Sherwood Forest break Feb 2025
We are at Sherwood Forest for a few days. It's a Monday to Friday break and super cheap, it only cost me £275 for the 4 nights however I had to add on the premium WiFi (learnt my lesson from Clumber Park) and add on the dog. Forest holidays came from recommendations.
The lodges all come with hot tub as standard and they are beautiful, very spacious and much better than any lodge we've ever been in before. The premium WiFi also includes in-house entertainment which includes some new release films. Luckily I bought some popcorn! There is under floor heating which our dog has particularly enjoyed.
Monday, we couldn't check in until after 4pm so myself and my boyfriend decided to still work for the day and not book the time off. I have many lieu hours to use up from my job so I took Tuesday and Wednesday off as lieu and Thursday is my day off anyway. My partner is still working, as the WiFi is so good here he's able to. We booked a curry to be delivered to our cabin for 7pm not long after we arrived and honestly it was the best shout! We had a pretty disasterous journey, as we were leaving we noticed that Charlie had left his trainers at his dad's which is a 45 min drive south when we needed to be 45 mins north east!! So what was supposed to be 45 mins actually then took 2.5hrs after picking my boyfriend up from work and then heading to the holiday park. It was lovely to get in that hot tub!
On Tuesday we had a birds of prey activity, Charlie had changed his mind by then and didn't want to join me so stayed with my boyfriend. Tuesday evening we went out for a nature walk, it started well but didn't end great. And safe to say we won't be doing that, or anything similar to that again.
Wednesday bought new challenges, in the way of rifle shooting and archery. In the end we abandoned, down tools literally and headed to McDonald's. Another one that, again, I'll not try. Charlie did open up to me in the car, specifically around tutoring and education and we are going to have to take a step back. This trip was supposedly to help Charlie reset, and get back into learning but it's had the opposite effect.
Thursday the intention was to go horse riding. Instead we found ourselves in the hot tub, at the time we should have been horse riding. Charlie really struggled with leaving the cabin today, yesterday going to McDonald's was a lot. We have had lots of fun, lots of dips in the hot tub but he is ready to go home now.
Forest holidays has 13 locations, I'm making it my mission to visit them all! Charlie says he doesn't want to travel further than our local one, I am hoping he'll change his mind for at least the 3 closest to us. They are all just over 2hrs drive so it may be tricky, but it would be nice to have him with me when we do visit all the locations.
Despite it not going to plan, I do genuinely feel like he has enjoyed his time here and we have managed to stay all 4 nights!! Which is better than the last two UK trips we've had!! So I'm taking that for the win. I've definitely learnt a lot on this trip for the future UK trips! Let's hope forest holidays keep giving out the offers!!
Georgina x