Jay m A

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Its a present for my Dad's 60th birthday

For the last 5 years he's been driving Range Rovers, Shoguns etc but the closest he's got to off road is his gravel driveway

Anyone been on these before? which do you reccommend? Are passengers allowed?

Any advice greatly received

Preferably in the SE England area

Thanks

Justin

ali66

Hi, Boots & Argos do the off road packages, not been on one but their websites have all the details and there are venues across the country so should be something in your area.Why not go completely different & book your Dad a rally day? I'm thinking of that for my Dad-taking the camcorder-mind you he won't thank me for it
Hope it helps,

ali

fitzscoob

pretty sure red letter days do something to, ill have to dig out the brochure.

Brendan Hughes

Sorry about SE England but we went on the Baskerville Challenge, vaguely Hay on Wye area. Commendable. We went via a multi-activity holiday, but you should be able to get there yourself. (Not sure how - tried Google quickly, didn't show the 1-day courses...)

Franx

Land Rover run such events around the country. I have the information about it at home, but I could get it tomorrow - as I'm not there just now

Where abouts are you? I have various magazines that would probably say where the off road centres are; there's actually quite a lot - but not always that noticable

Jay m A

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We're based near Croydon Surrey

I've heard of the Boots / red letter type activities, I was wondering if there were any specialist companies that do this too?

Just wondering about VFM and quality of the day - I doubt he'd like to wait around for 20 others to do the course then have 15mins himself IYSWIM

Any experiences good or bad? how well organised are the Boots / RL days?

Ooooh let see where google takes me

Thanks

Franx

I shall have a look tonight

Brendan Hughes

Jay - bingo

It's a whole day, and these guys train the pros. Baskerville Hall is not such a bad place either.

Jay m A

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Thanks Brendan, looks really good.

Brendan Hughes

We were really pleased with it, they are really competent - and (perhaps as it was something like 4 January) it was just us two and the instructor for the whole day. Vaguely 100 quid (maybe 80, maybe 120) 8 yrs ago, but that's without lodging. You won't do more than 10mph, but you won't want to! Guy used a 1948 Landy, bashed to hell, brilliant. Said they trained Camel Trophy people there. They're about your Dad's age too

reas334

i've done a couple of these and there really good fun. we went to east grinstead in kent on a red letter 4 x 4 day. it was good fun and you got to drive different types of 4 x 4 vehicles.

the best one we did was at rockingham (near leicester) my dad got it free when he bought his freelander. (i'm sure anyone can go though) this was a really interesting and challanging course and lasted a good few hours.

refreshments were provided and the instructers really knew there stuff. well worth looking into.

Ray_li

try this

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=312363

Jay m A

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Thanks for the pointer, I'll consider it

Chrisgr31

Who moved East Grinstead whilst I wsn't looking? Last time I checked it was in West Sussex!

I went to a place near East Grinstead at Ashurst last year called Leisure Pursuits, they do off road driving there. We actually did the day mix of activities and had a great time.

Franx

Also in Surrey;

Overland Persuits
AbingerCommon
Surrey
www.overlandpursuits.co.uk
01306731530

Withorn corporate entertainment
Withorn farm
Coumbe land
Wormley
Surrey
01428682887

All terrain services
nr Swansea
01792862669

& the Land Rover Experience:
http://www.landrover.com/gb/en/Exper...of_Centres.htm

That's all the ones I can find around there.

Jay m A

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Booked him on the Overland Pursuits stage 1+

Thanks Franx for the pointer

Thanks to all who posted

Franx

Have fun

suprabeast

They do 4x4 stuff at Bluewater, Kent

and i thought they did stuff like that at Brands Hatch too