If you want to treat someone to a trip to a special venue in London, you may want to know that there are a number of special offers for The View to the Shard, the tallest building in the city!

These special offers are from Virgin Experience Days and some of them involve just a visit to The View from the Shard, whilst others include a cocktail or champagne, or a meal (the meal may be elsewhere so you may need to transfer from The View to the Shard to another venue).

There are 22 options with Virgin Experience Days
involving a visit to The View from the Shard

How about Cocktails at The View from The Shard for Two?
This was £96, but it's on offer for £65, saving you 32%

There's also a Cocktail at The View from The Shard and Three Course Meal at Marco Pierre White’s London Steakhouse Co for Two.
It was £232 and it's now £115, saving 50%!

There's a View from The Shard and
Marco Pierre White Three Course Meal at London Steakhouse Co for Two.
It was £192, and it's now £111, saving 42%

View The View from the Shard options with Virgin Experience Days

Tonight at 8pm on Channel 4, there's London Zoo at Christmas.  The programme shows staff beavering away to give both visitors to the zoo and the animals lots of Christmas magic!

There's lots to do, including wrapping up presents for children to receive from Santa -you can take your child to meet Santa at London Zoo, too, and get into the Christmas spirit.  

 
Buy tickets for your children to meet Santa at London Zoo

How will the animals react to their Christmas treats?   Will they have fun with them, or ignore them?   Watch tigers, meerkats and  squirrel monkeys open their Advent calendars here.

As well as Santa visiting, there's another silverback gorilla coming to the zoo from another zoo in Tenerife - very exciting!  This is a fraught procedure and it has to be right for everyone's sake and safety.  It takes about 30 people to do this.  Kiburi is an extremely strong gorilla... And when will he meet his new family?

And there are still 15,000 mouths to feed, with 388 species of animals who live at the zoo!  These include 3 Sumatran cubs who were born earlier this year too!

Head to Channel 4 here.

Hang out at London Zoo's website to find out more here


By the way, you can meet Santa at Whipsnade Zoo, too!
Find out more here
(They've got a new giraffe arrival to celebrate called Wilfred!)

Channel 4's Christmas at Blenheim Palace is back on our screens on Saturday 2 December 2023 at 7:25

Blenheim Palace is over 300 years old and it takes a lot of work and money to keep Blenheim Palace in good shape.  Indeed, now the aim is to undertake works to the value of £40 million over the next 10 years so that Blenheim can preserve the World Heritage Site.  It’s a Baroque property with an extensive collection of portraits, furniture, sculpture and tapestry.  A charitable trust manages it all, inside and out.

Blenheim welcomes over 900,000 visitors a year - a third of them in the festive season.  And the palace is to become the stage for Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Snow Queen.  Each state room represents different parts of the story. 

It's a vital part of the calendar for securing Blenheim's future - a critical time for the staff as they work to make everything perfect!  With 12 artificial Christmas trees and over 100 more trees to follow, the Collections team need to move the priceless collection out of harm's way - centuries of portraits and Japanese vases.  You wouldn't want to drop one of them.

There’s lots going on at Blenheim Palace over Christmas. 

You could take out an Annual Pass or a Privilege Pass and you can see the benefits of each here. And there are gift vouchers here for these passes.

Blenheim has a five year pledge to combat climate change, which you can find out about here.

Visit Blenheim Palace's website here.

How about...


How about giving a loved one a Blenheim Palace Visit and
Afternoon Tea with Glass of Fizz for Two?
Available for £129 (on offer, it was £144)
through Virgin Experience Days.

There's a great offer on Merlin Thrilling Theme Park Tickets for Two on offer with BuyaGift.co.uk, if you want a day out for people who love thrills and to get the adrenaline pumping.

And it's on offer - it was £89.00 and it's now £59.00,
saving you 34%.
Not only that, you can get a further 15% off
with our exclusive code** that BuyaGift
have kindly given visitors from this website!
The code is AHW2023

Make the most of day entry at one of the following:

- Alton Towers Resort, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
- Chessington World of Adventures Resort, Chessington, West London
- LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort, Windsor, Berkshire
- THORPE PARK Resort, Surrey
- The London Eye, Southbank, South London
- SEA LIFE London, Southbank, South London
- Cadbury World, Birmingham, West Midlands
- London Dungeon, Southbank, South London
- DreamWorks Shrek's Adventure! London
- Madame Tussauds Blackpool, Lancashire
- SEA LIFE Blackpool, Lancashire
- Blackpool Tower Dungeon, Blackpool, Lancashire
- Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire

So there's plenty to choose from for a great day out!   Please note the "What do I need to know" section for booking information etc. 

**Our exclusive code AHW2023 is valid with BuyaGift until 31 December 2023 and it's site wide with BuyaGift even for special offers and 2 for 1s!  (Some products are excluded.)

Visit BuyaGift here.