ROOFTREE
GUEST HOUSE
Rooftree Guest House
26 The Broadway
Sandown
Isle of Wight
PO36 9BY
Tel: 01983 403175
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Rooftree Guest House Tel: 01983 403175 |
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Ann is a fully qualified dance teacher in ballet, tap, freestyle, drama, stage and cardiofitness etc
and offers her guests free dance lessons. A great way to keep fit on your holidays!
T.J's Gym & Exercise Studio Fully equipped Gymnasium. Classes in:
Why not come and chill or work out, we have something for everyone. No joining fee, free induction, daily rates available. Fully qualified and friendly staff. Tel: 01983 406123 or 01983 406000 Unit D6 |
There are many activities
that the Isle of Wight has to offer. Please find below a selection of those
that are available.
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Surfing
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Sailing
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Fishing
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| Wight Water offer these activities on Sandown beach, however, bring your own boards and the Island is your beach | The Island has many sailing schools, eg. Wight Water based on Sandown beach offers many water based activities including sailing, canoing and windsurfing. | There are many small fresh water lakes where fishing is available for a small charge. Alternatively you can fish from piers/jetties and from some beaches. |
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Walking
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Cycling
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Paragliding
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| The Islands' countryside makes for beautiful walking trips. With miles of footpaths and bridleways across breathtaking scenery. From the cliffs of Freshwater, the downs to strolling along Shanklin promenade. There is something for everyone. | With new cycle routes in place, the Island offers both amateur and the serious cyclists an excellent opportunity to see the Island. | Not for the faint hearted as it involves jumping off a cliff at the back of the Island and catching a thermal wearing nothing but your clothes and a parachute! |
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Horse
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Golfing
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| The Island has many bridleways criss-crossing their way over the countryside. Brickfield Equestrian Centre, Binstead, makes an excellent day out for all the family. | The Island boasts many golf courses, it also has a Pitch & Putt and crazy golf at Browns golf course on Sandown seafront, and a golf driving range at Westridge. |
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Attractions
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There are miles of safe, clean and sandy beaches along the east coast of the Island. Facilities such as toilets and cafes etc can be found along Sandown seafront (left), further along towards Yaverland (right) the beach is less densely populated. |
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| A park set in 88 acres of woodland and countryside offering a variety of activities for all the family - such as three large thrill rides to peaceful foodland walks where the red squirrels live. | 40 acres of fantasy, legend and heritage theme park. Fun for all the family set on the dramatic cliff tops at the back of the Island. | Devoted
mainly to exotic animals from the Rainforest. Walk through a tropical aviary
with birds flying freely, see the lemurs at play or sit and watch the falconry
displays. Large outside adventure playground for the kids. |
| A brilliant museum of dinosaurs, combined with the Island's geology and fossil collections. There is a working laboratory on view and life sized fleshed reconstructions and an animatronic dinosaur! | The Isle of Wight Zoo is home of the tiger sanctuary and lemur land. Come and admire tigers, leopards, jaguars plus many exotic creatures from around the world. | The Owl and Falconry Centre at Appuldurcombe House offers flying displays daily with birds of prey from around the world. You can also learn to fly with confidence one of our trained birds on our residential/non-residential falconry courses. |
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Events
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| Rock
Festival featuring artists such as David Bowie, Stereophonics, Midge Ure,
the Who, Manic Street Preachers and more. |
Premier
sailing regatta. Exciting sailing racing over 1 week culminating in a grand fireworks display on Friday night. |
A
2 day festival revolving around...... garlic. With marquees, stalls, vintage
cars, everything a county fair has, with a hint of garlic. |
| A two week walking festival (the largest in Britain) with 150 guided walks, from short strolls to longer hikes such as the 'Walk the Wight' (26.5 miles). Each walk had its own theme -pub trails to dinosaurs, ghosts walks to lantern processions, local wildlife trails to spectacular coastal hikes. | World class competitors hit the waters off the Isle of Wight as Europe's biggest annual water and land based extreme sports festival From the power of the Zapcats to the sheer radical style of the Kiteboarders, Windsurfers, Surfers, Gravity Bikes, Street Luge, Mountain Boards and more! | In 2004
The Festival celebrated the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Over 100 traditional
boats and thousands of visitors celebrated D-Day, the incredible Operation
Overlord of 6th June 1944, in which 6,500 vessels landed 130,000 men on
the beaches of Normandy. |