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16 May 2017
The UK's biggest inflatable Aquaglide aqua park has opened at Tattershall Lakes Country Park in Lincolnshire, which is owned by pioneering UK holiday village operator Away Resorts.
The Aquaglide aqua park includes a floating assault course, a trampoline, a human catapult, a cyclone, Kaos, which is a big pillow that blasts people into the air, and the UK's only volley ball court on water.
Popular with kids of all ages, the Aquaglide park is a welcome addition to the other water sports available at Tattershall Lakes, which include cable wakeboarding, kayaking, paddleboarding, waterskiing and jetskiing.
On dry land during May half-term at Tattershall Lakes, there is a whole programme of activities, including: hoverboarding; landzorbing; target archery; raft building; cheerleading; laser tag; Balanceability bikes; body zorbing; waterwalkerz; and cycling.
For more sedate activities for younger members of the family, there's Pirate Play, where children learn all about pirates and design pirate swords, hats and treasure maps, as well as walk the plank.
In the Superhero Academy, kids can turn themselves into their very own superhero, with superhero training, games and races.
Among the many other activities are making your own lava lamps and mad scientist workshop.
All of the indoor activities take place inside the park's new £4 million entertainment centre, which also includes a swimming pool, hot tubs, gym and a spa. The swimming pool can be hired out by families after 6pm every day.
Accommodation
Accommodation at Tattershall Lakes includes the brand new Tribeca Village. Away Resorts CEO is passionate about reinventing the humble caravan and has worked with holiday home manufacturer ABI to create the Tribeca project, a groundbreaking 'boutique-style' caravan.
Taking its inspiration from the loft-house apartment in the New York neighbourhood of the same name, the Tribeca has a central, light-filled, airy living space with the adults' and children's bedrooms either side. The open-plan kitchen and living area has an apartment feel: with timber-effect walls; a 55-inch screen; American-style fridge/freezer; and panoramic bifold doors.
The adults' bedroom has boutique hotel features, such as a flatscreen TV, sumptuous bedding, and a stand-alone bath-tub, as well as a separate ensuite. The children's bedroom has bunk-beds complete with dens underneath, screens and power points for charging their tech, and astro-turf-inspired flooring.
No other holiday park has any caravans like this in their fleet. The timber-effect walls and huge windows create a jungle feel and the astro-turf-inspired flooring carries on the theme of bringing the outside in.
The Tribeca also has its own deck, for watching the world go by on, glass in hand, mind switched off, and some come with a private hot tub.
How much? Seven nights in a Tribeca that sleeps six leads in at £1,353 from 26 May.
To book: awayresorts.co.uk
At the other parks
Away Resorts has five other parks, including the luxury Sandy Balls Holiday Village in the New Forest, Whitelciff Bay Holiday Park on the Isle of Wight, Mersea Island Holiday Park in Essex, Mill Rythe Holiday Village on Hayling Island and Barmouth Bay Holiday Park in North Wales.
Launching this spring at Mill Rythe with active families firmly in mind is a new high ropes course that will give children and adults the opportunity to climb up high and then zipwire back down to the ground.
The high ropes course will complement the existing programme of activities for all the family at Mill Rythe, which includes: hoverboarding; landzorbing; target archery; raft building; cheerleading; laser tag; Balanceability bikes; body zorbing; waterwalkerz; geocoaching; and metal detectors.
During the evening, Mill Rythe has a packed programme of entertainment for all the family with stage shows and discos for children in the evening, followed by live bands, cabaret and DJ sessions for the adults later on.
How much? A three-night, half-board break from 26 May costs from £139 per adult, £70 for children aged 8-15-years-old and £25 for children aged 2-7. Under 2s are free.
To book: awayresorts.co.uk
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Notes to editors
About Away Resorts:
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Away Resorts is a private equity-backed UK holiday park operator, with a head office in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
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Away Resorts was founded in 2008 by third-generation holiday park entrepreneur Carl Castledine when he purchased Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight. Carl's grandfather ran Britain's first holiday camp, at Caister in Norfolk, which opened in 1905, more than 30 years before Billy Butlin's first park.
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The UK holiday park operator Away Resorts now owns six parks across England, all of which are very different in personality.
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Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight is the operator's coastal escape, Tattershall Lakes is the lakeside retreat, Mill Rythe Holiday Village is the entertainment-focused resort, Barmouth Bay is located on the north Wales coast with easy access to Snowdonia and the park's newest acquisition is Mersea Island, Away Resorts' island escape just off the Essex coast and Sandy Balls Holiday Village is a forest based park set in the New Forest.
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CEO Carl Castledine aims to pioneer a new holiday park model with a pricing strategy that has a holiday option to suit every budget. The parks are constantly evolving introducing new activities and entertainment every season. For example for summer 2017, the park has teamed up with the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts to host a summer stage school.
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The leading UK holiday park operator has made one of the industry's biggest ever investments in a single UK holiday park, with the redevelopment of its Tattershall Lakes park in Lincolnshire.
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The £8m Tattershall Lakes project is part of a significant £12m investment programme across the Away Resorts portfolio of five locations, a strategy implemented when leading mid-market private equity rm LDC backed the secondary buyout of the business in April 2015.
