Hopetoun House extend dates for Wondrous Woods by an extra week

Hopetoun House’s festive lighting trail has extended their dates by an extra week due to an overwhelming amount of people visiting.

The Wondrous Woods have been extended for an extra week

More dates are set to be added for people of all ages to visit between November 16 and November 22.

The Wondrous Woods trail offers visitors a walk around the grounds of Hopetoun House with spectacular lights and sounds winding through the trees.

The spacious grounds have meant that 21CC group, who designed and produced the trail, have been able to deliver the creative journey and ensure that visitors can remain socially distant and adhere to the safety guidelines.

Geoff Crow, Director of 21CC Group says, “I have quite literally been blown away by the positive response that we’ve received for Wondrous Woods over the last few weeks. As of yesterday we were completely sold out and with so many people still enquiring about availability, we took the decision to put on a further week of tickets to allow more people to enjoy the trail.”

The Earl of Hopetoun added: “This is the first time we have hosted such an ambitious event at night and it’s hugely exciting, following such a difficult year for us all, to develop something so different for Hopetoun.

"With the outbreak of the global pandemic earlier on this year, visitor figures to our house were looking somewhat bleak; since its opening, however, Wondrous Woods has successfully attracted over 50 per cent of our annual footfall in just a few weeks which is an astounding achievement.”

The 21CC Wondrous Woods production has also enabled Mr Crow to bring back his full event management and technical production workforce from furlough following the pandemic and in addition to this, over 120 people have been employed in the full delivery of the trail over the past four weeks.

With the trail attracting over 50 per cent of the annual visitor figures to Hopetoun House in the space of four weeks, it is anticipated that the local economic impact of Wondrous Woods is in the region of £250,000.

Tickets are on sale to visit the Wondrous Woods from See Tickets.

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