COMPETITION

Tell us about a holiday taken with friends for the chance to win a hotel stay worth over £500

Our cover story celebrates the return of holidays with friends, an idea that lost currency during months of social distancing. We look at the highs and lows of travelling as a group and help you pick the perfect formula for a harmonious escape. If you have been on such a holiday, we’d like to hear where you went, what you did and why it was a success – or a failure.

The reader who sends in the best entry wins a hotel stay worth over £500.

ABOUT THE PROVIDER Seaham Hall (seaham-hall. co.uk) is an immaculately restored Georgian country house on Durham’s Heritage Coast, in a clifftop position just steps from the beach and the

England Coast Path.

Dating back to 1791, its history is fascinating: Lord Byron was married there in 1815; it was a military hospital during the First World War; and it served as a Spey whisky smuggling den at the time of US Prohibition (the tunnel used is still visible in the wine cellar).

The five-star hotel boasts two restaurants (the Dining Room and panAsian Ozone), the Five Bubble Luxury 44,000-sqft Serenity Spa and 21 individually designed suites, some with private outdoor hot tubs. Its glamorous Ada Lovelace Suite, honouring Byron’s daughter (the world’s first computer programmer), is a superb split-level suite with two mischievously placed slipper baths overlooking Seaham

Hall’s 37-acre grounds.

THE PRIZE

Seaham Hall is offering an escape for two people, staying for one night with breakfast in a luxury

Junior Suite, including a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a three-course dinner in the Dining Room, a Rasul Mud treatment to share and full use of the hotel’s spa, worth over £500.

Bookings are subject to availability and valid for Sunday to Thursday stays only until June 30 2022. Excludes bank holidays (April 17-18; May 2; and June 2-3).

HOW TO ENTER

Email your entry (as close to 150 words as possible please) together with your name, address and telephone number, by midnight on Tuesday March 15, to yoursay@ telegraph.co.uk. Only one prize can be won per person and it is non-transferable and non-refundable.

Other T&Cs apply. See telegraph.co.uk/ttyourtravels for details.

The Dining Room, one of two restaurants at Seaham Hall