High five for Garda
TAKE the family for a week’s holiday in the Italian lakes and get accommodation for five for £116. Al Fresco Holidays has seven nights at half price in a two bedroom Puccini mobile home at the four-star Del Garda Village and Camping in Lake Garda, from May 6. For details or to book go to alfrescoholidays.com or call 0161 332 8900. CHOCOLATE is a guilty pleasure for some of us right around the year... but Easter is a time for chocoholics to cast off the invisibility cloak and indulge in the object of their desire. Does chocolate taste different when you are suspended at 135 metres above the Thames?
Well, now is your chance to find out. Sign up for the London Eye’s Hotel Chocolat Tasting Experience where you sip chilled prosecco and learn about luxury chocs from a Hotel Chocolat expert during two 30-minute rotations.
This is an experience for those who are looking for something a little more sophisticated than an Easter egg hunt. HOW: The £53.95 price includes a Hotel Chocolat goodie bag. For tickets: londoneye. com/tickets-and-prices/experiences. For the Easter weekend from April 14-17 this lavish private estate beside Norfolk’s beaches is hosting themed activities, including a lesson on turning malt into Maltesers.
Holkham’s Easter Trail is an interactive experience about food and farming, where families can mill flour and test their foodie knowledge. Afterwards, get creative by icing Easter biscuits in the Hall’s Old Kitchen. HOW: Family tickets cost £41, holkham.co.uk. The adorably-named Choccywoccydoodah is pretty much as theatrical as chocolate shops can be, with an extravagant, ornamental Alicein-Wonderland interior that elevates chocolate intoin art. This OTT location in Brighton’s Lanes is alsoal offering an Easter Decadent Garden ExperienceEx in its small garden.
Staff will sell strawberry champagne ice cr cream shakes, followed by a dipping platter, p pink lemonade and a wedge of cake or an ice cr cream sundae. Watch out for Mad Hatters. HOW:H £30 per person, reserve by telephoning 01273 329 462. choccywoccydoodah.com. TheTh four-star Vale Resort is a spa and golf-break propertypr which offers chocolate packages. Its ChocolateC Lovers Break starts with a half-day workshopw making dipped chocolate and handrolledro truffles, use of all hotel facilities, as well as an overnight stay and full Welsh breakfast. YouYo will go home with a chocolate goodie bag. HOW:H £110 each, visit vale-hotel.com for dates.