About us
Join our Travel Club and enjoy a great range of short breaks and days out with a difference across the UK and Europe!
REAL Socialising is one of the friendliest travel clubs you will find in South-East Kent.
We pride ourselves on making sure you have a memorable experience for all the right reasons when you travel with us….Join our Facebook page and read some of the great comments!
We offer an annual calendar of events, days out with a difference and great value short breaks, as well as ticket-only events. We include complimentary days out as part of our short breaks. If those days out involve visiting places of interest, we pass on group rates directly to you!
We welcome suggestions for new places to visit from our members too…if you’ve experienced a really great place, then tell us about it, we love to plan visits to new places and share with our members.
We can only confirm our excursions subject to reaching the minimum number of people booking, so please help spread the word and we hope to see you for some REAL Socialising soon!
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Explore Portsmouth
Location not specified yet# xplore Portsmouth
### Offering a great value 3 day break to Portsmouth….what a fabulous place to explore…the Historic Dockyard, maritime history, retail therapy and so much more!
We won’t need to send in the ‘press gang’ to get you to sign up to this great value 3 day break in Portsmouth, so much to see and do and we are putting options together to assist too and seeking 2026 group rates to pass on direct….click below to read all the details on our flyer
Book online @ www.realsocialising.co.uk Or email viv@realsocialising.co.uk
Price pp based on 2 sharing £179 – solo occupancy + £75Download info Flyer
Street.https://www.realsocialising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Explore-Portsmouth-12-14-March-2026_compressed.pdfPLEASE NOTE YOUR ARE BOOKING THE ROOM TYPE, NOT PER PERSON -BOOK YOUR PREFERENCE, SINGLE, DOUBLE OR TWIN ROOM
Pick up points: Cheriton Post Office, Folkestone Bus Station, Red Lion Square Hythe, Ashford Park Street.https://www.realsocialising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Explore-Portsmouth-12-14-March-2026_compressed.pdf3 attendees
Thriplow Daffodil Festival
Location not specified yet### One of our annual favourite trips returns…..from a small village festival, the Thriplow Daffodil weekend enjoys more than 10,000 visitors each year, join us if you can for a lovely day out!
#### The 450 village residents and a team of volunteers work together to coordinate a fantastic floral and fundraising weekend, with open gardens, over 100 stalls, horse and carriage rides, music and more throughout the village and its car-free lanes.
##### Adults: £35 – Carer Seats available @ £27pp – Under 16’s: £27. Under 5’s £15 – £10 non refundable deposit payable with booking please (whoops sorry to early bookers, deposit now set to £10 not £1 so will resolve on final payment request)
Download info Flyer
ttps://www.realsocialising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/THRIPLOW-SATURDAY-21st-MARCH-2026_compressed.pdfPick up points: Cheriton Post Office, Folkestone Bus Station, Red Lion Square Hythe, Ashford Park Street. Contact us to talk about bespoke pick-ups for larger groups
Deposit & Payment Policy Terms & Conditions
NB we are linking in the opportunity to make best use of the coach and drop passengers off at Duxford should they wish to visit a destination in close proximity on the same day…check out the IWM Duxford trip
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Imperial War Museum, Duxford
Location not specified yet## Lose yourself for the day wandering under and around some of the most iconic aircraft in the world at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
Find the massive B-52 Stratofortress, get face-to-face with the Blackbird – the fastest jet aircraft ever made – and meet an icon of the skies enabling you to climb onboard Concorde, courtesy of the British Airliner Collection. (Concorde is open daily from 10:30am to 3pm. Collect your free timed ticket in Airspace to board)
Hear the stories of those who lived and worked at historic Duxford and learn more about Duxford’s role in the Battle of Britain by visiting the Ops Block. All this and so much more!
NB: Some of IWM Duxford’s exhibitions are changing. To undertake this important work, they are beginning to relocate some objects and collection items.
To find out what’s open during your visit, check out the exhibition pages here.
Currently showing coach only price of £27pp with a £10 deposit – We are waiting for 2026 group rates which will be offered subject to numbers interested (min 15)
Download info Flyer
https://www.realsocialising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IWM-DUXFORD-21-3-26_compressed.pdfPick up points: Cheriton Post Office, Folkestone Bus Station, Red Lion Square Hythe, Ashford Park Street. Contact us to talk about bespoke pick-ups for larger groups
We are making best use of our Thriplow Daffodil Festival coach which drives past the Duxford Site.
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Past events
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