Travel Trade

One estate. One contract. Twenty minutes from Gatwick.

A 240 acre Grade I listed garden in West Sussex, and also a MICHELIN Star restaurant, a MICHELIN Key hotel, a working English sparkling wine estate and a golf course. Two sites, two miles apart. All of it belongs to one owner and all of it sits on one rate sheet.

Gatwick

20 min

12.5 miles by road

Central London

1 hr 15

Horsham station 10 min

Bedrooms

19

plus Fullers Cottage

Garden

240 acres

Grade I listed

Tastings up to

100

at the Wine Estate Tasting Room

Also on site

Golf

Manning’s Heath, same ownership

What you are actually buying

A full day and a night, from one supplier

For an operator building a Southern England programme, this removes three suppliers and three sets of timings from a single day. One invoice, one point of contact, one set of confirmations.

1

10.30

Arrive at the gardens

Meet and greet at the entrance, free coach parking. Guided walk with a member of the garden team, then time among the rhododendrons, the lakes, the wallabies and deer, the Dolls House Museum and the sculpture park.
2

13.00

Lunch on the estate

From a tea and coffee stop to a sit-down afternoon tea, or lunch at Restaurant Interlude on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Menus quoted against your group size and timing.
3

14.30

Walk the vines, ride them, or seat the whole coach

On the walking tour the Brut Reserve, Classic Cuvée and Brut Rosé are poured among the vines as you go, finishing seated with the Blanc de Blancs. That tour takes a maximum of 16. At Leonardslee Wine Estate, two miles away, the Tasting Room seats up to 100, runs vineyard tours by golf buggy, and teaches the old art of sabrage. Our winemaker is Johann Fourie.
4

19.00

Dinner at Restaurant Interlude

Holder of a MICHELIN Star and a MICHELIN Green Star, in Leonardslee House on the same site. Dinner Thursday to Sunday. Contracted partners hold table allocations on named dates.
5

Overnight

Stay on the estate

Ten bedrooms at Leonardslee House, awarded a MICHELIN Key. Nine further bedrooms at Leonardslee Wine Estate, two miles away, plus Fullers Cottage. Breakfast at Clocktower Restaurant, or at the Vineyard Kitchen for guests staying at the Wine Estate.

Nothing else in Sussex puts a Grade I listed garden, a MICHELIN Star restaurant, MICHELIN Key rooms and an English sparkling wine estate on a single contractable rate sheet. Twenty minutes from Gatwick, it also works as a first morning or a final afternoon without adding a transfer.

The estate

Two sites, two miles apart

Both are ours and both are on the same rate sheet, which is what lets a mixed group split for the afternoon and come back together for dinner.

Site one

Leonardslee House and the Gardens

240 acres of Grade I listed garden dating from 1801, lakes, wallabies and deer, the Dolls House Museum and the sculpture park. Reopened in 2019 after the largest garden restoration in Europe since the Lost Gardens of Heligan
Restaurant Interlude, MICHELIN Star and MICHELIN Green Star
Ten bedrooms at Leonardslee House, awarded a MICHELIN Key
The Drawing Room, an exclusive wine experience for up to 16, and private dining by Restaurant Interlude
Clocktower Restaurant for breakfast
The walking wine tour, maximum 16

Site two

Leonardslee Wine Estate

The Tasting Room, seated tastings for up to 100
Vineyard tours by golf buggy, and sabrage
The Vineyard Kitchen, and breakfast for guests staying here
Nine bedrooms, plus Fullers Cottage
Manning’s Heath Golf, on the same land and in the same ownership, for groups, societies and corporate parties
500 acres, with vines at this site and at the gardens

Mannings Heath Golf keeps its own name and sits on the same land as Leonardslee Wine Estate, under the same ownership and on the same rate sheet. That is the one most operators do not expect. A party can split for the afternoon, half playing golf and half in the gardens, and meet again for dinner. Mixed-interest groups are among the hardest things an operator has to solve, and this solves one on a single contract.

Contractable

What you can book, and on what basis

Rates are set on the 1 April to 31 March year and are guaranteed and final for the period quoted.

Product	Capacity	When	Trade basis
Garden admission	10 to 60	Daily, closed Christmas Day	Published group rate, which is the net rate. Peak April to June £13.50 adult, £7.50 child. Off-peak £12.50 and £6.50. Guided walk £5 per person.
Leonardslee House	10 rooms	Year round	Confidential net rate on application. Allocation and release agreed at contracting. MICHELIN Key.
Leonardslee Wine Estate	9 rooms	Year round	Confidential net rate on application. Two miles from the gardens.
Restaurant Interlude	By allocation	Dinner Thu to Sun, lunch Fri to Sun	No commission. Held table allocations for named partners, or packaged into a net overnight rate.
Wine tour, walking	Max 16	Two sessions daily, Thu to Sun	At the gardens. Trade net rate on application, without the retail wine credit carried by the consumer ticket.
The Tasting Room	Up to 100	On request	At Leonardslee Wine Estate. Seated tastings, vineyard tours by golf buggy, and sabrage. This is the one that takes a full coach, where the walking tour caps at 16.
The Drawing Room, wine	Up to 16	Thu to Sun	An exclusive wine experience at Leonardslee House, taken as a private group. Booked in advance, the room yours for the session.
The Drawing Room, dining	4 to 14	Thu to Sun	Exclusive private dining by Restaurant Interlude, in the same room. The price buys the room.
Manning’s Heath Golf	Groups and societies	Year round	On the same land as Leonardslee Wine Estate and in the same ownership. Corporate days, society days, and split parties where half the group plays while the rest visit the gardens.
Leonardslee Lights	15+	27 Nov to 30 Dec	Group rate from £14.80 per person. Dinner package available.

How we work with the trade

Plainly, so you can price it

Group rates are net

The published group rate is the net rate and no commission sits on top, which is the standard across UK gardens and attractions.

Two guests is a booking

Most of what we are asked for is not a coach. FIT bookings are handled on the same account, by email, and confirmed within one working day.

Rooms carry a net rate

Confidential, static and guaranteed for the contracted period. Request the rate sheet and we will send it with a contracting form.

Come and see it

Familiarisation visits run through the year, and are complimentary for group organisers planning a visit. Overnight visits for contracted operators, subject to availability.

The restaurant carries none

What contracted partners receive instead is a held table allocation on named dates, which on a Michelin Starred restaurant is worth more than a percentage.

Programming

Three seasons, not one famous fortnight

The rhododendrons are what most people have heard of. They are not the only reason to put us in a programme, and two of the other three are easier to sell.

Mid-April to late May

Rhododendrons and azaleas

World class, and the reason the garden is Grade I listed. A fortnight of it overlaps the Chelsea week, so it works best as a stop on an existing May itinerary rather than a season of its own.

October

Autumn colour

As good as the spring through the woodland valley, considerably quieter, and it lands in the North American autumn travel season. The easiest month of the year to programme well.

27 Nov to 30 Dec

Leonardslee Lights

An illuminated trail through the gardens, already group priced from 15 guests with a dinner package. One of the simplest things in UK group travel to sell into a December programme.

Year round

The part that is never out of season

The wallabies, the deer, the lakes and a MICHELIN Star restaurant on site are not seasonal. A garden with a Star attached is a lunch stop twelve months a year, and lunch is what makes a coach itinerary work.

Travel Trade

One estate. One contract. Twenty minutes from Gatwick.

A full day and a night, from one supplier

For an operator building a Southern England programme, this removes three suppliers and three sets of timings from a single day. One invoice, one point of contact, one set of confirmations.

Arrive at the gardens

Lunch on the estate

Walk the vines, ride them, or seat the whole coach

Dinner at Restaurant Interlude

Stay on the estate