Three Ways House, near Chipping Campden, The Cotswolds

Celebrate Christmas 2011 at the Home of the Pudding Club

Friday 23rd December
Welcome to Christmas at Three Ways House. Arrive in time to settle into your room before joining us by the log fires in the lounges and bar for the start of your Christmas holiday. We will serve toasted crumpets and handmade preserves with your afternoon tea. For Dinner tonight Chef and his team will be using the best local ingredients to create a Cotswold menu featuring Severn and Wye Smoked Salmon, Foxcote Estate Pheasant, Gloucester Old Spot Pork and award winning local cheeses. We have a selection of English wines to tempt you with too.

Christmas Eve
Take the opportunity for some last minute shopping in Broadway, visit the Panto at the tiny theatre in Chipping Norton or pop on your walking boots and enjoy the lovely countryside. We will provide maps, fill your flasks and advise on which routes to take. Be back in time for tea and homemade cupcakes by the fire. Before dinner tonight we will gather around the piano for Champagne and Canapes and enjoy Christmas Carols sung by local choristers. Dinner in the Restaurant will be accompanied by a pianist playing festive tunes.

Christmas Day At Three Ways House
Christmas Day begins with a delicious Continental buffet breakfast - delicious pastries, fresh fruit, yogurt, ham, cheese and local juice, leave plenty of room for Lunch! This morning you may like to attend a service at one of the nearby churches. Another Three Ways House tradition will continue when Santa arrives laden with presents. The centerpiece of Christmas Day is Lunch, the best meal of the year! Our team of chefs will be playing their part as they roast Local Free Range Bronze Turkeys and Prime Ribs of Hereford Beef. Sheila, our own “Queen of Puddings”, will make the fabulous Christmas Pudding. After lunch relax in a comfy chair by the fire before we tempt you with Tea and Christmas cake. If you are still peckish, this evening, join us for a Buffet Supper with handmade pork pies, cold meats and many other dishes for you to enjoy. Entertainment this evening will be in the form of our caricaturist who will be delighted to present you with your own personal souvenir.

Boxing Day
Take a coach tour of the North Cotswolds this morning with our Blue Badge Guide Maureen Sutherland. Maureen will share some of her Cotswold secrets and there will be a stop for some Winter Punch and Spiced Biscuits. You will be back at the hotel in time for a hot and cold buffet lunch. During the afternoon the bustle of Stratford on Avon or the charms of Broadway may tempt you away from the log fires. Stretch your legs with the Traditional Treasure Hunt around the village of Mickleton itself. For dinner tonight Chef will include a buffet of our famous puddings together with some of the rules, history and fun of the Pudding Club. To finish the evening there will be a Christmas Casino and the chance to play Roulette at a full size table or learn how to play Blackjack, it’s all for fun money but with a prize for the winner.

Tuesday 27th December
Today is a Bank Holiday so there is no hurry to leave us. The shops will be open with the sales in full flow. Stay tonight and enjoy Dinner, Bed and English breakfast at very special rates. Before Dinner chef will be giving away some of his secrets at the Divine Chocolate demonstration and tasting, and by popular request our chefs will prepare their famous chocolate menu including Plaice Fillet with White Chocolate Sauce, Breast of Duck with a Dark Chocolate Sauce and a plate of chocolate desserts! Don’t worry the menu features lots of other choices if you are not a complete Chocoholic!

Prices are per guest and include meals, accommodation, entertainment as outlined, and VAT @20%.

We ask for a £100 deposit per guest at the time of booking to confirm your reservation. Full payment is then required by 1st November 2011. In the unfortunate circumstance of cancellation, deposits and pre-payments are non-refundable unless we are able to re let the room. We recommend that you take out Holiday Insurance.

New Year's Eve 2011 at Three Ways House

Friday 30th December 2011
Welcome to Three Ways House, settle in and enjoy tea and homemade biscuits by the fireside. Dinner tonight will include a buffet of the Great British Puddings that have made us famous before the fun casino starts. Roulette and Blackjack await you with croupiers to guide you through the rules at an evening of fun and funny money! For the most astute gambler there will be a prize of course.

Saturday - New Years Eve
Enjoy an English breakfast to start the day, why not you are on holiday. The day is yours to enjoy. Racing at Warwick, the delights of Chipping Campden, Broadway or Cheltenham or a country walk? We have arranged for Cotswold Wardens to lead the energetic on a six mile walk with a packed lunch along the way. No doubt everyone will be back in time for for homemade scones with cream and jam this afternoon. Tonight’s Mark Rowlandson and his team of chefs will prepare a celebration 5 course dinner for you to enjoy as our pianist plays to start the evening’s entertainment. Dance to the very popular St Perdito Street Dance Band and the Phantasy Disco - something for everyone. They will entertain you until the New Year begins and on into 2012. Welcome in the New Year with a glass of Chilled Champagne.

Sunday - New Years Day 2012
Welcome to the Olympic Year. Start as you mean to go on with a glass of Bucks Fizz and our traditional New Year’s Day Brunch from 9 until 11! However today might be the day to start that exercise regime you are planning in preparation for the Marathon, if you fancy a country walk we have the maps if you have the boots and the inclination. If you are a racing fan the magnificent course (and shops) at Cheltenham awaits. There is a more leisurely stroll available if you would like to solve all of the clues in the village Chocolate Treasure Hunt. Be back for this afternoon’s Tea and Flapjack. For Dinner tonight Chef and his team will use the best local ingredients to create a Cotswold Menu featuring Severn and Wye Smoked Salmon, Foxcote Estate Pheasant, Gloucester Old Spot Pork and award winning local cheeses. Can we tempt you to a glass of English wine?

Monday 2nd January 2012
Great news - today is a Bank Holiday! So don’t dash away, stay an extra night and enjoy a terrific rate for Dinner Bed and Breakfast.

Prices are per guest and include meals, accommodation, entertainment as outlined, and VAT @20%. We ask for a £100 deposit per guest at the time of booking to confirm your reservation. Full payment is then required by 1st November 2011. In the unfortunate circumstance of cancellation, deposits and pre-payments are non-refundable unless we are able to re let the room. We recommend that you take out Holiday Insurance.