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Wightlink - http://www.wightlink.co.uk
Portsmouth to Fishbourne & Yarmouth to Lymington routes.
Also, foot passengers only from Portsmouth to
Ryde Pier Head (no booking necessary).
Red Funnel - http://www.redfunnel.co.uk
Southampton to East Cowes route (Car Ferry).
There is also a high speed passenger service from West Cowes to Southampton.
Hovertravel - http://www.hovertravel.co.uk
You may also take the Hovercraft from Southsea to Ryde Esplanade.
Foot passengers only (no booking necessary).
Train - http://www.thetrainline.com
Through train services from Waterloo and other main line stations
via Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde to Shanklin Station.
Ryde Taxis - (01983) 811111
Jet Cars Taxis - (0800)123444/ (01983) 566566
Buses & Trains on the Isle of Wight - Southern Vectis
Restaurants In Ryde area
Kevars Cafe
49 High Street, Ryde (01983) 615103
Opening times- Lunch times only
The King Lud
2 Esplanade. Ryde (01983) 562942
10% Discount for guests staying at the Dorset Hotel, Ryde
The Boat House
Springvale road, Seaview, (01983) 810616
Monsoon Indian Restaurant - www.monsooniow.co.uk
133-134 High Street, Ryde (01983) 562806
Opening times Monday-Sunday 12.00pm-2.30pm 6.00pm- Late
Yan Woo Malaysian Restaurant
59 Union Street Ryde (01983) 568818
Opening times Monday - Sunday 12.00p.m - 2.00 p.m. 5.00p.m. - 11.00 p.m.
Michelangelo Northern Italian Restaurant - www.ristorantemichelangelo.co.uk
A no smoking restaurant
30 St Thomas Street, Ryde (01983) 811966
Joe Daflos Cafe Bar -Union Street, Ryde (01983) 567047
Dos Amigos Restaurant
Union Street, Ryde (01983) 568866
Opening Times
Ryde Tandori Restaurant
Union Street, Ryde (01983) 563165
Opening Times
12 Midday - 2pm & 6pm - midnight
(Seven days a week)
Fowlers (Wetherspoons)
Union Street, Ryde (01983) 812112
Food Serving Times
All day until 1 hour before closing.
Salvatore's Restaurant
21 Player Street, Ryde (01983) 565324
Food Serving Times
12 midday - 1.45pm & 7pm - 9.30pm
(Monday to Saturday)
Beijing Palace - Currently demolished due to severe fire in November 2006
Appley Rise, Ryde (01983) 811888
Opening Times
12 noon - 2.30pm & 5.30pm - Midnight
(Seven days a week)
Restaurants outside Ryde recommended by the Dorset Hotel
Mojacs A La Carte Restaurant - www.mojacs.co.uk
10 Shooters Hill, Cowes (01983) 821118
Adgestone Vineyard
Upper Road, Adgestone, Sandown, PO36 0ES
Tel: 01983 402503 Open all year. 10am-5.30pm. Free. Cafe on site.
One of the oldest vineyards in Britain, Adgestone is set on a south facing slope in ten acres of outstanding natural beauty overlooked by Brading Down, just half a mile from the Roman Villa
Amazon World Zoo Park - www.amazonworld.co.uk
A great day out for all of the family. Cafe and gift shop on site.
Watery Lane, Nr Arreton IOW (01983) 867122 Open all year. 10.am-close. Family ticket available £23.00 (2 Adults & 2 Children).
Appuldurcombe House
Home of the Isle of Wight Owl and Falconry Centre. Open from Sunday 16th April. 10.am -close.£3 Adult £2 Child £9 Family.
Easter Egg Hunt. L E O F W I G H T
Tel: 01983 840188 / 852484
Situated on the South of the Island, just 2 miles from the coast at both Ventnor and Shanklin. Approach is along a half mile private drive from the road. It is a pleasant walk over the fields from Godshill.
Arreton Barns craft Village - Arreton Village just look for the gypsy caravan
tel. 01983 539361 www.arretonbarns.co.uk
Bembridge Heritage Centre
A facinating exhibition housed in a forma Victorian school. Past and Present
village life portrayed in photographs and artefacts
Bembridge Town (01983) 874218
Bembridge Windmill
The island only remaining windmill dating from around 1700 Free entry. National Trust Gift shop. Refreshment kiosk. NO W.C.
National Trust
Bembridge (01983) 873945
Blackgang Chine Fantasy Park - www.blackgangchine.com
A fantasy world for the child in all of us.Open 26th March -28th October. 10am -Close.£8.95 (4-60 years) Saver ticket £33 (family of 4)
Blackgang, Chale (01983) 730052
Brading the Experience -More than just wax works . Easter-November 10am-5pm. £6.75 Adult £4.75 Child(5-15 years)Family(4) £21 (5) £25.
High Street Brading Tel. 01983 407286 www.bradingtheexperience.co.uk
Brading Roman Villa - Morton Old Road Brading Tel (01983 406223)
New award winning exhibition and visitor centre at Brading Roman Villa. Experience for yourself what
is was really like to be living in Roman Times www.bradingromanvilla.org.uk
Butterfly World and Fountain World
Landscaped indoor gardens with exoctic free flying butterflys .Open 1st April-31st October 10am-5.30pm.£5Adult £3.50 Child under 4 free.Gift & Coffee shops.
Medina Garden Centre Wotton (01983) 883430
Brickfields Horse Country
Everything equestrian, including riding school.
Newham Road, Binstead, IOW (01983) 566801
Carisbrook Castle Near Newport
Motte and Bailey castle where Charles 1 was imprisoned .Open all year 10am-5pm summer 10am-4pm winter.Shop & Tea room. £5.50Adult £2.80 child.
Family £13.80 (2adults & 3children).
English Heritage
Carisbrook Tel. (01983) 522107
Chessell Pottery Barns - www.chessellpotterybarns.co.uk
A working pottery where you can decorate your own pottery in the studio.Open Easter-1st Nov. 9.30am-5.30pm. 1st Nov. weekends only.
Chessell Near Calbourne Tel. (01983) 531248
Coastal Visitor Centre - www.coastalwight.gov.uk
Exhibition of all aspects of Isle of Wight Coastline including management of
landslides.
Salisbury Gardens, Dudley Road , Ventnor Tel (01983) 855400
Colemans Animal Farm
Lots of animals to feed and cuddle, daily activities and demonstrations.March-Oct. 10am-5pm.Closed Mon except school holidays.
Colemans Lane Porchfield Tel. (01983) 522831
Dimbola Lodge Museum - www.dimbola.co.uk
Museum and photographic galleries in former house of Victorian photgrapher
Julia Margaret Cameron.
Terrace Lane Freshwater Bay Tel (01983) 755578
Dinosaur Farm Museum
Talk to the experts working on the recently discovered dinosaur bones
Near Brightstone Tel (01983) 740844
Dinosaur Isle - Isle of Wight
Dinosaur Isle is Britain's first purpose built dinosaur museum. The building displays many fossils and life size constructions of the island dinosaurs
Culver Parade Sandown (01983) 404344
Godshill Model Village - www.iowight.com/model-village
See parts of the Island in miniature.Opens March 5th 10am-3.30pm(5-6pm April-Oct).£3.25adult £1.75child(u/3 free) Family £9.00(2adults & 3children)
High Street, Godshill (01983) 840270
Island Speedway Ltd
Smallbrook Stadium, Ashey Road, Ryde, PO31
Tel: 01983 811180
Premier League 500cc Motorcycle Speedway Racing. Enjoy a great evening out - bars, snacks, covered seating and free car park.
Open: Every Tuesday April to October & every Tuesday & Thursday in August. Gates open - 18:00, racing - 19:30 - 21:30.
Isle of Wight Zoo - Home to the finest collection of Tigers in Europe
Yaverland Seafront Sandown Tel. 01983 403883 www.isleofwightzoo.com
Mottistone Manor Gardens
A magical garden set alongside an Elizabethan manor house (tenanted) with colourful borders, gentle grassy terraces and views of the sea.
Mottistone, Isle of Wight,
Tel: 01983 741302
Oasis Shop
Carpenters Road Brading Isle of Wight PO36 0QA
Tel: (01983) 613760
The Oasis is one of the most talked about shopping attractions in southern UK. With over 12,000 sq foot of unusual and dramatic products ranging from Hand carved Teak Furniture directly imported from the small Indonesian island of Bali. Home ware gifts including candles, glassware, giftware and table ornaments.
Osborne House - www.english-heritage.org.uk
Discover Queen Victoria's Island residence and wonderful gardens.Open all year,closed Mondays & Tuesdays Nov-March.£9.50 adult £4.80 child £22.40 family
East Cowes (01983) 200022
Quarr Abbey - www.quarrabbey.co.uk
Monastry of Benedictine Monks
On the main road betweed Ryde and Newport (01983) 882420
Robin Hill Country Adventure Park - www.robin-hill.com
Woodland walks and adventure play areas make this a great place for all of the family.Open26th March-20th July 10am-5pm August 10a.m-6pm. £7.95 4yrs +
Saver Ticket £29 (4)
Arreton (01983) 730052
Seaview Wildlife Encounter www.flamingoparkiw.com
Award winning wildlife park with a unique hands-on programme. Cafe and gift shop on site. Open April 1st-28th October.
Springvale, Seaview, Nr Ryde (01983) 612261
The Needles Park - www.theneedles.co.uk
See the Islands most famous views, watch glass blowing
and sweet making demonstrations and see
the remarkable coloured sands. Open April-Oct.
Alum Bay (0870) 4580022
The Balcony, - www.balconyryde.co.uk
The Pavilion
The Esplanade
Ryde
Isle of Wight
PO33 2EL
TEL : 0808 1085353
Club K, Newport (01983) 821474
Temptation - www.clubtemptation.co.uk
Newport (01983) 525235
Colonel Bogeys - www.bogeys.co.uk
Culver Parade Sandown (01983) 405320
The Venue at Ryde Theatre 01983 568099 www.rydetheatre.co.uk
Tourism Websites
www.isleofwight.net - information regarding the island.
http://www.lodging-world.com for accommodation in other parts of the UK and Europe
Cinema
Cineworld,furlongs, newport, 0871 200 2000, www.cineworld.co.uk
Events
May 24th 08, Ryde rowing club Regatta, 10.30am Appley beach, Ryde
June 1st-3rd 08, Yarmouth Old Gaffers festival.
June 13th,14th,15th 08, IOW Festival www.isleofwightfestival.com
June 22nd 08, isle of wight soapbox derby challenge, Downside middle school, www.iow-soapbox-derby-challenge.org.uk
June 28th 08, Round the island yacht race, 7am The Needles
July 5th,6th 08, 1940's Weekend at IOW Steam Railway (01983) 884515
July 13th 08, Bembridge carnival
July 19th 08, Stereotonics and oasish, the venue, ryde theatre (01983) 528099
July 21st-22nd 08, Osbourne House firework proms (01983) 200022
July 25-29th 08, Day out with Thomas, www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk
July 26th 08, The 21st and last mottistone jazz, (01983) 740689
July 30th 08, Sandown carnival, www.sandowncarnival.com
August, exact dates TBC, Garlic festival, Newchurch showground
August 2nd-9th 08, Scandia life cowes week, West Cowes
August 6th 08, Shanklin carnival
August 22nd,23rd,24th 08, International scooter ralley, Ryde
August 22nd 08, Hiwatts, the venue, ryde theatre (01983) 528099
August 23rd 08, Who's who, the venue, ryde theatre (01983)528099
August 24th 08, Powerboat festival
August 28th,29th,30th 08, Ryde Carnivals, Main, Illuminated and childrens www.rydecarnival.co.uk/processions.html
September 5th,6th,7th 08, Bestival, Robin hill country park www.bestival.net
September 15th-23rd 08, Isle of Wight cycling festival www.sunseaandcycling.com
September 18th-21st 08, Whiteair extreme sports festival, Sandown www.whiteair.co.uk
October Halloween, Ghost walks around victorian buildings www.ghost-tours.co.uk ghost walks also available all year
Please note that we are fully booked for the international scooter ralley 2008
The Dorset Hotel, 31 Dover Street, Ryde, ISLE OF WIGHT, PO33 2BW Tel: 01983 564327, Fax: 01983 614635 Email: hoteldorset@aol.com |