And as all eyes turn to the North Pole at this time of year and because we like to be obtuse we’re honing in on Santa Turkey and the Land of Legends.
Because as all traditionalists know St Nicholas, or Santa Claus, hails not from Rovaniemi, sorry my Finnish friends, but Turkiye.
And Demre (Myra) on Turkiye’s south coast.
Where the children’s friend, the former Bishop of Myra, is buried under the Saint Nicholas church.
St Nick pilgrims can visit a museum at his church and the the Lycian, Hellenistic and Roman ruins of Myra.
Now today’s offer is to Antalya and maybe not what you imagine as seasonal.
But then in Turkiye St Nicholas isn’t just for Christmas but for the whole year, and every year.
Just a Click away
Our friends at Click & Go have sent on their seasonal greetings all wrapped up in an Antalya package for next May.
Your 2+2 family will fly out of Dublin and stay at the 5* The Land of Legends Kingdom Hotel.
For seven nights on an all-inclusive basis from €1,369pp,
With free and unlimited access to the Land of Legends Theme and Water Park.
Which celebrates ten years entertaining kids and big kids alike next year.
And we imagine St Nicklaus would be front and centre of the fun if he lived today.
Sponge yourself down
The award-winning Land of Legends boasts the amusement park, water park, shopping mall and hotel and is the biggest theme park in Turkey,
So to boil it down, that’s Adventure Land, Masha and the Bear Land of Laughter and Nickelodeon Land.
Your kids’ eyes might very well alight on the SpongeBob SquarePants, Paw Patrol, and Star Trek: Prodigy.
The indoor SpongeBob SquarePants section includes an installation of SpongeBob’s Crazy Carnival Ride from Sally Dark Rides.
Which our theme park pals tell us makes it the first SpongeBob dark ride to open outside of the United States.
