Experience days

owains

owains

owains

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I'd like to buy an "experience day" gift for a friend's birthday. Has anyone tried any of these? Any particular website you can recommend?

Thanks!
 
Do not buy a Balloon flight ticket if the recipient is in the UK!
I bought my old dear a flight about two years ago (they are still honouring the ticket) but as of yet.. Every single flight she has said she can make has been cancelled due to bad weather.
Mother in her wisdom bought me a ticket the next year (I couldn't afford two at the time) and I've got so fed up of waiting around I gave it to my cousin..
Next flight is this Friday.... We'll see. :rolleyes:
 
owains said:
I'd like to buy an "experience day" gift for a friend's birthday. Has anyone tried any of these? Any particular website you can recommend?

Thanks!
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i bought mum audi r8 vs gt3 for her 60th from everyman racing back in jan, not used it yet as grandmother has been seriously ill, and we've spent a lot of time heading to weymouth from s wales whenever 2 days present themselves... been charged 35 odd quid to extend it, despite explaining the circumstances, and offering to get a doctor's cert to prove that she's been ill etc..
 
These kind of days are great but on some of them you need to book way in advance.

I got a Hummer Off-Road as a gift for my birthday. Every weekend is booked up for a year and the next 3 months are fully booked :/ Couldn't believe it.
 
If you go with them, I heard on Kiss fm yesterday that typing RADIO into the relevent box gets you a 10% discount.

I thought they were quite expensive in general though.
 
I was thinking of booking a Land/Range Rover off-road day for my boyfriends xmas present this year actually, anyone done one of these before? I'm quite worried about a long waiting time now!
 
tisonlyme said:
I was thinking of booking a Land/Range Rover off-road day for my boyfriends xmas present this year actually, anyone done one of these before? I'm quite worried about a long waiting time now!
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I did this one: http://www.landroverdriving.co.uk/ It was really good but was more tailored to people who had Landrovers and wanted to know how to use them properly rather than just having a blast in the mud. I suppose it depends what you're after.
 
[TW]Fox;14853808 said:
They are a load of rubbish - a guy sits next to you, limits the revs you can use, etc etc.

Nothing fun about driving a Ferrari that revs to 8krpm and not being allowed to take it past 3k.
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Ya exactly. At the experience day I booked I enquired about the ferraris and they said the same thing but for the rally day the instructor was constantly telling them to push the car to its limits. Better experience if you ask me.
 
I've done an experience day and it was a bit lame, they do limit you and the courses are usually a bit oval. However this week I tried the carlimits one and they really let you just do it at your own level alone.

Not having a car worthy to do this in my own, I started off in an Elise with him sitting next to me, then he gets out to show someone else and leaves you to do it
solo. Till I found out my rear left tire had a nail in it. Then changed to the Boxster.

Only down side I'd say is when you do the circuit at the end, it was very short, about 3 laps around a minute each.
 
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