Half Term Treats in the heart of London’s West End
From free family activity trails at the National Portrait Gallery to a free lantern making workshop at the Royal Academy plus a hands-on pizza class and 4DX cinema experience, half term is all wrapped up in the heart of London’s West End. FREE ARTS TRAILS AND WORKSHOPS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY Come face to face with history at the National Portrait Gallery. Families can meet Henry VIII and Elizabeth I; say hello to...
Need a hotel in the West End? Try the ugliest one we’ve seen… | Thistle Trafalgar Square Hotel Review
A night out in the West End usually necessitates a stay over for us; the last train out to the West Country usually leaves before we’re even out of the theatre! So we either stay, or train out to Basingstoke and then drive the hour and a half on from there. Not ideal! In the end, we usually make a trip out of it and stay the night – come on, if you’re in the West End you might as well, mightn’t you? Besides,...
Wicked Tickets – FREE upgrade offer!
QUICK! If you’ve been pondering over tickets for Wicked for a few months, then now’s the time to stop dithering and book it. Because if you book through LOVEtheatre at the moment there is a really great offer running which cuts your costs! When Dorothy famously triumphed over the Wicked Witch, we only ever heard one side of the story. Gregory Maguire’s acclaimed 1995 novel, ‘Wicked: The Life and Times of the...
Win 6 tickets to the SSE Women’s FA Cup Final at Wembley! #TogetherWeCan
Does your daughter play football? Mine tried it out last Autumn with the SSE Wildcats, and loved it so much; and I’m thrilled that there’s now a real choice for girls to play the sport When I was young, girls could only play football at the park, there was no ‘real’ training for them at all, even though boys clubs abounded. Next month the SSE Women’s FA Cup Final returns to Wembley for a fourth...
Our Pick of the Top 5 January Sales Destinations!
Who doesn’t love a bargain? It might be the time of year that we’re all feeling the squeeze, but it’s also the time of year some of us make our big spends. We might be all worn out on our Christmas spending, but those huge ‘SALE – 70% off!’ flashy red banners lure even the hardest of hearts to have a quick squizz for a bargain. Plus, of course, so many of us have actually been waiting for them...
24hrs for a Family Christmas in the West End – here’s how to do it…
Sauntering along the now-quiet street, feet slightly aching, I watched my two youngest tip their faces skywards, glowing in the light from the beautiful angels flying over them. Hanging on to their Dads hands, eyes still wide and trying to take it all in, I honestly wondered why we’d not done this for years. We were all tired, of course, but it had been one of those days which I just knew would feature in the ‘d’you...