Category Archives: Blog

For the last fifteen years, Kip Hakes has blogged his thoughts, ramblings and musings. There are blog posts on all manner of subjects right here. From technology, theme parks, days outs to parenting, it’s all for the reading! Enjoy!

Top Tips – Perform these simple car care checks

Before embarking on any long journeys, I always do a few basic checks on the [...]

Why you should Bot your Instagram Account

Who likes talking to people? Who likes interacting with others? Who likes idly looking at [...]

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Video Blog #14 – A VIP Trip to Thorpe Park including a Coaster Climb!

As part of the Thorpe Park Resort’s ‘Island Ambassador 2017’ scheme, we were invited for [...]

Video Blog #12 and #13 – A stay at Warwick Castle

We were lucky enough to be invited to stay at the Knight’s Village at Warwick [...]

The Man – Pt. 2

I suppose this is a bit of a follow up to this post. I was [...]

Video Blog #11 – A trip to Thorpe Park Resort

So myself and G had a day to ourselves and decided to spend it at [...]

Video Blog #10 – A trip to Alton Towers Resort – Day 2

Day 2 of our stay at the Alton Towers Resort – it sees us having [...]

The Man

I was stood outside hanging the washing out, and I heard it, clear as day [...]

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Video Blog #9 – A trip to Alton Towers Resort – Day 1

In a welcome, and hopefully permanent to Video Blogging today I’ve put up a video [...]

A quick chat with Ben Faulks aka Mr Bloom!

A whole host of CBeebies stars were at the launch of the CBeebies Land Hotel [...]

One hundred percent my type on paper…

I have a confession, I thought I’d be ashamed in saying this… But, I want [...]

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All you need to know about the CBeebies Land Hotel at Alton Towers

So, this weekend we were one of the first families to stay at the CBeebies [...]

Thorpe Shark Hotel – Kids go Free! Be quick though!

We’re big fans of Thorpe Park Resort here, and we all enjoyed our stay at [...]

The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Afternoon Tea at Paradise Wildlife Park

As part of my Red Letter Days Ambassadorship I was invited to try another one [...]