Searles Leisure Resort

A ten-minute walk along the seafront from Searles Leisure Resort reaches the seaside resort of Hunstanton, with cafés and an amusement park along the way; there’s a Sea Life Sanctuary too on Hunstanton’s south promenade to peer at penguins and other marine life. Guests are in prime position from Searles for trips along the cracking north Norfolk coastline, with fishing, nature, coastal villages and RSPB reserves all close to hand. The Coasthopper bus runs from Hunstanton for a more leisurely way to see the coast, or bikes can be hired at Searles for getting about under your own steam. Feeling royal? The Queen’s northern retreat at nearby Sandringham House has a museum, gardens and free access to the country park all year round. It’s one of several historic houses in Norfolk: the award-winning walled garden and herd of white deer at Robert Walpole’s former pad Houghton Hall; a Palladian mansion and museum at Holkham Hall, and National Trust properties including the Jacobean Blickling Hall and waymarked woodland walks at Felbrigg Hall. Follow your nose to the fields and distillery of Norfolk Lavender, also home to a rare breeds animal centre and play park, or take to the car to take in one of the many day trips from Norfolk: the seaside resorts of Skegness, Mablethope and Great Yarmouth; the castle and biggest indoor market in England at Norwich; the deer safari and farm animals at Snettisham Park, and dropping off the Jolly Roger at Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park.