Secret Meadows

The winner of this year’s guest competition to win a 4 night midweek holiday is….. Jane Swann. Congratulations! Thank you to all our guests who entered this year. We’ll be sending an email to our winner next. Here are some of our favourite photos taken by guests during this year’s holiday season. Thank you to everyone who stayed with us this year – we hope we can welcome you back! We’re closed over the winter and will be re-opening for a new exciting season on 22nd March.

Here are some four-legged visitors at the nature reserve this morning - you might see them too if you stay here! We have our last weekend availability for one Luxury Lodge Tent tomorrow before we close for the winter in November. Hurry if you'd like a last minute glamping holiday for half-term! Also we have some midweek slots available during half-term. We'll then be busy completing our fabulous new 2-storey safari tent for next year's season (more details coming soon....)

LAST MINUTE AVAILABILITY this week! We've had a cancellation for the Hobbit Box and we're offering a stay from Monday 23rd (arriving today or on Tuesday or Wednesday) to Friday 27th July for £295. Please email or telephone us if you'd like this holiday for up to 2 adults and 2 children! Please note we only accept bookings from families (or up to 2 adults per accommodation) during the summer holidays.

2019 bookings now open! It’s been such a great holiday season so far and we’re really enjoying welcoming lots of returning and new guests here. We’ve just opened bookings for next year at our website, following lots of enquiries, so do have a look or get in touch if you’re interested in staying. Many thanks to Gemma Treby for sharing some of your holiday photos – here’s one of our favourites…

Sunshine and golden buttercups in the meadow overlooking the Luxury Lodge Tents (hoping it will stay like this for half-term week!)

Delighted to have won an award at the Norfolk & Suffolk Tourism Awards in the magnificent St Edmundsbury Cathedral last night. Green principles are at the heart of what we do at Secret Meadows so it means a lot to us to win the Sustainable Tourism award! Congratulations to all the other #NSTAwards winners and finalists. Photo of the awards ceremony taken by Simon Finlay Photography

Welcome to our new four-legged friends at Secret Meadows! Pip the Pig and Magnus the Goat have come from a children’s nursery in the village and they are the friendliest we’ve met so we know they will love being visited by our guests. They both have hearty appetites as you can see in the photos but if they had an eating contest Pip the Pig would easily be the winner.

We're taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch at Secret Meadows later this month. It's a great way to encourage children to recognise some common bird species and to involve them in feeding the birds through these cold months. If you're interested there's still time to order a free pack from the RSPB and you get 20% off their online shop: https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/acti vities/birdwatch/

Here's evidence of the recent snow at Secret Meadows. It even settled for a few days, for the first time in years! The perfect time to get the fire going, although our tent woodburners will have to wait a few more months until we re-open for the Spring. P.S. Christmas vouchers for a Secret Meadows holiday are available!

Congratulations to Jenny Davies for winning this year's guest competition for a midweek holiday at Secret Meadows in 2018! Many thanks to our guests who entered the competition this year.

Now that it’s the end of another glamping season we wanted to share some of our favourite photos taken by guests this year. Thanks so much to all who have sent holiday pics to us. We’ve packed away things for the winter and we’ll be welcoming guests again from the end of March next year. THANK YOU to all our wonderful guests who have stayed here! We love sharing this wildlife site and knowing that lots of happy memories are formed here. Charlotte and Ross P.S. We’ll be announcing the winner of our guest competition later today!

Thanks so much to all who entered today’s competition and for your comments. We’re sorry not to be able to offer you all a holiday! We do have one winner and we’re delighted to announce the winner is Emma Saunders - congratulations! Please send us an email to holidays@secretmeadows.co.uk so we can confirm your details and the holiday. (If we don’t hear back from our winner by 10 am tomorrow we’ll select another.)

WIN A FREE HOLIDAY this week at Secret Meadows! We've just had a cancellation for a holiday this week (staying up to Friday) and the guests have kindly donated their holiday to our wildlife charity, The Sinfield Nature Conservation Trust. HOW TO ENTER: For a chance to win this free holiday please REPLY to this post by 8pm today to let us know if you and your family would like the holiday. Please do LIKE our page and SHARE this post too (although it’s not essential to enter... the competition). We'll announce the winner this evening at 9pm. The prize is for a family of up to 6 in a Luxury Lodge Tent. The winner will need to be able to arrive here tomorrow or Wednesday and departure is on Friday by 10 am. We don’t accept all-adult groups during school holidays so the prize can only be awarded to a family. The winning family will be selected at random. Our charity's Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/SinfieldTrust/