Posts Tagged ‘Custom Group Tours Britain’

London Theatre Workshops

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Select Travel will tailor your drama workshop taking you through various make-up techniques to special effects! Our workshops are led by professional makeup artists who demonstrate how actors are taught to make themselves up every time they play a new character.

The workshop leaders will teach students make-up techniques used in theatrical drama, from applying foundations through to highlights, shading, aging, hairpieces and wigs via a live demonstration on a willing volunteer.

Alternatively, one of our lecturers teaches students how to achieve a range of special effects for film and television. Your group will be shown how the artist uses latex and other materials to create false pieces, bruises, scratchs, scars, wounds and frothing blood effects.

Also included in the workshop is a practical session where pupils are able to create their very own latex wounds! See the transformation before your very eyes!

England’s Best Pubs

Monday, July 27th, 2009

InnEngland – the website for finding the best pubs!

VisitEngland’s new InnEngland website (www.innengland.com) is the culmination of a national campaign to recognise one of England’s great cultural icons, the traditional English pub. Renowned worldwide for their welcome, diversity, history and now also for their food, the traditional pub is a must stop on most people’s British itineraries. The problem is, there are so many, which one do you visit? The new website offers recommendations, not only from the site administrators, but also from members of the public, who are invited to log on and add their favourite ‘locals’ to the list.

At Select Travel, our flexibility allows us to feature any of the recommended pubs in your group tour itinerary, or we can simply make recommendations of our own for that traditional pub experience. A pub dinner is a feature in most of our itineraries and for those who want to delve a little more into Britain’s pub culture, we’re happy to design itineraries that feature a selection of the best, along with visits to breweries, distilleries and other ‘cottage’ businesses producing the finest local foods and drinks.

Visiting Buckingham Palace

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Every summer visitors can experience life like the Queen during the opening of Buckingham Palace. Between late July and the end of September every year the Palace opens its doors to the public. See dresses and jewellery worn by The Queen, and gifts presented to Her Majesty by the people of the Commonwealth will be on display in Queen & Commonwealth: The Royal Tour. The exhibition marks the 60th anniversary of the modern Commonwealth and will evoke some of the most important overseas tours undertaken by Her Majesty during her reign. Select Travel will tailor your visit with along a Royal theme and can include visits to Hampton Court and Windsor Castle during a visit to England.

Visiting Wimbledon

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

So what happens at Wimbledon the other 50 weeks of the year? Having spent a day at Wimbledon watching the tennis this week, it strikes us this a great place to visit even when the championships are not on. There is nowhere quite like Wimbledon. It is unique and has an atmosphere all of its own. Even though the modernization of the club is now complete, providing facilities unmatched anywhere in the world, the venue retains its unique sense of history and tradition and everywhere you turn there are reminders of its glorious past.

Visitors year round can tour the grounds and visit the award-winning museum that houses the Championship trophies, the talking ‘ghost’ of John McEnroe telling stories about his days at Wimbledon, film footage of some of the greatest games played here, a CGI special effects cinema capturing the science of tennis and an unsurpassed collection of tennis memorabilia featuring racquets and clothing used by past champions including Borg, McEnroe, Navratilova, Graf, the Williams sisters, Sampras, Federer and Nadal.

2009 also marks the opening of the brand new CentreCourt360 exhibition – a remarkable viewing platform designed to offer viewers a full 360 degree interactive view of Centre Court and placing them in the shoes of the players themselves. Discover the technology of the court, the secret behind the ultra-smooth grass surface and what makes Centre Court one of the world’s great sporting theatres.

When planning your next tour with Select Travel, ask us about visiting Wimbledon and other notable sporting venues including Wembley (soccer, football), Twickenham (rugby), Lords (cricket) and other great stadia including Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal football clubs.

Shakespearean Anagrams

Friday, July 17th, 2009

A Friday brain teazer for all you fans of literary tours of Britain…

“To be or not to be: that is the question, whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of ourageous fortune”

This is an anagram of:

“In one of the bard’s best thought-of-tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten”

Planning a literary tour of Britain is rather more simple than this with Select Travel Service!

Bath and Jane Austen

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

The Jane Austen Centre located in the heart of the city of Bath in southwest England, is a permanent exhibition which tells the story of the author’s life experiences in the city, and explores the influence of those experiences on her work. Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath’s many famous residents and visitors.

She paid two long visits here towards the end of the eighteenth century, and from 1801 to 1806 Bath was her home. Visiting groups can enjoy a walking tour of Jane Austen sights in Bath followed by a traditional English tea at the award-winning Regency Tea Rooms. And now, strictly by appointment, Select Travel groups will now be able to take advantage of the Jane Austen Centre’s extensive costume collection and spend time dressed as a Regency lady or gentleman! A great photo opportunity and a fun activity for fans of the period or those with an interest in drama.

Select Travel has wide experience of Literary tours and will tailor your itinerary to visit sights associated with your own favourite authors.

Mad as a Hatter?

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Are you as Mad as a Hatter? Whether a “bowler”, a “trilby” or a “boater” hats have long been part of the English tradition. Hatworks in Stockport, near Manchester, a centre dedicated to the history of hats and millinery. Tours are led by expert demonstrators who will share their knowledge and expertise about the history of the hatting industry. Select Travel tours give an insight into the processes involved in producing a hat. Learn about the cottage industry, pay a visit to a typical hatter’s cottage, enjoy demonstrations with our original working Victorian-style machinery, plus much more.

Select Travel carries a broad range of industrial heritage tours of England.

Royal Windsor Wheel

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Everybody has heard of Windsor Castle, but Windsor now has two new reasons to visit:  The Royal Windsor Wheel is now almost a permanent fixture allowing groups to enjoy the panoramic views whatever the weather and from the comfort of their climate controlled capsules.  Visitors can soar over 50 metres into the skies above historic Windsor, with views over the Castle battlements, River Thames and countryside beyond. On a clear day or night you can even see as far as the gleaming arch of Wembley Stadium and the glittering skyline of Central London. Each of the 36 capsules can seat up to six people. Groups can also enjoy a glass of Pimms or champagne at the licensed Wheel Café Bar. Each flight will encompass a number of rotations and will last approximately 12 minutes.

Royal Windsor has also introduced a new Land Train providing a much needed service for groups and less able visitors from the coach park up to the Castle entrance and town centre shopping area, and return.  The Land Train seats up to 72 passengers, including access for one wheelchair. A commentary is provided, and the train will run at a relaxed pace enabling passengers to take in the town as they travel. The journey will take approximately 15 minutes each way.   So, no excuses not to make Windsor one of your “Top Ten Must-sees” when visiting!  In fact if any of your groups have mobility problems, then just let us know and we’ll be pleased to try and find a solution for you, so that each and every member of your group  can get the most enjoyment they can from their tour!

Garden Museum at Lambeth

Monday, May 4th, 2009

The Garden Museum in London is host to the “Festival of Small Nurseries” taking place through spring and summer. Why not take the opportunity to meet those passionate about their plants and learn from the experts.  Allow Select Travel to organise your special themed garden tour of the UK and this time of year is the perfect time to combine the Chelsea Flower Show with a visit to the Garden Musem. The museum explores and celebrates British gardens and gardening through its collection, temporary exhibitions, events, symposia and garden.  Whether you are an enthusiastic amateur gardener, more of a specialist or someone with a passion for museums, history even architecture the Museum has something for you.  Situated on the South Bank of the Thames, opposite the Houses of Parliament, the Museum has a spectacular home in the former St Mary-at-Lambeth parish Church, which itself its steeped in history and has some interesting stories to tell.  There is plenty for comtemporary gardeners too. The potting Shed offers practical seasonal gardening advice in an imaginative setting, and the Museum is a focal point for garden-related events and activities.

Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

A visit to Arsenal’s Emirates stadium is perfect for that football (soccer) enthusiastic group staying in London. Follow in the footsteps of your Arsenal heroes by joining the Emirates Stadium Tour and taking a look behind the stunning Emirates Stadium. You will have the opportunity to see all the areas which are crucial to the team on a matchday - from a walk down the players’ tunnel to a seat in the first team dressing room. On standard tour, you will also visit the Directors Box and the Press Conference facilities. Visiting teams can also have the opportunity to join one of the fantastic Legends Tours. You will be shown around Emirates Stadium with a hero from Highbury’s past who will reveal his thoughts on the current team, his playing days and any news from the inner sanctum of Arsenal Football Club. After you have looked around the stadium stroll around the clubs museum with fascinating artifacts from the clubs past.