FJB Group News

Summer time is with us again, this is a great time to look at our offering of Rosé wines
 
VALLE REALE 2006 CERASUOLO, MONTEPULCIANO D’ABRUZZO
The Pizzolo family’s winery is perched inside a wild, glacier-carved national park in Abruzzi, on the “calf” of the Italian boot, where the grapes ripen late, just as the first snows dust [...]

The Sandbanks Hotel and Funsters Entertainment offer a full and varied programme of activities to suit the whole family, offering first class entertainment during your stay with us.
 
Childrens Entertainment
For children we have Funsters Cool Kids, with mini disco’s, limbo competitions, treasure hunts, crazy games, funkiest funster, visiting shows and gunge fun and so much more, [...]

Recently I have been extremely busy preparing our new wine lists for the group;  we have greatly extended our list and have some really great offerings.  
 
Apart from including quite a few top end wines for that special celebration for example;

Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru, Pierre Morey, 2001
Penfolds, ‘Yattarna’, Chardonnay1999
Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, 5 growth, 1993
Vosne-Romanée, Mugneret-Gibourg, 2000

To some more unusual [...]

To be nominated for any award is always an exciting moment, which is then closely followed by that nervous wait until the results are announced.
 
For the FJB Group, the wait is until the 29th September 2009, the Travolution Awards at The Dorchester Hotel, London where we have been named as short listed in the ‘Best [...]

As the sun came up for another beautiful bank holiday weekend, the class to be taught by professional trainer Jim Collis started to set up their equipment.
 
 
The comment was made, “It’s not often we get three out of three: Sun, wind and high tide!” - the day was set to be perfect.
Jim Colliss - possibly [...]

Following the recent major refurbishment at the Chine Hotel, customers now have a choice of two restaurants.
Residents and non-residents can now enjoy sea views through our gardens from the Sea View Restaurant offering One-Rosette standard food with a daily changing fixed price dinner menu.  
The Gallery Brasserie has been created together with a handsome bar, [...]

In September Andy Ward, from Parkstone, will attempt to kite surf across from Alderney to Poole, this trip across the the English Channel is 70 nautical miles and across busy shipping lanes.
 
To be successful in his cross channel attempt in September Andy is not only relying on the correct wind speed and force, but also the reliability [...]

On 10 -11th July 2009 The British Beach Polo Championships returns to Sandbanks, Poole for the second year. It is set to be an extremely thrilling and popular event as the England Beach Polo Team will be playing against the USA on both days.
 
Beach Polo is a variation of Arena Polo which over recent years [...]

Earlier this month we were privileged to welcome a film crew from Cactus TV to The Sandbanks Hotel.  Tom Melia, VT Director and Jo Watkins, Researcher were part of the team filming the first Richard and Judy Book Club Summer Read interview.  
 
The show will be aired during a show on this week (Wednesday 14th [...]

The Watersports Academy hosted a day-long charity fundraising event on Sunday 3rd May, raising over £1,000 for Windsurf 4 Cancer.
This watersports multi-event day had experts and novices sailing from ’sunrise to sunset’ - yes, we were up at 5:30am on Bank Holiday Sunday! - plus fun racing events throughout the day, a delicious BBQ [...]