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Originally Posted by SASless
A few choruses of "Alice's Restaurant" and we may have the makings of a Revolution here!
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The Sharrow Bay at Ullswater charges a £50 landing fee for helicopters. This applies regardless of why you are there, so if you are flying in privately to stay or with guests to stay, you fork over £50 in addition to a room rate which, for an English hotel, is pretty expensive.... Ditto if you fly in for a cup of tea.
No charge for carparking though....
There are other hotels that accept helicopters on Ullswater, for free. Guess where I am NOT staying then - it is the principle of being charged for flying in rather than the amount (although £50 is not exactly cheap either).
No charge for carparking though....
There are other hotels that accept helicopters on Ullswater, for free. Guess where I am NOT staying then - it is the principle of being charged for flying in rather than the amount (although £50 is not exactly cheap either).
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Originally Posted by Southern Cross
The Sharrow Bay at Ullswater charges a £50 landing fee for helicopters. This applies regardless of why you are there, so if you are flying in privately to stay or with guests to stay, you fork over £50 in addition to a room rate which, for an English hotel, is pretty expensive.... Ditto if you fly in for a cup of tea.
No charge for carparking though....
There are other hotels that accept helicopters on Ullswater, for free. Guess where I am NOT staying then - it is the principle of being charged for flying in rather than the amount (although £50 is not exactly cheap either).
No charge for carparking though....
There are other hotels that accept helicopters on Ullswater, for free. Guess where I am NOT staying then - it is the principle of being charged for flying in rather than the amount (although £50 is not exactly cheap either).
I was thinking more of the `gratis` side of things, most of the leisure industry has decided to charge helos instead of using them to attract customers, i`m thinking towards family type farms, B & B`s that have small numbers of guests but who have them staying around the farm"because a helicopter is flying in later", i remember as a lad how seeing a helicopter up close got me interested in flying
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So inflation alive and well at Sharrow Bay then. I can understand and accept the principle of needing to pay to use the farmer's land - I wasn't aware of the legal ownership of the land ...
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Can't understand anywhere that charges helos. they add that 'endorsement of rich folk' esp in the uk. At a Med hotel, you tie up your sunseeker, in the UK, you land your helo.
Best free marketing there is. The Grand Island at Ramsey, about 800 yds down the road from me, always looked a million dollars when it had five or six machines on the lawn for TT - but people eventually realised it was pants. Shame really
Best free marketing there is. The Grand Island at Ramsey, about 800 yds down the road from me, always looked a million dollars when it had five or six machines on the lawn for TT - but people eventually realised it was pants. Shame really
