Holiday for a lifetime
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lews of the new Dartford bridge or the pleasures of watching aircraft land at Heathrow Airport are among some of the delights suggested by the M25 Meetings group — 30 hotels which have banded together to promote holidays on London's orbital motorway.
The Selsdon Hotel, Croydon, admits it has yet to receive a flood of bookings as a result of this imaginative promotion, but its M25 tourists can expect free golf if staying for a week. The Swallow Hotel at Waltham Abbey offers a free Dawnbuster breakfast to enable a fast getaway, consisting of fruit, eggs benedict and fillet steak.
The Churchgate Manor at Harlow, Essex chucks in a free tank of petrol and others offer room discounts, free drinks or free afternoon teas. The idea, apparently, is that the motorway gives people access to lots of beautiful countryside if they can escape the contraflows and jams. If the worst comes to the worst many hotels are even supplying "survival picnics".
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