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Box River Travel Boutique, Sudbury, Sudbury, Suffolk (2025)

22/04/2025

🤔Travel Tip Tuesday🤔

Wrap it up……..

Scratch the surface of a scarf 🧣 or sarong and you’ll find a makeshift bag, a swimsuit 🩱 coverup, a respectful covering for religious sites, or a pillow.

The only limit is your imagination- and the tensile strength of cotton.

Pack a large scarf or sarong in your luggage 🧳, or even wear it on the plane ✈️. It’s almost a sure bet that you’ll find a use for it on your trip.

18/04/2025

Happy Easter 🐣 to all my wonderful clients. Enjoy the long weekend 🐰

08/04/2025

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than meeting up with new or old clients.

You can come to me or I can come to you, particularly if you are local.

It’s great talking through your holiday dreams and I love being able to make them come true ✈️🚁🧳🏝️🗺️⛵️🌇

04/04/2025

Happy Friday 🐢😁

03/04/2025

5th holiday booked for these loyal clients - this time they are jetting off to Thailand 🇹🇭

They will be breaking up the journey by flying ✈️Emirates from London Stansted via Dubai, making the travel time just over six hours for each part.

Once they arrive in Phuket they will be picked up by private transfer 🚖 and taken to the Beyond Karon Resort where they will be staying for 3 nights on a bed and breakfast basis.
Beyond Karon is nestled in a peaceful corner of Karon Beach 🏝️, they will enjoy breathtaking views of the Andaman Sea from their deluxe sea view room.

If they fancy going out then there are numerous shopping 🛍️ and entertainment venues as well as restaurants and bars in the immediate vicinity of the hotel 🏨, but if they want to stay put then the hotel has two main restaurants called At The Beach Bar & Restaurant and Motown on Fire 🔥. Beyond Cafe is where they will enjoy breakfast 🍳.

After they have chilled out and recovered from their jet lag they will be off to Elephant 🐘 Hills for 2 nights / 3 days. They will be staying in luxury tents that are equipped with all amenities and facilities such as tea and coffee stations, comfortable beds 🛏️, en-suite bathrooms 🚽 and electricity ⚡️ so they will be able to charge phones etc ….

Their experience will include:
Feeding and interacting with the elephants 🐘
Canoe 🛶 Safari down the Sok River
Evening activities - movie 🎥 presentations, dance 💃 performances and cooking 🧑‍🍳 demonstrations
Sightseeing in a traditional longtail boat on Cheow Larn Lake and visit to the Lake Camp ⛺️
Jungle trekking by foot through the rainforest

It’s going to be amazing!

Then they are back to the Beyond Karon Resort for some more R&R for 6 nights.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6VVErmfXo

02/04/2025

❗️LAST CHANCE TO BOOK❗️

01/04/2025

Gosh it’s April already……..

31/03/2025

Always so grateful to receive these…….
Thank you for your support of my little travel business, it really means a lot 🙏💖

29/03/2025

🚌COACH TRIPS AVAILABILITY 🚌

🎭Bat out of Hell🦇 - 5 tickets left

🎭Oliver - 4 tickets left

🎭MJ The Musical - 3 tickets left

⚓️Chatham Historic Dockyard with Call the Midwife Tour - 12 tickets left

🎄Bruges Festive Break - 11 spaces left

🎄Thursford Christmas Spectacular - SOLD OUT

Pick ups available from Hadleigh and Boxford.

Bruges Festive Break - pick ups available from Sudbury, Hadleigh and Boxford

If any take your fancy then please get in touch

📧[email protected]
☎️ 07747 608509

28/03/2025

Happy Friday Everyone 😎🍷

26/03/2025

For our one night stay we picked the Coco Hotel 🏨, why did I pick this one? Because it’s named after my cat 🐈 😂

Aside from that, it’s actually situated in a really cool area of Copenhagen called Vesterbro and is a fairly new boutique hotel, with 88 rooms, a cosy cafe and a cute courtyard.

We booked a single room each and it was a lovely bright room on the 2nd floor, it had a work station, a lovely bathroom with walk in shower (more wet room), no need to bring shampoo, conditioner or body wash 🧴, it’s all provided along with body and hand lotion, cotton pads and buds and hairdryer.

Next to the bed is a USB port for charging your phone and there’s a little snack station too (chargeable). The bed was very comfortable, it was a really lovely room.

Vesterbro has loads of restaurants and bars - all just a step away from the hotel, we walked just round the corner to a little square and found a quaint bar called Vinbaren for our pre-dinner drinks, it was pretty busy but we managed to get the last two seats up at the bar - candles were alight along the bar area and laughter filled the air, it was a nice atmosphere.

Then just two doors down from our hotel we ate in a restaurant called Bloom, food and service was brilliant, for a starter we shared Danish 🇩🇰 Blue Mussels and then I had Confit Duck and Spencer had the Pappardelle Pasta 🍝.

Everyone we came across in Copenhagen was very friendly and helpful.

There is a super train system, we caught the train 🚆 from the airport, it’s just two stops to the central station (13 minute journey) and then a 10 minute walk to the Coco Hotel 🏨

There was a cool shop along the way which we stopped in selling boots, hats and Bourbon 🥃, had a little bar in the back of the shop!

❗️Fun Fact❗️
Vesterbro has been named the hippest neighbourhood in Copenhagen - it was formerly the red light district!

All in all would definitely recommend Copenhagen and our hotel.

23/03/2025

Hop on Hop off Bus 🚎 - Points of Interest

Christianborg Palace - it’s a Palace and a Government building in central Copenhagen. It is the seat of the Danish 🇩🇰 Parliament, the Danish Prime Ministers Office and the Supreme Court of Denmark.
Several parts of the Palace are used by the Danish Monarchy 👑, including the Royal Reception Rooms, Palace Chapel and the Royal Stables.

It’s the only building in the world that houses all three of a country’s branches of Government - the Executive Power, Legislative Power and Judicial Power.

Gefion Fountain ⛲️- situated on the harbour front, it features a large group of oxon pulling a plough and being driven by the Norse Goddess Gefjon. The fountain was donated by the Carlsberg Foundation to the city of Copenhagen on the occasion of the brewery’s 50 year anniversary.

The Little Mermaid 🧜‍♀️ - the sculpture is displayed on a rock by the waterside at the Langeline promenade. It’s a bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen and depicts a mermaid becoming human. Based on the 1837 fairytale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, the small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and has been a major tourist attraction since its unveiling in 1913.

In recent decades it has become a popular target for defacement by vandals and political activists.

City Hall Square - a public square located in the city centre, its large size and central location and affiliation with the City Hall makes it a popular venue for a variety of events, celebrations and demonstrations. City Hall Square is located at the site of Copenhagen’s old hay market.

Frederiks Church ⛪️ - popularly known as The Marble Church, is an Evangelical Lutheran church situated in the Frederiksstaden district.
The church was designed in 1740, this particular district was intended to commemorate the 300 years jubilee of the first coronation of a member of the House of Oldenburg. The foundation stone was set by King Frederick V on October 31, 1749.
It has the largest church dome in Scandinavia.

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22/03/2025

A friend and I are here in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 for an extreme day trip (ok we are not quite so rock ‘n’ roll - we are staying the night too)

In order to get around and see as much as possible we booked the Hop on Hop off bus, the first place we wanted to see was Nyhavn, which is a vibrant, historic waterfront district in Copenhagen. It’s particularly well known for its colourful 17th and 18th century buildings and canal - it’s a popular tourist destination and particularly today with the sun shining, every restaurant was full to bursting point.

We were lucky though, we managed to find a sunny spot in No 41. I had the traditional Danish open sandwiches which consisted of prawn and egg, smoked salmon and chicken and apple, they were yummy 😋.

From here you can jump on a boat and have a ride down the canal, there are several companies offering this.

❓What is the meaning of Nyhavn❓

It means New Harbour, it was once a bustling commercial port where ships from around the world 🌍 docked.
The streets were alive with pubs, sailors, artists and ladies of the night!

21/03/2025

Another wonderful new client gained this week, she’s going to be experiencing something completely different in August - the Mount Hagen Festival in Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬

She’ll be spending 9 days on this special tour partaking in the festival celebrations and immersing herself in traditional Papua New Guinean life.

❓What is the Mount Hagen Festival❓

It’s a vibrant celebration of Papua New Guinea’s 🇵🇬 rich cultural heritage. Every August tribes from all over the Western Highlands Province come together. It was first staged in 1961, before Papua New Guinea’s independence as an event to unify warring tribes but since then the show has become more of an attraction for local and international tourists to witness the fabulous sight of thousands of painted warriors dancing, singing to the beat of the drums 🪘.

20/03/2025

🚌NEW COACH TRIP🚌

The iconic music 🎶 of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf will once again shake the stage, delivering an electrifying journey that will ignite your love for rock like never before.
This heart pounding experience with a powerhouse eight-piece live band on stage, delivers a new production transporting you from Ravens bedroom to the underground world of the lost in a visual feast that pushes the boundaries of live theatre.

Meat Loaf’s anthems will be brought to life, these include I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), Paradise By The Dashboard Light, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, Dead Ringer For Love, and of course Bat Out of Hell.

Brace yourself for a legendary afternoon of rock ’n’ roll 🎸🤘as 🦇Bat Out of Hell: The Musical explodes back onto the stage!

Back for a limited time (just two weeks) I have only managed to secure 26 tickets, so you best be quick……

17/03/2025

Dubai 🇦🇪- what did I discover?

It’s a city that loves to break records. From the tallest building in the world to the largest shopping 🛍️ mall.

Dubai is home to some of the most amazing and impressive feats of engineering and construction 🏗️.

Did you know that Dubai holds over 425 Guinness World Records.

In 2017 Dubai was the city that had the most buildings that were 300m or taller - 21 in fact, today they have 28 buildings.

A few records ……..

Burj Khalifa - featured this in a previous post, holds multiple world records.

Dubai Mall - Largest Shopping 🛍️ Mall.
It has four storeys, a total interior floor area of 548,127 m2, 1,200 retail establishments and more than 160 food and beverage outlets. Among the attractions in the mall are an aquarium, an Olympic sized ice rink, 22 screen cinema 🎦, VR park, Souk Al Bahar and Dubai Fountain.

Dubai Aquarium - Largest Aquarium in a Mall.
It is 51 metres long, 20 metres wide, and 11 metres high and holds 10 million litres of water 💦. It is home to over 140 species, including more than 300 sharks 🦈 and rays. In addition to viewing it from the mall, visitors can experience a 48 metre walk through tunnel, take a glass bottom boat ride, or even go cage snorkelling 🤿 and diving.

Ain Dubai - Largest and Highest Observation Wheel.
Move over London Eye, the Dubai Eye is bigger and better - it measures 250m (820ft) from the ground to the top of its rim, which is 80m (262ft) taller than the previous record holder. It provides views across Dubai Marina and is stunning at night with its laser lights. It has 48 cabins that can accommodate 40 people and rotates fully in 38 minutes.

Dubai Miracle Garden - Largest Floral Arrangement.
The largest floral structure is shaped as an Emirates Airbus A380, its dimensions are 72.95m x 78.34m x 21.98m. The Miracle Garden occupies over 72,000 sq m and features over 50 million flowers 🌹 and 250 million plants 🪴. It is home to a variety of flower sculptures, including a giant teddy bear 🧸, a heart shaped castle 🏰, Smurf’s village and a replica of the Burj Khalifa.

Dubai Frame - Largest Frame 🖼️
It is an observatory, museum and monument, that measures 50.23 m tall and 95.53m wide. It has a gift shop and a cafe and is located in Zabeel Park and offers panoramic views of the city.

11/03/2025

After sending many a client to Dubai and in particular a very loyal client twice to Dukes The Palm, I thought it was about time that I experienced it myself.

Dukes The Palm is a 5⭐️ hotel 🏨 located on Palm Jumeirah and has its own private beach and fantastic panoramic views of the Arabian Gulf and the impressive skyscrapers 🏙️ of Dubai Marina.

There is a bit of a wow factor when you step into reception, right in the middle is the most stunning chandelier with a beautiful display of fresh flowers 💐 which were changed during our stay.

Check in was very easy, we had paid for the extra night so we would be able to access our rooms as soon as we checked in as our flight landed 🛬 at 07:10 and normal check in time is 15:00, so it was lovely being able to change straight away into shorts 🩳 and head out to the beach. We could also participate in breakfast too, and because we had missed an evening meal the night before we were able to use this against a lunch in the Great British Restaurant.

It has a lovely large infinity pool 🏊 and a lazy river which was unfortunately out of action as it was undergoing maintenance - Mumma Parr was a little disappointed with this as she was looking forward to floating round on a rubber ring. It is due to reopen next week.

Beach and pool towels are provided so no need to pack any. Housekeeping chaps on the beach will show you to your sunbeds and pop your parasol 🏖️ up for you.

Watersport’s are also available on the beach for an extra fee.

There is a children’s club, so the little ones can be entertained whilst you have a bit of relaxation.

On the 14th floor of the hotel is a hidden gem - an indoor pool. There is also a 24/7 gym which features state of the art equipment.

WiFi is free.

The hotel has Dukes Bar which is situated up on a mezzanine, with direct access from the Reception, you can enjoy exclusive cocktails 🍸 and they have ‘Happy Hour’ every day from 13:00 to 18:00. Open every day from 11:00 to 02:00.

Cigar & Whisky 🥃 Lounge offers a wide selection of finely crafted ci**rs with smooth whisky’s. Open every day from noon to 01:00

Champagne 🍾 and Tea Lounge
You are welcomed into a traditional British 🇬🇧 space that is ideal for afternoon tea and special occasions. Open every day from noon to 01:00.

❓A few questions answered❓

What are the check in and out times?
Check in is at 15:00 and check out is at 12:00

Is the hotel suitable for guests with disabilities?
Yes, it is incredibly wheelchair friendly, there are ramps from the outside terrace and ramps to the pool area. Lifts 🛗 to all floors and restaurants.

Does the hotel offer food and drink options for guests with food intolerances?
Yes it does

Every single member of staff we encountered were extremely friendly and helpful, from housekeeping on the beach to security out the front.

A real plus is that you do not need to take any travel adapters as our British plugs fit!

I thoroughly recommend this hotel 🏨 and cannot wait to stay again.

Box River Travel Boutique