we have been “At Home” there. But as they can no longer supply the  needs of the group it is with heavy heart that we have had to cut ties and move to another Venue.

Having said that, we have been made to feel welcome at our new “Home” at the SAVOY HOTEL, and we have updated the website with all the new details for 2025, so thank you to all at the Royal  for you’re hard work for us over the years and thank you to Neil and his staff at the SAVOY HOTEL for making us so welcome. And the most thanks have to go to our Loyal customers and friends that are coming next year to make the Savoy another great place for our weekend breaks.

 

Carolann B.

1st January 2024

Sorry I have not kept things up to date in 2023, but my only excuse is that it has been a very hectic year, Not the best but definitely not the worst, As they say, things can only get better.

Firstly many thanks from Barrie & I for all the wonderful gifts and cards we have received, plus all the wonderful messages both on text and by Email,  I must admit I also have started doing what I said I would not do, that is send Christmas messages via Emails, it cost us over £350 last year for  stamps, and this year would have seen the bill reach £500 plus, which is ridiculous , so sorry!!! Royal Mail, but you have lost my business.

I am pleased to say all our weekends went well in 2023,  and we are on track  to maintain the same for 2024, our 2 back to back breaks at the Royal Hotel are now full and we are onto a standby list for these two weekends.

Tiffany’s booking are going well we still have  about 10 to 12 rooms available for that break in April, and we are down to the last 3 rooms for  Monterey Beach Hotel  in November of 2024, Unfortunately our NEW break for  March 2025 hasn’t come off, but we are still looking for hotels in different places that fulfil  all our requirements, we’ll keep our eyes out on our travels and will keep everyone informed. [SEE WEBSITE  HOLIDAY PAGE FOR FULL DETAILS]  

Well some big Birthdays and celebrations this year for Barrie and I, 2023 saw,  me enter my 30th year on the circuit as a Country Music Entertainer, and our 10th year of  running the Holiday, in 2024 it will mark Barrie’s 80th Birthday and our Ruby Wedding Anniversary, these 40 years have flown since I was a teenager, just doesn’t seem possible. So this year WE ARE going to have a holiday although like most holidays it will most likely be a working one.

The Calendar is nearly full for 2024 up to the end of August, and still bookings are coming in, we have started work on our 2025 tours now and started booking our Breaks weekends in and the southern tours first so that we can work the other booking in around that, we already have  nearly half our Christmas 2025 bookings in, but as Barrie will be 80 or 81 by then we are going to have to start slowing down and we have agreed to keep to a manageable 8 bookings a month for 2025 and the foreseeable future.

Well all the very Best for 2024, and once again thanks you all for your good wishes

 

Carolann B

15th Feb 2023

Many thanks to all those that sent us Christmas and New Year wishes,  It always humbles me that so many people remember Barrie & I, 

Well the 2 back to back weekends at the Royal Hotel really went well, we are now full for the normal February weekend and have only a few rooms left for the new January Weekend [SEE WEBSITE  HOLIDAY PAGE FOR FULL DETAILS]   we still have a few rooms left for Tiffany weekend in April but Nov at St Ann’s is now full and we have a standby list in operation,  my thanks to all those who have rang and offered gigs for 2023 and 2024, this has now allowed us to set out our main tours for these 2 years as we have some personal big Anniversaries coming up in 2024 and we are determined to have both a holiday and celebration of these events. So looking forward to the coming year and hopefully it’s a good one for you too.

 

Carolann B

5th December 2022

Another busy year  nearly behind us. I’m pleased to say that all our breaks this year went as planned, The February weekend at the Royal had a full house over 30 on our standby list and another 27 friends of people on the break wanting to come in 2023 so we now have 2 weekends back to back for Jan/Feb 2023 do now we are looking forward to that Well As I say the year has gone well and all that is left to do now is to say I hope to see  many of you at the Christmas Parties that we are doing over the December Month if not then can I wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas and a happy prosperous and healthy new year and look forward to seeing many of you in 2023

 

Carolann B

10 January 2022

My apologies to everyone who did not get a Christmas Card this year , we sent out over 400 cards, I’m going to look at the email type cards for next year as our stamp bill was astronomical,  The good news is that it looks as though Covid is on the way to being contained a little and life is slowly returning to a new normal.

January saw our Break at the Royal Hotel go really well, so much so that many people wanted to bring friends with them next year and we already had over 20 people on our standby list, so in 2023 we are going to run 2 weekends back to back,. The Royal do a special  Monday to Friday 4 nights for  £112 in 2022 but as always prices are rising and it will be £115 - to - £119 in 2023 that's still less than £30 per night for Bed, Breakfast and Evening Meal  so is good value, we have had to put our price up £5 for 2023 so each weekend is £165.  We have numerous new clubs to visit for the first time in 2022, and we have lost a few of our old favourites but all in all things are picking up and we are looking forward to the year ahead.

So have a good one, and stay safe out there

 

Carolann B

7 May 2021

 

It will be good to see  some of the clubs opening back up, though I think it will be the back end of the year, and maybe even into 2022 before we get back to a full normal - I know that some of the clubs will never reopen and that is a crying shame and I also know that some of the Artists themselves have either retired or taken on jobs over the last 18 months.

What I would like to do is thank all those people who take holidays and breaks with us for their understanding regarding the flexible way they have reacted to all the cancellations and transferred holidays, hopefully now the hotels have reopened we can get back on track

We have now booked the hotels for 2022 breaks and updated a lot of our pages on the website, so everyone keep safe and hope fully I shall get the chance to meet some of you in person  during the remainder of the year

 

Carolann B

LAST POSTING FROM OLD SHEET APPEARS HERE

 

08 January 2021

 

Happy New Year everyone, the year hasn’t set off to great but at least the prospect of the Vaccine  makes it look better for the late spring,  we have had to cancel or postpone our January/February break and have a provisional date of the 19th to the 22nd March pencilled in at the Royal hotel if people can go on those dates.

Other than that it’s just a matter of waiting till the lockdown is eased and to see what happens then with all the clubs etc.

So keep well and keep safe and hope to catch you all  later in 2021

 

Carolann B

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 2024

Mon 15th—Fri  19th  APRIL

TIFFANY’s HOTEL

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2025

Due to popularity of this break we are running two weekends

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Fri  31st Jan -   Mon 3rd Feb

SAVOY HOTEL

SKEGNESS

£195.00

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Skegness

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