EV Proposed Away Week 2020 - Ellesmere, Shropshire

EV AWAY WEEK 2020 – ELLESMERE NORTH
SHROPSHIRE 

Location:  Shropshire  and Fife vied for most popular in our 2018 poll, so having done Fife, we’ll do Shropshire! On offer for your delectation is Ellesmere north Shropshire (don’t confuse with Ellesmere Port). Wrexham, Oswestry, Chirk and Llangollen in cycling range. Flattish riding in the area and hilly west of Oswestry. Hopefully CJ will suss out all the interesting places to visit!

Travel: From Penrith 153 miles, 2.5 hours driving M6 traffic permitting.

Dates: Friday  April 24^th  to Friday 1^st May for a week. The venue offers  Fri-Fri or Mon-Mon, but only the former available as the largest  8 bed lodge booked from Fri 1^st.

Note Easter Sunday is April 12^th, and early May bank holiday Fri May 8^th, put back recently from Mon 4^thto coincide with VE day centenary.

Accommodation: Proposing Woodland Park Lodges about 2 miles north of Ellesmere itself. It’s independently owned / managed, but all bookings are under the Hoseasons umbrella.

https://www.hoseasons.co.uk/lodges/woodland-park-lodges-wopl

The site has 11 lodges comprising:

 1 x 8 bed (3 x double, 1 x twin)

 5 x 6 bed (2 x double, 1 x twin)

 5 x 4 bed (2 x double)

Note there is a bias towards doubles which could  cause limitations ….. we originally had 11 singles in 2019.

Lodges I believe are in fairly close proximity. There are no site additional facilities such as shop, games room, pool etc .

Proposal:
Presently all 11 lodges are available. Have made provisional booking held  for a week i.e. until June 24^th  for the 1 x 8 bed and 5 x 6 bed which is an optimistic 38 people maximum!

Cost:  Have negotiated 15% group discount and cost per person much less than last year at £110 assuming full occupancy. At this stage and assuming that doesn’t happen, we’ll go for  £120 per person to give a bit of bunce in hand. If any singles require a room to themselves, that’s £240.

Deposit: As you know there is no EV account  for payments or any ‘slush fund’, all is from my personal account.  To confirm places I need to pay a deposit by 24^th June. So please try to commit before then and give/send/BACS me money! Based on an iffy  experience for Fife, I reserve the right to be choosy on whether to accept an assurance that you are coming, without any associated payment.

I will pay the deposit on as many of the lodges as your payments and my choosiness allow! Thereafter as others decide and pay more lodges will be booked assuming they are still available.

Payment Now: Deposit £50 per person non-refundable if you cancel unless someone else found to take your place.

Action: Please let me know as soon as possible with one of the following:

YES      MAYBE    NO    (if No a reason would be useful  eg location, accommodation, dates, price)

If ‘YES’,  BACS bank account details will be emailed if required – risky to include in global blog / email.

Thanks - Les Meer

lesandruth@gmail.com 01768 881894 /  08740 568047 The Shire, Ousby, Penrith, Cumbria CA10 1PT