Oatlands is out for a weekly happening
Friday 15th July 2011, 2:29PM BST.
OATLANDS’ new owner plans to hold an event every weekend and open a covered market selling Guernsey produce.
Peter Kaufman-Kent (pictured), who bought the complex two months ago, said he had set manager Martyn Hallett the challenge of getting one event on the showgrounds every weekend.
‘Eventually people will say at the weekend: “We might as well go to Oatlands, they will have something on”.’
Oatlands recently hosted a Barclays Premier Trophy tour with a tournament for children and a Mini car show. It is now planning dog training, horse and Guernsey goat shows and looking into putting on a big screen for next year’s Olympic Games.
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If they reduced their prices I might consider taking my children there.
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Seconded. Loads of things about to enjoy with your children ‘for free’.
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If I remember rightly there was a ‘happening’ about a year or so ago when there was a bust up over someone taking photographs of his own child
(I think) on the miniature golf course
Anyway, good luck Mr K-K,the island certainly needs a little TLC
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Good luck to him with these plans. Quick question – what happened to the advertised dog show on Sunday 17th July?
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Going by the radio announcement you’ll find that the weather forecast for Sunday put paid to the dog show.
Planning a weekly event with our unpredictable weather could be a risky strategy although I’m glad that finally it seems as if all of the space at Oatlands may start to be utilised.
My question though – why on earth are they opening a new tea-room when the brasserie already caters for for that by providing teas/coffees/cakes etc. all day? Seems a bit bizarre (if not unfair) to encourage someone else to open a business right next door in direct competition in the same complex. Couldn’t they have thought of something new and original to do with that space instead?
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