Chester Zoo Promotion for North Wales Hotels

LDS Tourism Services are extremely pleased to report that they are working with Chester Zoo on an exciting and innovative promotion. Chester Zoo are offering 3 for 2 admission vouchers and offers to celebrate Cheshire's Year of Gardens.

The promotion is designed to reward guests for their booking by enhancing their stay with a 3 for 2 offer at Chester Zoo. The offer is being made available through attractive, reversible door hangers designed to be displayed in guest's rooms on arrival.

We have already approached a number of establishments across North Wales with a view to participating in this new promotion. Currently the offer is only available to accommodation providers in North Wales and the vouchers are valid until 24.10.08.

Chester Zoo is always developing as an attraction and has plenty of reasons for people to visit year after year.

• The cheetahs have returned to the zoo...view them from the new Bat Bridge!


• Zulu Dancers - Back by popular demand to entertain visitors.


• A brand new Butterfly house is opening Autumn 2008.


• Pumpkin Festival - Saturday 25th October - Sunday 2nd November.


• The return of the spectacular Frost Fair 27th November -11th January.


• Orchid Festival - February 2009 with a chance to meet the horticulturists.

If you are an accommodation provider in North Wales who hasn't already been contacted, then please feel free to e-mail us with your details and the number of door hangers required. We are starting deliveries this week, so the sooner we get your order the sooner you'll have the door hangers. Don't miss out on this opportunity to boost local tourism and enhance the stay of your guests!

As a thank you, all order forms will be entered into a prize draw to win a family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) to Chester Zoo on a day of their choice plus a cuddly toy of their choice to take back to the hotel.

Tatton Park Biennial 2008

We were extremely excited to learn of Tatton Park's Biennial 2008 - a new contemporary art event for the UK. To be launched during Cheshire’s Year of Gardens ‘08 and supported by various bodies, it will be staged from May to September 2008.

A valued client of LDS Tourism Services, Tatton Park is an impressive historic estate which receives in the region of 750,000 visitors every year - all of whom come to enjoy its Georgian Mansion, Tudor Old Hall, award winning gardens and 1930s rare breeds farm. The 1,000 acre deer park is home to Red and Fallow deer and the estate also boasts speciality shops, adventure playground, restaurant and a year-round events programme.

The 2008 Biennial supports the work of emerging and mid-career artists through a commissioning process that reveals the history of the Park and is a launch pad for future events that will further understanding of exceptional artistic practice within the laboratory of this National Trust property.

With up to 6 semi-permanent works, 12 evolving commissions and a substantial programme of tours, performances and talks that lend further depth to the grounds, the Biennial will reflect the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Tatton Park. A specially curated film programme and an active Education and Access programme will extend to major cities, taking in a range of new visitors through specially devised and targeted schemes. A full-colour publication with commissioned essays, a novella by Giles Waterfield and an artist’s multiple will be produced for the opening.

The year long Cheshire Year of Gardens ‘08 has a crisp start at Chester Zoo’s Frost Fair in January 2008, unveiling the lavish flowers beds of Cheshire which will be making surprise appearances in Liverpool, at international gateways and at the RHS Flowers Shows.

The programme line up for the year is bubbling with a mixture of music, art, theatre, sport and food and drink events at major garden locations, including Lyme Park, Chester Zoological Garden, Arley Hall and Gardens, Jodrell Bank, Ness Gardens, Cholmondeley Castle Gardens, Capesthorne Hall, Gawsworth Hall and Norton Priory.

Cheshire can boast some of the finest gardens in the world, many of international importance; others are modest or even tiny expressions of someone’s urge to create a beautiful corner of the landscape. Whether part of an historic estate or simply colourful attractions in their own right, these stupendous bouquets are estimated to attract an additional 300,000 visits for the 08 celebrations.