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HOME AT FIRST’s Mid-Wales cottages are in the midst of superb scenery to the north and the south of the Black Mountains, near the English border towns of Hay-on-Wye (to the north) and Abergavenny (to the south). The nearby Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons National Park are scenic Welsh wilderness playgrounds ideal for exploration on foot, on horseback or by car.
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• NORTH of the Black Mountains HOME AT FIRST’s cottages are in or close to Hay-on-Wye, a unique town astride the English border known for its wonderful collection of second-hand bookshops. Besides more than two dozen bookshops, Hay offers several restaurants and pubs, and other stores. At the end of May Hay hosts the remarkably successful Hay Festival, which brings up to 80,000 visitors to discuss art, politics, literature, and other cerebral subjects. At all times of year Hay-on-Wye offers great short and long distance walking, golf, horseback riding, and adventure sports including white water rafting and mountain biking. Hay's location makes it within |
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easy day-trip reach of all of Mid-Wales (including the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons National Park), much of South Wales, portions of North Wales, as well as divers parts of Western England, including the Northern Cotswolds, Shakespeare Country, Ironbridge in Shropshire, even Oxford. |
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• SOUTH of the Black Mountains HOME AT FIRST's cottages are in or near Abergavenny, a large Welsh town on the edge of the Black Mountains village with excellent services, including many restaurants, shops, and a passenger rail station. Abergavenny's location provides great access to all most of South Wales (including the Blaenavon World Heritage site and Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff, and the great Caerphilly Castle) all of Mid-Wales (especially the Usk Valley, the Black Mountains, and Brecon Beacons National Park), as well as parts of Western England including the Cotswolds, Bath, Bristol, Oxford, and Berkeley Castle. Activities in this region are as endless as the mountains seem to be: |
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horse trekking,
golf, castle exploration, cycling,
walking, climbing, canal cruising, shopping for crafts at open-air
markets, riding historic railways, discovering the early Industrial Age.
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See a sample HOME AT FIRST lodging in the ABERGAVENNY region: |
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Search for King Arthur and the Druids here and you’ll find them. Our Mid-Wales locations offer great access to Shakespeare country and the Cotswolds, easy day trips away from pretty Wales on the English side of the border. Another secret — the Welsh may be the friendliest people in Britain.
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open-air
markets full of Welsh crafts, coal tipples from the
industrial age, coastal resorts well-known and anonymous, ancient Celtic traditions,
golf at classic seaside links and
challenging
parkland courses, and the mysteries of Merlin and Arthur all draw you to Wales. On the
English side of the border Bath, Stratford-on-Avon, the Cotswolds, and Ironbridge,
Shropshire, all are within reach as day trips.
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| PRICES PER PERSON | 2 PERSONS | 3 PERSONS | 4 PERSONS | 5+ PERSONS |
SUPPLEMENTS & REDUCTIONS |
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1 Week FULL PACKAGE 2010 PRICES AS MUCH AS 13.11% BELOW 2009 RATES! |
$1889 |
$1798 | $1699 | $1664 |
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SEASON +$270/prs. |
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ECONOMICS
2010: WIN TWICE WITH TWO-TIERED PRICING:
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| INCLUDES: Round-trip Flights NYC/PHL to LON/MAN + One Week of Lodging & Car Rental. |
LO SEASON $330/prs. |
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Extra Week SAME LODGING 2010 PRICES AS MUCH AS 29.72% BELOW 2009 RATES! |
$489 | $421 | $350 | $320 |
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SEASON +$90/prs. |
| INCLUDES: One Additional Week at the Same Lodging & Car Rental Extension. | |||||
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Extra Week DIFFERENT LODGING 2010 PRICES AS MUCH AS 29.73% BELOW 2009 RATES! |
$530 | $472 | $390 | $367 |
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SEASON +$90/prs. |
| INCLUDES: One Additional Week at a Different Lodging + One-Week Car Rental. | |||||
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1 Week GROUND ONLY ARRANGEMENTS 2010 PRICES AS MUCH AS 18.8% BELOW 2009 RATES! |
$890 | $850 | $760 | $738 |
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SEASON +$110/prs. |
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1 Week LODGING ONLY 2010 PRICES AS MUCH AS 15.07% BELOW 2009 RATES! |
$730 | $650 | $620 | $610 |
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SEASON +$110/prs. |
| INCLUDES: One Week of Lodging, but No Transportation Items. | |||||
| SEASONS: | HIGH SEASON: MAY 28AUG 28, 2010 | MAIN SEASON: All Other Dates |
| LOW SEASON: NOV 1DEC 16, 2009 and JAN 6MAR 28, 2010 | ||
| NOTE: Prices subject to change. |
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Central Highlands, Borders,
Edinburgh, and Glasgow |
Inverness & Northern Highlands | London |
Northwest Wales and England |
Central Ireland |
Counties Cork & Kerry, Donegal & Sligo, and Antrim & Londonderry |
| $30$150 | $40$200 | $30$100 | $20$200 | $100$300 | $120$335 |
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