Rock On - Slate Song!

A totally unique opportunity at Honister!

See, hear and experience something you will possibly never see, hear and experience ever again!

The Lithophone or Harmonicum (An instrument which features slate pieces of varying tones) based permanently at Keswick Museum, will be brought to Honister as part of this musical extravaganza and re-assembled, deep underground.

What follows, you will have to wait and see!

The atmosphere within is what Dolby Systems Inc has always tried to emulate-This is the original and natural 'Surround Sound!'

There are only four opportunities to experience this.

Places are sevearly limited for health and safety reasons!

Saturday & Sunday 4th & 5th April.

2 tours each day - departing at 12.30 & 15.30 to include experience! Standard prices apply.

For more informaation visit Honister.com

Otterburn Life New Website

Otterburn Life have the following offer that I thought you might be interested in:

20% off all orders placed online between 25/3/09 & 6/4/09*

Simply enter the code INTRO1 at checkout, click on apply discount and your 20% discount will be applied.

(*Subject to availability. Delivery charges apply. Delivery within the UK. Subject to Otterburn Life terms and conditions, available online)

Take a look at www.otterburnlife.com

Twitter

I have been playing with Twitter you can now follow me at http://twitter.com/daysoutinfo

Best of Lakeland Show 2009

We are just getting ready for the 2009 Best of Lakeland show at the Hydro Hotel in Winderemere www.bestoflakeland.co.uk. It will be different this year as in the past it has been a trade only show with the Marquee focused on attractions and the Hotel on the catering trade. This the 2nd day is open to the public and the focus is in the marquee is on from the Farm to the Plate.

The show is on the 16th and 17th of March we are stand 104 in the marquee, if you want loads of information days our across Northern England pop over and say hello, or do it from the comfort of your home at www.daysoutinfo.co.uk

Lake District Peninsulas Partnership

The end of March brings the end of an era when the Lake District Peninsulas Tourism Partnership ceases to exist in its current form. We have worked with Angela for a number of years and wish her all the best in her new role with Cumbria County Council.

Though a new group is forming lead by South Lakes Wild Animal park they will hopefully keep the partnership alive in a different format.

Soon you will start seeing the new Southern Lakeland Top Attractions leaflet that replaces the one produced in previous years, it is in a new format and i think it will work well, it will be on our website www.daysoutinfo.co.uk in the next few days and will be in sites across Northern England in time for Easter.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach 2009

It was really interesting to visit the 2009 Hoteliers launch for Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Meeting all the hoteliers again and also seeing how the new ticketing system works. The pleasure beach has opened a large new information and ticketing area because from now on you need a ticket to enter the pleasure beach. There are two levels of tickets one for entitles you to enjoy the ambience of the park, ride on the Pleasure Beach Express, Chinese Puzzle Maze, South Beach Show and our new Spectacular Dancing Water Show which costs £5.00. The 2ND is a wrist band so you can go on all the rides and if you book online costs only £15.00 at the moment. The website is www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com. Full details will also be on our website www.daysoutinfo.co.uk soon.

Quad Biking & FlyBE

Just spent the morning quad biking on the Isle of Man at Ballacraine, it was a great morning and fantastic value for money. After flying in from Liverpool with FlyBe last night its nice to be back on the Island for a weekend it was a great price only £55.00 return. The Flight from Liverpool was all on time and it was good to see plenty of our customers Tourist Information on Display at Speke including the National Trust and South Lakes Wild Animal Park.

DFDS Seaways & Bags of Info for Kids

I am really pleased that this year in our summer Bags of Info for Kids packs we are working with DFDS Seaways to give away a number of short breaks. We will be sending out a record 119,000 packs across the North. Since we launched the "Bags" we have managed to offer some great trips including Center Parcs, Pontins, Flamingoland, Ribbey Hall Village and The Pennington Hotel in West Cumbria. So adding DFDS to the list is fantastic.

2009 so far

So far in 2009 we have had a great year we are hoping the "stay cation" takes off as this will mean lots of visitors staying in the UK. We are developing our website www.daysoutinfo.co.uk and today we have hit the 150th leaflet listed.

After the Cumbria Tourism meeting yesterday it would seem that most Self Catering/Camp/Caravan sites are going great gones in 2009, but the hotels not doing quite so well

lets hope for a good summer....