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A “priceless” 16th century archway has been damaged by a delivery van at Scone Palace in Perthshire.

The Camping & Caravanning Club Site at Scone Palace is within the grounds of the estate owned by the 8th Earl of Mansfield, William David Murray and has recently benefited from the development of 15 new plots for luxury caravan holiday homes after the initial development of 19 plots sold out within 12 months. Scone does not offer lodges for sale but you can find parks in Scotland that do here - Lodges for Sale Scotland >>>.

Scottish TV reported the accident which happened on Monday when contractors arrived to pick up a marquee being used at an event over the weekend. The vehicle drove into the iconic symbol at the approach to Augustinian Abbey, just a short distance away from the caravan park.

Specialist architects have been called in to examine the remains of the monument with plans to reconstruct the structure. Historic Scotland are also offering assistance.

Scone Palace chiefs said they are been left devastated by the accident.

Suzanne Urquhart, chief executive at Mansfield Estates said: “We were notified of the accident shortly before 1pm and took immediate steps to make the area around the archway safe.

“We are currently taking advice from Historic Scotland and have arranged for conservation architects to examine what remains of the archway as soon as is practical, with a view to undertaking a reconstruction project in the longer term.

“Clearly we are devastated that such a priceless monument and important piece of Scottish history has been destroyed in this manner, however we are thankful that neither the driver nor any member of the public was injured”.

Public access to the palace and grounds remains unaffected by the incident, and the caravan park has continued to operate as normal offering caravans for sale and touring and camping pitches for members and non members.

For details on the caravan holiday homes for sale please contact Paul Wane on 07855 475370

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Come and see us at Southport Flower Show

Blue Sky Resorts will be promoting holiday home ownership across 22 parks throughout the UK at the Southport Flower Show, commencing on Thursday August 19th. The annual flower show - the UK’s largest independent flower show – is expected to attract around 80,000 visitors.

The four day event features the very best in horticulture and garden design as well as gourmet foods and entertainment. Visitors will be surrounded by over a million blooms and the stunning Grand Floral Marquee will be packed with spectacular displays from some of the country’s top independent growers.

As well as some inspirational show gardens with unique features, exquisite furniture and plants, the Willerby Vogue Connoisseur presented by Blue Sky will leave visitors buzzing with ideas on how to transform their leisure time.

Blue Sky Resorts, Southport Flower Show

Director of Blue Sky, Jason Caine said in the build up to the show: “Caravan Holiday Homes and Lodges are becoming ever more popular as more and more people return to holidaying within the United Kingdom and Southport offers the ideal opportunity to showcase one of the best caravan holiday homes available to a new audience. Many people don’t realise just how luxurious and comfortable modern caravan and lodge holiday homes can be. I’d urge them to come and be surprised at Southport Flower Show.

We’re enjoying an exceptional year and of all our locations where we have caravans for sale, Scotland has been the most popular. Holiday home ownership has also been popular in Yorkshire and Northumberland.”

Blue Sky Resort is on Stand G36 at Southport Flower Show.

• 2010 Southport Flower Show opening times :

Thursday 19th August – 9am to 6pm

Friday 20th August – 10am to 7pm

Saturday 21st August – 10am to 7pm

Sunday 22nd August – 10am to 5pm

• Advance tickets are £16, on the gate £21. Under 16s are free. Late entry ticket available. For more information or to book tickets please call 01704 547147 or visit www.southportflowershow.co.uk

• Group discounts/incentives are available.

• Victoria Park has wide walkways and a level surface providing access to all parts of the showground. With a great deal of the show under cover it is designed to be enjoyed whatever the weather.

• Southport Flower Show is a registered charity is main fundraising event is the annual show.

Your Opportunity to SAVE £000′s…

Did you know … The Office for National Statistics have reported the fastest drop in British citizens travelling abroad since the 1970s!  People are choosing to stay in the UK to make the very most of their valuable family time – enjoying summer holidays and weekend breaks right here in the UK. 

The sun is definitely shining on our Holiday Parks this August; it’s time to take advantage of the fantastic savings on offer during the month of August in our Sizzling Summer Sale!! Our award-winning Holiday Parks offer owners idyllic locations with peaceful environments for which to relax and fully enjoy the benefits of holiday home ownership.

What better way to enjoy your precious holiday time than in your very own home-from-home set in your idyllic location? We guarantee attention to detail, personable and friendly park staff, thoughtful layout and design & a great choice of luxury caravan holiday homes.

Special Offers are available at the following locations, on a selection of luxury holiday homes:

• The Park of Brandedleys, Dumfries & Galloway, DG2 8RG 
• Springhouse Country Park, Northumberland, NE47 0AW
• Heathergate Country Park, Northumberland, NE46 2NN
• Nostell Priory Holiday Park, West Yorkshire, WF14 1QE
• Spring Willows Leisure Park, Scarborough, YO12 4SB
• Tan-Y-Don Holiday Park, North Wales, LL19 7UT
• Brightwater Lakes Holiday Park, Welshpool, SY21 9DL

For more information on these award winning holiday parks, simply follow the links above. 
For details of the offers available please contact the Holiday Parks directly OR call our friendly team on freephone 0800 111 4050.

Special Offers are available for the month of August – Offer Ends 31st August 2010. 

It appears British citizens agree … there’s no place like home!!

The Office for National Statistics have reported the fastest drop in British citizens travelling abroad since the 1970s!!  During 2009 the ONS recorded 58.6 million trips, compared to 69 million in 2008, with business travel plummeting by a massive 23%.

The report showed that there was a drop of 15% in visits made from the UK abroad for holiday reasons and a drop of 6.5% for visiting friends and relatives. However, holiday-specific trips to the UK by overseas visitors rose in 2009 by 0.5 million from 10.9m in 2008 to 11.4m in 2009.

Blue Sky Resorts are dedicated to helping customers find their perfect home-from-home. A friendly team of expert advisers are ready to help customers find the holiday home that’s right for the whole family to enjoy, on an award-winning  holiday park in the UK.

Your very own home-from-home...

Whether you prefer a retreat by the coast or a picturesque corner of the countryside, the perfect location for your very own holiday home is easier to find than you may think.  Trust this friendly team to guide you through your exciting journey and discover everything you need to know about owning the perfect holiday home on your idyllic location.

Working with a number of independent holiday parks and in partnership with The Camping & Caravanning Club, Bancroft Leisure and Arthur Holgate & Son, there are a number of beautiful locations throughout the UK, including Scotland, Northumberland, the Lake District, Yorkshire, North and West Wales and The Cotswolds.

All of our Parks parks share exquisite standards, special locations, personal and individual customer service, and an attention to detail not necessarily available from larger, commercial organisations.  With a choice of beautiful holiday parks to
choose from we are sure that we offer something for every discerning customer…

Call our friendly team now to request your FREE INFORMATION PACK or to arrange your FREE VIP PARK TOUR. 
Freephone:  0800 111 40 50   OR   Email: enquiries@bluesky-resorts.co.uk

 Secure your holiday memories, safe in the knowledge that you are in control of you and your family’s precious time…

Make the most of the World Cup this year … SCORE with US!   The full time whistle is about to blow on this fantastic offer, visit our parks website to find out more details and arrange your VIP Park Tour.

You do not need to be a massive football fan to qualify for this fantastic offer.  Simply invest in the holiday home of your dreams OR upgrade your existing holiday home during the World Cup and receive your very own Holiday Home Entertainment Package!

Blue Sky Resorts Marketing Manager, Lyn Pearson, successfully completed Edinburgh’s Moonwalk at the weekend.  With the support of her Blue Sky Resorts colleagues, Lyn managed to raise £400 for the charity!

Lyn and her team mates – The Bobby Dazzlers – completed the walk in 6hrs 40mins – a truly great time!!  The first 7 miles were completed at a pace of 15 minutes per mile, this naturally slowed down until around mile 20 … when the sun started rising as they walked along the coast, the walkers were revitalised and stormed the last 6.2 miles in no time at all.  Lyn said “it was really tough at times, but the spirit of all on the walk helped keep us moving.  I had so many generous donations from my colleagues at Blue Sky Resorts, not finishing the full 26.2 miles was no option for me!  I’d like to thank all who donated to this very worthy cause, it is very much appreciated!”

Blue Sky Resorts offer perfect locations for your holiday home throughout the UK.  Whether you prefer a retreat by the coast of a picturesque corner of the countryside, trust Blue Sky Resorts to help find you the perfect location for your very own holiday home.

Blue Sky Resorts are pleased to support local charities and will happily support local charity events in any way that they can.  Springhouse Country Park recently donated a week’s holiday for a local NSPCC Charity Auction night.  The family who won this prize are very much looking forward to experiencing the relaxing retreat that is Spring House Country Park.

Riverview Holiday Park offers a truly inspiration riverside retreat in the Scottish Borders.

Holiday Lodge at Riverview

Situated in the picturesque village of Newcastleton, in the heart of Liddesdale Valley, this park offers a quiet and tranquil setting in the Scottish Borders.  Riverview Holiday Park offers exclusive salmon fishing on the Liddel River within the grounds of the park.  Relax, unwind and enjoy country walks through the surrounding forests or something a little more energetic; golf, cycling and horse riding are all within easy access of the Park.

Holiday Lodges here provide the perfect location for you to relax and unwind, the Lodges really do offer home from home luxury.

The village of Newcastleton is with easy reach from the park, here you will find all the essential amenities of a small village including local shops, post office, hotels, pubs, health centre, swimming pool and a very popular coffee shop!

In order to fully appreciate this Parks picturesque and tranquil location, call our friendly team today to arrange your viewing.  Call Gerry  on 01387 375042 OR 0800 111 40 50

A BOOM in caravan holidays as the recession bites is paying dividends for family businesses in Scotland.

The credit crunch and collapse of the pound against the euro has prompted a surge of bookings at caravan parks and holiday homes sales as families opt to stay at home.

Many of these businesses are family-owned and have survived downturns through several generations, according to the Scottish Family Business Association.

They include Cairnsmill Caravan Park at St Andrews, run by third generation owner John Kirkcaldy with his sisters Margaret and Caroline, niece Michelle and son Alan.

John’s great uncle originally ran the site as a dairy farm and introduced the first caravans around a reservoir on the land in the early 1950s. Cairnsmill now comprises 200 static caravans and space for around 60 touring caravans.

“Because we’re a family business, we’re prepared to go that extra mile to keep the business moving, and that often means rolling up our sleeves and doing more work ourselves rather than relying on employees,” John explains.

“You’ve got to be pretty resilient and be prepared to anything, including working late at night, early in the morning and at weekends. It’s not a nine to five job which doesn’t suit everyone.” John says his father also believed in trying to meet people’s budgets rather than running the business for pure profit. This tradition has helped to keep prices competitive.

Normally Summer bookings wouldn’t start until after Easter, but the park’s phone is already ringing off the hook.

“We’re already taking bookings for July, August and September,” John says. “We usually get bookings about a month in advance, but now they’re happening at least two months’ in advance. Enquiries have definitely gone up.”

The Caravan Club recently announced that advance bookings are up 40% on last year. The Camping and Caravanning Club has also reported a 15% rise in advance bookings and expects new member signings in 2009 to rise above last year’s 53,000.   

The British Holiday and Home Parks Association tells a similar tale.

Colin Fraser, BHHPA chair in Scotland and owner of Colin Fraser Park Home Estates, says: “The credit crunch is good and bad news for the industry. Sales of caravan holiday homes are flat, which is bad news for the manufacturers, several of whom have gone into liquidation. I am very concerned tat once sales pick up we will not have a big enough manufacturing base to meet demand. Holiday parks are seeing more people coming in with touring caravans, motorhomes, tents and bookings for hiring caravan holiday homes are well up. I know that touring parks and caravan holiday home parks are going to do very well this year.”

Colin bought his first caravan 46 years ago for £95 which he rented out at Banff Links. He bought his first park 37 years ago and has never looked back. He now owns 6 parks in Aberdeen with 320 residential pitches and 67 touring pitches. His son, Kris, owns the holiday park at Buckie which has 70 caravan holiday homes and touring pitches.  

“I think the family ownership element does give the industry more resilience, because people treat the business as their baby in a way,” Colin says. “If you’re in the caravan industry, it’s something you enjoy and get great job satisfaction from. It’s not a job where you wake up in the morning and wish you weren’t going to work. Owners are proud of their caravan holiday parks. The grading of parks is done by VisitScotland ranks about 75% of them as either four or five star. So they’re kept in really good order. Many also have conservation awards from David Bellamy, with those involved having either Silver or Gold Awards.”

Competing at the quality end of the leisure market, Scotland’s 200-plus holiday parks – most of which are family owned and managed – are major players in generating the country’s annual £4.5 billion tourism income. The sector also helps to sustain many of Scotland’s estimated 200,000-plus jobs which are tourism related.

Martin Stepek, chief executive of the Scottish Family Business Association, recently gave a presentation to members of the BHHPA and believes deep family roots can help businesses survive, evolve – and thrive – through multiple downturns and generations.

“Nearly all of these holiday parks emerged from land-owing farmers, themselves family businesses, who were looking to use their land more productively,” Stepek says. “A lot of the owners now represent third, fourth and fifth generations who have lasted through as many recessions. Holiday parks came into their own after the war when people were just emerging from poverty and could really only afford a holiday for the first time. Now they’re enjoying a new resurgence as people cut back on costs and opt to stay at home rather than going abroad.”

“With improved access to education, training and professional advice specific to their distinctive model of business, we believe family firms will be the key to a strong, stable, and ethical foundation for Scotland’s economic recovery and this is where we should be investing our economic development strategies and resources.”

2009 has started with plenty of doom and gloom in the news as the Government wrestles with the problems created by the weak pound and financial chaos caused by the difficulties faced by the banking system. Amidst all this though you might be surprised to discover that interest in owning a caravan or lodge in the UK is higher than in any time since Blue Sky sold it’s first holiday home back in 2004.

We are finding that an increasing number of our customers, many of who are either retired or semi-retired are looking to caravan or lodge holiday home ownership as a way of getting value from teh money they have saved over the years.

Interest rates are at their lowest ever and that means that savings are actually losing money when inflation is taken into account and for those with tracker mortgages they are many hundreds of pounds better off.

The cost of traveling to the Continent or America is becoming prohibitive with the exchange rate increasing the cost of being abroad by 30% in the last 6 months and even with the ”cheap” airlines, flights to Spain often come up to over £150 per person once all the charges are taken into account.

So people who once thought that a holiday home on the “Costas” might be ideal are realising that something closer to home might be the answer – something they can use often, and that the family can take advantage of too.

And Blue Sky offers luxury lodges and caravans for sale all over the country and in some of the finest countryside the UK has to offer – from Inverness to South West Wales, the Cotswolds, Northumberland, The Lake District, Scotland and Yorkshire – there is something for every discerning customer looking for that perfect retreat!!

It might be that 2009 is actually the perfect time for you to look at buying your own caravan holiday home or luxury lodge. The standards of the parks and the accommodation have never been higher and this kind of holiday home offers fabulous value for money when compared to investing in overseas property, or other types of “use once” holidays (hotels etc.)

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