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This year is my 19th time and it’s still not getting old the tropical cyclone is so good 😊😊

I want to go here I’ve only been to the Sherwood Forest what time of morning

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did you have to pay extra for this or is it in with the price within the dates

This has been reloaded due to me uploading an edited 30fps version instead of the 60fps version. The Winter Forest Lights at Center Parcs, Whinfell Forest, revisited. It is free to enter the main part of the forest lights and it has some little shops and stalls there where you can buy kids books and marsh mellows and things like that. They also have staff dressed up as pixies for the kids. The Winter Forest Lights Festival runs from early January to the last week of February each year and it located by the Lakside Inn/Nature Discovery Area. Note that the refresh rate of the LEDs in the video may sometimes make them look like they are broken/out of sync. They don't appear that way with the naked eye in real life.

I came back from Whinfell last Friday (we did Friday to Friday for my birthday) I watched your videos before I went as it’s been 4 years since we were last at Whinfell. I really didn’t want to leave! And I feel your pain with people who don’t move out the way! Also, thank you for all the hard work in making these videos.

I mistakenly said the red route was 4 miles long on the longest cycle route, but it’s actually 2.4 miles. I’m not sure why I said 4 miles as I know it is 2.4 miles. 🙂

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Have you been to 15 seven pines?

I have Been in 15 seven pines have you

i go each year and im excited for this year + you earned a new sub :)

I had no idea there used to be a rapids at Whinfell (I've never been myself) Any idea when it was removed and why? The rapids is a huge icon for CP I'm surprised they took it away.

I went the weekend before you, the 13th January. Love it at center parcs and thanks for this ambience

Thanks for showing this, I go every year to Whinfell in January and it's lovely. They recently opened the Tropical Cyclone ride so that'll be good.

These two lodges were part of the same booking and we used the ‘come back soon’ discount which gave us £50 off each one. We paid in total £1,062 in total for the two lodges. £64 of that (£32 each lodge) was the optional extra to choose each lodge location on the ‘outer area’. The lodges were £499 each after the £50 discount. Before the discount it would have been £1,162 in total. I stayed between 28th February and 3rd March. Both are located in the side streets opposite the Cycle Centre. One thing I forgot to mention is the light switches are low down in 93 Seven Pines. This may be great for wheelchair users, but if you have toddlers, you’ll be in a disco your entire holiday. This video is not the best and most thorough or professional, but it gives you an idea if you are searching a particular lodge and want to know what it is like inside and its surroundings. Here is the link to the official Whinfell Village maps on the Center Parcs website: www.centerparcs.co.uk/content/dam/centerparcs/maps/download-map/Whinfell-Forest-Village-Map.pdf

I’d already captured a lot in January, so didn’t film much this time around. We stayed in 80 and 93 Seven Pines on a midweek break from 28th February until 3rd March, with videos of those lodges in a separate more detailed video on this channel. They are four-bedroom detached new style woodland lodges. We had an extra family member with us, and given that the three bedroom executive lodge didn’t have enough bedrooms, and we wanted my 2-year-old nephew to have his own room, we opted for two lodges this time, but they only had four bedroom loges available that were almost next to each other when we booked our return. Other options would have placed us on different parts of the village away from each other, so that’s why we had two four-bedroom lodges for five of us. Here’s the official village map for Center Parcs Whinfell Forest. www.centerparcs.co.uk/content/dam/centerparcs/maps/download-map/Whinfell-Forest-Village-Map.pdf #whinfell #centerparcs

This is the longest cycle route on Center Parcs Whinfell Forest, and was on 18th January 2023 at around 4:10pm. It is the red route on the official Center Parcs map which you can find here on the second map down: www.centerparcs.co.uk/content/dam/centerparcs/maps/download-map/Whinfell-Forest-Village-Map.pdf

The time I cycled the red route in this video was 9pm on Wednesday 18th January 2023. This is the proper direction for the red route. In previous cycling videos I missed the turning past the cycle centre as I hadn’t looked at the map properly. Here’s the link to the official Center Parks Whinfell Forest maps. For cycling, look at the second map: www.centerparcs.co.uk/content/dam/centerparcs/maps/download-map/Whinfell-Forest-Village-Map.pdf

This was the first time I have been to Whinfell Forest since 1997, when it was known as Oasis Lakeland Forest Village and the village centre was called the Butterfly Village. Center Parcs bought it out from Rank Organisation in 2001, and changed it's name to Center Parcs Oasis Whinfell Forest, but dropped 'Oasis' from its name in 2006. We stayed from 16th to 20th January on a midweek break. It is cheaper to stay for 4 nights on a midweek break than it is for a 3 night weekend break when the kids are in school. This visit to Whinfell brought back a lot of memories, and the Subtropical Swimming Paradise seems to be largely the same, which is no bad thing, but the wild water rapids that used to go to the outside pool have now gone. I stayed with my Dad, sister and two-year-old nephew in a new style 3 bedroom executive detached lodge, which was 73 Seven Pines, which is located close to the car park and cycle centre and meant that we didn't need to drive to the lodge in all the traffic to unpack, which saved a lot of time, as well as collecting our bikes from the cycle centre across the road. Out and about on the cycle routes, not a lot has changed from how I remember, but I can't remember which lodge I stayed at in 1997, nor what it looked like on the inside. We actually visited twice in 1997, as we were given a second holiday for free because we were supposed to be some of the first holiday makers there, but there were delays in finishing building the site. It eventually opened the month of June I think it was, which is when we visited, and then we returned for our free compensation holiday a couple of months later in the summer holidays. This first visit in January 2023 since 1997 was largely a positive experience and I will be definitely returning again, possibly very soon. The only problems we faced was the wristband keys hadn't been activated, but luckily a passing supervisor let us in with his master key just after 4pm, and then I went down to guest services in the village centre a few hours later to get the wristband keys sorted out. The woman said the date was set to February 2000, so I can only surmise that when we checked in at the arrivals lodge, the person dealing with us was being distracted with phone calls and simply forgotten to activate them. Make sure they activate them when you check in to avoid frustration when you arrive at your lodge, especially if you have babies with you and it is cold. The second problem was the fridge door wouldn't fully close and had a gap in it meaning it was always beeping away because it wasn't cold enough. They'd put the bracket there to hold the fridge in place as a time saving measure to avoid adjusting the feet on the fridge, but for some reason they didn't seem to notice the fridge door would not close. We temporarily changed it a bit so our food didn't go bad. Those two problems aside, the holiday went very well, and I didn't think that it was badly priced considering. We paid £499, plus £32 to chose 73 Seven Pines, which was an 'outer area' lodge, but was still only a few minutes cycling away from the village centre. It is a bit more expensive to choose a lodge on the middle and inner areas. Of course you can just let them allocate you a random lodge of the type you booked and not pay extra for it. We paid for three bikes and a children's trailer, although we were not able to book the children's trailer until after we booked. The Center Parcs website is not the clearest laid out website I have to say, but I managed to book a trailer in advance, although I needn't have worried as there was loads of them piled up at the cycle centre. The three bikes and the children's trailer was a total of £160 for the 4 night midweek break. We never eaten out at the restaurants, but we did do a couple of takeaways which were fine. Nothing fantastic, but they were nice enough and the prices were about the same as Dominos. The prices for things in the ParcMarket were not badly priced, but some things were a lot more expensive in there than they would be in your local store. Some things were price about the same as they were in the super market, like cleaning products. I bought surface disinfectant spray and a box of lemon bakewell tarts for a total of £3 which is reasonable. The stuff that is sold is generally 'Co-op' branded. Some of the other shops were quite expensive like the sweet shop near the entrance to the Subtropical Swimming Paradise. They were selling small bars of Dairy Milk for £5 with different messages on them such as 'To My Wife' etc. Still, people must be buying them at that price, otherwise the price would be lower. Bear in mind that Center Parcs is now cashless, and has been since the pandemic. There are no longer any COVID-19 measures in place in the villages, but they have kept the villages cash free since the pandemic, so make sure you take your debit/credit cards and don't bother taking cash. Here’s the official Center Parcs maps for Whinfell Forest: www.centerparcs.co.uk/content/dam/centerparcs/maps/download-map/Whinfell-Forest-Village-Map.pdf

Here’s the link to the official Center Parcs maps for both the cycling routes and a more detailed one for the direction of travel when arriving and departing in your car to and from your lodge: www.centerparcs.co.uk/content/dam/centerparcs/maps/download-map/Whinfell-Forest-Village-Map.pdf

I say in the video that I am cycling around the red route, which is the longest cycling route, but I didn’t turn left at the car park/cycle centre. I have another upload where I actually went the right way, which I will also be uploading 🙂. The camera I used was an iPhone 13 Pro Max. The time was 1:10pm on Tuesday 17th January. Here is the official Center Parcs Whinfell maps. The top map is more detailed and also shows you the direction to drive your car on arrival and departure. The bottom map shows you the cycle routes and the distances. Whinfell Forest Map: www.centerparcs.co.uk/content/dam/centerparcs/maps/download-map/Whinfell-Forest-Village-Map.pdf

Do you have any old video recording of your old Oasis holiday from 1997?

When I went to Oasis Lakeland Holiday Village with my family when I was a kid in 1999, the lodge I stayed in used to have huge curtains, carpet flooring, a colourful Navajo Native American wall rug and a Pacific northwest American theme in the sitting room. The back door used to have the old Oasis leaf logo on the glass and the lodges number used to be on the front door light.