Thornton Hall Golf and Spa Break  
     
 
   

 
     
 

This Four-Star family-owned hotel is set in beautiful gardens in one of the most attractive villages in Wirral, Thornton Hough, former seat of the Leverhulme family. They have built up a fine reputation for service and hospitality, providing excellent food in the award-winning restaurant and comfortable accommodation in a choice of rooms.

The Health Club, with its magnificent 20m heated indoor pool, is available to residents and conference delegates. Its fitness suite has the latest hi-tec equipment, twinned with spa-pool, steam and sauna rooms, and exterior hot tubs. The new Times Restaurant, located in the Health Club, offers a less formal dining experience.

The Club's Beauty and Hair spas provide a stunning selection of full-body treatments using the best products. Full or half-day all-inclusive sessions are always available.

Thornton Hall was built in the mid-1800s and was the home of the Bamford family, Liverpool shipping magnates. It retains some of the original decoration, including oak carvings and the ceiling of the Italian Room (now the main restaurant) in leather with inlaid mother-of-pearl.

Included in your stay are these two half day spa treatment packages:

Spirit Reviver

  • Holistic aromatherapy back, face & scalp treatmen
  • Jessica deluxe manicure
  • Jessica deluxe pedicure
  • Revitalising eye treatment
  • Light lunch at The Times Bistro
  • 4 hours

Detox & De-stress

  • Detoxifying algae wrap
  • Aromatherapy facial
  • Aromatherapy back, neck & shoulder massage
  • Aroma scalp massage
  • Light lunch at The Times Bistro
  • 3 hours

 

  
 

Includes

5 nights’ luxury accommodation (Thursday - Monday) including full English breakfast each day
Four rounds of golf for 4 people at:

  • Hillside
  • Royal Liverpool
  • Formby
  • Hesketh

Rental MPV for five days
Rate based on 4 people sharing twin rooms
Two half day beauty retreats (see above)

  
     
  SUGGESTIONS  
  To enhance your stay....  
     
  Sightseeing and Shopping  
 

The most famous destination in Cheshire is Roman Chester. With 2,000 years of history, this is one of Europe’s top heritage cities – and it is easy to see why!  Chester boasts a complete circuit of walls, sections of which date back to Roman times, as well as a Norman Cathedral. The famous Rows, unique two-tiered galleries built in the traditional black and white ‘magpie’ style, contain a wide range of shops selling goods from antiques to high fashion. In fact the city is one of the top retail centres in the UK, boasting large branches of national stores and attractive shopping malls. Other attractions include the beautiful River Dee, the recently restored Grosvenor and Cheshire Military Museums, a Roman Amphitheatre, the beautiful Grosvenor Park and the city’s famous Roodee Racecourse.

Manchester is the retail capital of the North West and it has been described as the place to come for top fashion in the UK. Designer outlets, high-street chains, boutiques, specialists, markets... whatever you need or want, you'll find it in the city. Liverpool city centre boasts some of the largest, big name High Street stores in the country, while Albert Dock houses some of the cities trendiest stores together with a number of art shops and gallery outlets.

 
     
  Theatre  
 

Manchester has a wide and varied selection of theatres dating back to the 19th century, such as the impressive Opera House and Palace Theatre, to the Modern design of the 1990's Bridgewater Hall. Liverpool has more museums and art galleries than any other UK city outside London and has long played a leading role in the formation of the world’s popular music culture since the groundbreaking days of the 1960s.

  
     
 
GOLF
 
 
 
Hillside
  
 

There are eight Top100 seaside courses between St Annes and Liverpool and many people believe that this is the best stretch of linksland in the British Isles. It is certainly England’s links golfing Mecca and Hillside is one of the best. It is an underrated gem, separated only by a footpath, but hiding in the shadow of its noble next-door neighbour, Royal Birkdale. The homeward nine is really special and is frequently bracketed alongside Ballybunion because the holes ripple and undulate through the giant dunes.

  
       
 
Royal Liverpool
  
 

The Open Championship returns to Royal Liverpool in 2006. Hoylake, as it is called, has a long and illustrious history of playing host to the Open, and has hosted ten, its first in 1897 and its most recent in 1967. Founded in 1869, Hoylake is the second oldest seaside links course in England – only Royal North Devon is the more senior. Without doubt, Royal Liverpool is a tough links. Only a couple of holes are in the dunes – otherwise there is little protection from the ever-changing wind. It represents a traditional, genuine test of golf and will examine the very best players.

  
       
 
Formby
  
 

. Formby is the prettiest of the eight top-notch links courses located between the seaside town of St Annes and Liverpool.  It is bordered on three sides by pine trees, giving the links a softer, heathland feel than the others. Play Formby when you have been sufficiently beaten up by the other windy links courses around Liverpool and Southport, but don’t be fooled into thinking that this course is easy. Bunkering is strategic, the undulating fairways are very links-like, the rough is strewn with heather and the pines provide an element of park-like protection from the wind.

 
       
 
Hesketh
  
 

Hesketh, the oldest club in town, is at one end of the magnificent long stretch of long sand dunes, nature's gift to Southport which has lead to the creation of several of Britain's greatest courses in just one small area. Established in 1885, Hesketh is part-links, part-parkland, and a mighty challenge with half the holes weaving through the dunes, the other half bordering the Ribble estuary. Professional championship golf has been played on these famous old links from the club's earliest days and today it is regularly used as a final qualifying course when the Open is played at Royal Birkdale