For some people, the mere mention of a hen or stag weekend can fill them with dread. This week’s star supplier, Cedar Valley, might just solve your final fling conundrum with the offer of a camping experience that will allow you to kick back, relax and enjoy yourself with your best friends without the hassle and battle of the great outdoors.
Glamping – or glamorous camping – has been accruing increasing popularity over the last couple of years. At Cedar Valley, you can collect your favourite people around you in four ginormous safari tents (sleeping up to 24 people in total) with the comfort of running water, a real kitchen and a proper bathroom at your disposal. Gone are the days of queuing for a loo in the dark with a miner’s lamp strapped to your head! This is getting back to nature in a 21st Century way.
Based in Hampshire, not far from Petersfield, Cedar Valley goes that extra mile to make sure that even camp-o-phobes will love the adventure of sleeping beneath the stars. They’ve got real pillows and duvets, a tray of ice to add to your mojito waiting in the freezer and even a herb garden planted outside each tent, so you can pick your mojito mint fresh if you want!
Here at Jacaranda, we completely endorse the idea of having one last blow out before the big day and we think the best way to do that is in opulent surroundings with a host of activities at your finger tips. Being only half an hour away from Goodwood, Cedar Valley makes the perfect summer stag do location for boys with a need for speed. On the other hand, Winchester and its myriad of independent retail therapy opportunities is a short car ride away.
Whether you want to get competitive over clay pigeon shooting, enjoy the beauty of the Bereleigh Estate on a pony trek or simply relax in the sunshine around your own barbecue and camp fire, you can rest assured that you can do it at Cedar Valley. Though we haven’t sampled them ourselves, we’re told that there’s host of superb pubs locally that will cater for your culinary and tipsy delights.
So, to avoid ritual humiliation on the High Street in a night of drunken debauchery, select a simpler way to say sayonara to your single life and have more fun in the process whilst doing so.
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