GROUP VISITS/DAYS OUT FAIR & BROCHURE GIVEAWAY
at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, West
Sussex RH19 4JY
Friday February 27th 2009
10am - 2.30pm.
Please note the earlier closing time.
Details will be much the same as for the previous two years; see below.
Working with Saint Hill Manor and Tourism South East, Sussex Top Attractions Ltd again brings you a Group Visits/Days Out Fair combined with a Brochure Giveaway
on Friday February 27th 2009, between 10am - 2.30pm. Free admission!
There will be over 80 attractions represented for you to meet and talk to, and who can give
you brochures, leaflets, posters.
Who
will be there?
NEW - EXTRA - the
National Trust property Standen is very close by, and will be open for group
organisers and others to look round on Feb 27th.
The opening arrangements will be:
The gardens will be open 10.30am - 2.30pm.
There will be tours of the house at 11.30, 12.30 and 1.30 (which people will
register for on the day at the Saint Hill Fair).
The shop will be open 10.30am - 2.30pm.
The restaurant will be available to have a look around (they won't be serving
but it'll be an opportunity for group organisers to check out the facilities.)
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This Saint Hill event is complementary to, and in addition to, the Tourism South East TSE
Group Travel Fairs.
The contact for these at TSE is Travel Trade Officer Fran
Downton Tel: 023 8062 5409 Fax: 023 8061 8018. It will be very
similar to those promotions, but this one is more informally organised.
The event takes place inside the Great Hall at Saint Hill Manor, pictured
below.
There is ramp access for wheelchairs.
WHERE?
Saint Hill Manor is approx 1.7 miles south west of East Grinstead. Full
postal address: Saint Hill Manor, Saint Hill Road, East Grinstead, West
Sussex RH19 4JY For a map see www.streetmap.co.uk
and enter the postcode.
OS map ref: TQ
381359 It is very close to the NT property Standen.
COST?
There isn't any. Parking is free, entry is free, admission is free, light
refreshments are free, guided tours of Saint Hill Manor are free.
DETAIL
There is more than ample car parking space a short distance away on the site.
Everything takes places within one building - the event, refreshments,
toilets.
You will be very comfortable - the Great Hall is spacious, wall-to-wall
carpeted, with oak-panelled walls, plus air-conditioning, under-floor heating,
good lighting, a P A system. The refreshment area is indoors and immediately outside
the Great Hall.
REFRESHMENT
There will be free tea, coffee and biscuits for visitors all day. There will be plenty of tables and chairs to sit at, to
enjoy it.
BOOKING
There is no need to book, or to tell us you are coming. Just keep an eye
on this web page for updates.
GETTING THERE
Road - Saint Hill Manor is a short distance off the B2110
from East Grinstead to Turners Hill. Use the postcode RH19 4JY for SatNav
or with www.streetmap.co.uk
Rail - there is a half-hourly 55 minute service from London
Victoria to East Grinstead.
Traveline
is a very useful web site giving bus, coach and train information and will
probably help you wherever you come from by public transport.
Advice from Saint Hill Manor: on the question of
buses, it’s a number 84 from just round from the railway station (you should
enquire at the station for exact point of pick-up). However, we advise
people to take the taxi as the bus costs £2 and the taxi only costs between
£3.50 - £4.80. You have to wait for the bus (it runs every 2 hours by
the looks of it), it goes round the houses a bit and drops you off at the far
end of the estate and you have to walk quite a bit. So, taxi is the best.
Maybe some people imagine it’s very far and costs £10 - £15 but it’s a
reasonably short cheap trip, especially if there’s more than one person!
ENCOURAGEMENT
If you call at the Sussex Top Attractions stand, we will give bona fide group
organisers, coach operators, teachers a complimentary booklet of Trade Passes,
which enables 2 persons to visit a selection of 6 attractions free of charge for
inspection visits.
Saint Hill Manor will be offering free guided tours of the Manor during the
day, on the half-hour every half-hour.
Saint Hill Manor and Lake
BACKGROUND
Saint Hill Manor is the historic estate of author and humanitarian L Ron
Hubbard, and is the UK centre for Scientology.
See www.sainthillmanor.org.uk
for more information.
Liz Ostermann, PR and Events Director, Saint Hill Manor.
info@hubbardfoundation.co.uk
Two more Group Travel and Days Out Fairs
The Essex Tourism and
Leisure Show takes place at The Brentwood Centre, Essex CM15 9NN
(approx 10 mins from Jn28, M25) on Thursday February 26th between 10am - 4pm.
The Dover, Kent, Travel and Leisure Show
Sunday March 29th 2009, at the Dover Cruise Terminals.
For further information contact: Liz Hare, Events Manager, Kos Media
Events, Kosmedia ( Publishing) Limited,
Apple Barn, Hythe Road, Smeeth, Ashford, Kent TN25 6SR