Felixstowe Beach Holiday Park

Take your green-fingered yearnings along to Suffolk's heritage gardens such as Wyken Hall and the ‘Cornish garden’ at East Bergholt Place, or placate the little sprouts with a trip or three to the many family-orientated attractions and activities in the county: Pleasurewood Hills Family Theme Park and the safari at Africa Alive, both at Lowestoft; not getting the hump at the Oasis Camel Centre in Halesworth or building bodies at the Science Project Discover Centre in Ipswich to name just a few. Saplings will also enjoy getting sandy at Southwold, a Victorian seaside town just along the coast with an award-winning pier and boating trips; closer to home, Felixstowe South and Felixstowe North beaches are less than a mile away. The Felixstowe seafront has a leisure centre with swimming pool as well as cafés and kiosks along its two-mile stretch for sticks of rock, fish and chips, ice cream and other seaside holiday essentials. For the grown-ups, try the award-winning course at Felixstowe Ferry Golf Club, punting on the River Orwell and River Deben, cycling and ambling on the Suffolk Coast Path or getting in touch with historical roots at Suffolk’s castles, forts and ancient burial mounds. This stretch of the Suffolk Heritage Coast is also where to go for wildlife: RSPB reserves are at Orford, Aldeburgh and Minsmere and most of the surrounding countryside is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. For shopping and day trips, Ipswich, Flatford, Hadleigh and Lavenham are just a few of the towns within easy reach, and there’s a stonkingly sized weekly market at Felixstowe.