Archives: August 2012

Yesterday saw, for the final time this season, the Summer Games take a short road trip to Cote de Nacre, Normandy. Al Fresco had partnered up with the on-site animation team as part of the “Mini Club” to run a two-hour action packed session.   You could hear the children coming from a distance, singing and [...]

Most people’s idea of an night on holiday is normally a meal in a restaurant, an evening stroll or an early night. Here on the Venetian Riviera we do things a little differently! On the 25th August, campsites all along the coast set up identical firework displays and finally, at 11pm, the sky lit up. [...]

LIDO SANDCASTLE COMPETITION!!! 19th of August 2012. A day to remember for Al Fresco guests on Lido – they will always look back and remember the day they built their sand sculptures at the Venetian Riviera! It was a beautiful day, 37 degrees, sunny, blue skies. Al Fresco headed down to the beach and had [...]

This week I was lucky enough to join the Marco Polo cruise to Venice and it certainly lived up to my expectations! Venice is a city like no other on Earth; replace roads with canals, high street shops for designer boutiques and fish and chips for Italian gelato. During the 30 minute boat trip, the [...]

Daisy is the latest recruit of the Al Fresco Activity Team at Chateau des Ormes. Daisy is a 5 year old Friesian cow, a toy the kids love to have in their sights. The children take it in turns to carry Daisy around the site and to sit on their table as they create all sorts [...]

It’s the middle of August but something spooky is going on at the Al Fresco Kidz Club as Halloween has come early at Château des Ormes, Northern Brittany! The morning session started off with making our spooky costumes, with our capes and masks. Before we knew it the children had turned into vampires, devils, werewolves and Frankenstein’s all ready for ‘Trick [...]

Union Lido’s Top Ten 1. Animations Union Lido has an amazing animations team. The animators are trained in dance, sport and music and will guide you through lots of different activities, whether its midnight yoga, street dance or an evening show. No matter what age or what ability, the animation team will entertain you! Read about the [...]

‘Muuuuum, I’m bored!’ On your average holiday, I’m willing to bet that just as you are starting to relax, this phrase gets thrown at you. Well, at Union Lido, it’s not going to be an issue! MAKE FRIENDS! There are groups for different age brackets where the kids can make friends from all over the world, [...]

I remember vividly the first time I saw Spain. It was July 1972. That moment we crossed the top of the Pyrenees in our red VW Beetle from Southern France and this wide-eyed five-year-old caught sight of the lights of my first Spanish town, is as fresh in the memory today as it was exciting [...]