Spend half-term at Chesil Beach Lodge in Dorset

If you’re looking for somewhere to spend half-term with the children, Chesil Beach Lodge, with its self catering and bed and breakfast accommodation, is the perfect option. There’s lots going on in Dorset in October and of course we’re right by the beach where all children love to explore and run around, whatever the time of year.

From the 13th to 31st October you can visit the Enchanted Floodlit Gardens at Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens – twenty acres of fabulous gardens filled with rare and exotic plants from all over the world. From Friday 29th October to Sunday 31st October there will be Halloween Fun Evenings from 5 to 8pm, with free face painting and free prizes for children in fancy dress.

For older children; how about the Sherborne International Film Festival? This event takes place from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th October. As always, the festival gives you the opportunity to watch films you wouldn’t normally be able to see – an eclectic mixture of the profound, funny, subtle, sad and captivating. Film Certificates range from PG, to 12, 15 and 18.

On the 23rd and 24th of October, the Lyme Regis Museum is open free of charge for Mary Anning Weekend – two days of activities, fascinating exhibitions, and entertaining talks about dinosaurs and fossils. You can also meet the museum’s fossil experts, find out all about local fossils and rocks, and bring your own fossils for identification. In the Family Fun Make and Take

activities you can make your own fossil plaster casts and then take them home.

On Saturday 30th October teenagers can meet Urban Fantasy author Suzanne McLeod at Bridport Arts Centre, as part of the Bridport Literary Festival. “With Halloween looming, come and meet the creator to chill your bones. Suzanne McLeod writes books, hugely popular with teenagers, about seductive vampires, dangerous faeries, eccentric goblins, magic mayhem and murder! Come along if you dare!”

As always, this is just a small selection of what’s on offer in Dorset for half-term, and there’s much more to choose from to keep adults and children of all ages active, entertained and happy over the half term break.

To book your eco friendly half-term holiday in Dorset, please contact us.