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The Bournemouth Mini & Junior Rugby Festival 2025

Burleigh Travel are the official and sole provider for the Bournemouth Mini & Junior Rugby Festival 2025

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The Bournemouth Mini & Junior Rugby Festival 2025

General Rugby Festival Information

For over 10 years Burleigh Travel have been arranging for teams to travel to Bournemouth and participate in festivals that combine a great mix of local and touring teams, resulting in this being the largest and most established festival destination we offer, which provides rugby for age groups from U7 through to U13.

Tour Highlights…

Your Accommodation…

PGL Osmington Bay, located on the Jurassic Coast, close to both Bournemouth and Weymouth. Osmington Bay has some amazing facilities including a sports hall and an all-weather activity zone.

Your accommodation will mainly consist of modern 4-berth rooms together with a number of twin rooms, all of which have en-suite facilities.

All Inclusive Daily Activities…

Each of the players will receive a number of exciting daily activities as part of their tour package, such as abseiling, archery, giant swing and zip-wire. These will be tailored around your rugby.

And Evening Activities…

We appreciate the difficulty in keeping your group entertained in the evenings so you will be delighted to know that your program for the weekend will also include an evening activity program each night for players which will be a great opportunity for team bonding and fun.

The activities include camp fires, capture the flag and sports night!

Meals…

Another key benefit of this option is that all your meals are included in your tour cost. So there are no headaches of trying to find large venues to accommodate your group.

Meals are freshly cooked, balanced and will give your group plenty of energy to keep them going throughout the day when playing rugby.

Alternative Accommodation…

Some groups prefer the comfort of a hotel and with our hotels centrally located near Bournemouth Town Centre, Beach and Pier, this may be the ideal choice for your group! Your group will have en-suite rooms, based on bed and breakfast and would have so many exciting opportunities right on your doorstep.

There is also the option of holiday park accommodation in the area.  Please ask our sports tour coordinators for more information on this.

Visit Bournemouth Beach…

Visit Bournemouth

While there is plenty do to at your Accommodation another reason for touring to Bournemouth is to enjoy this wonderful beach location!

A day at the beach is a great way to enjoy some group time together without breaking the bank. Simply enjoy a light training session on the sand, compete in an inter club volley ball competition or see whose brave enough to swim in the sea!

Volleyball on Bournemouth Beach

Take on the Pier Zip…

For those groups seeking some more high octane adventure you can enjoy the The PierZip! The world’s first pier to shore zip wire, boasting a 250 metre dual zip wire. The dual zip line means you can ride with family or team mates and challenge them to race to the shore! Launching from the Zip Tower platform 25 metres above the sea, thrill-seekers race out and “zip surf” 250 meters over the top of the waves to land on the beach!

The Rugby…

The Rugby will be hosted by Swanage & Wareham Rugby Club and Oakmeadians Rugby Club – The only rugby club in Bournemouth and a stones throw from the popular Bournemouth Beach. The festival will take place on Sunday 6th April and for those who would like an extra day of rugby, this will be on Saturday 5th April.

The festival will be run in accordance with England Rugby regulations which will ensure your teams will play as much rugby as is permitted for your age group.

At the Festival you will be joined by other touring teams as well as the hosts and other local clubs to make for an enjoyable and memorable experience.

Extra excursion…

Centre VR – You can enjoy Europe’s largest virtual reality venue with 30 stations of the very best VR headsets with all the top titles available to play multiplayer or solo.

Creating Memories…

Burleigh Travel are very proud of the tours we have provided for more than 30 years. We have heard so many stories over the years of team building, new friendships developing and life long memories being made. Many players, coaches and parents have missed out on the touring experience in recent times, but we hope you choose to join us at the Bournemouth Festival to create these memories for your team!

Contact us now to reserve your place.

If you would like to see further details about this event, please download details here.

 

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Testimonials

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    Please pass on our thanks to your team and also everyone at PGL for a very good weekend. The PGL site and staff were easily the best activity/accommodation I have been to over the 8 of these tours I’ve been on – every request was taken with a smile and dealt with well, the food was good, accommodation frankly palatial compared to many.

    The rugby on the Sunday was well run, the teams there all played hard but fair and in a good spirit and everyone was accommodating.

    Thank you from Hitchin Rugby club.

    Echo this!  My husband and son have come back smelly, tired but with huge smiles.

    Thanks all so much for your hard work putting the weekend together.  We’ve had loads of smashing feedback and already a question on the dates for the next tour.

    Big thanks to all the team,

    Hitchin RFC Minis, Bournemouth Festival (April 2024)

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    I just wanted to say what a fantastic weekend we had. From U7 to U13 the players parents and coaches, all 297 of us have had the best tour to date. The organisation was top drawer and all seemed to flow perfect. The park was awesome as it was previously such a shame they are no longer hosting rugby festivals. 

     

    Anyway big high five to the whole team you smashed it. 

    Enfield Ignatians  RFC U7-U13, Bournemouth Tour (April 2022)

     

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    From my point of view as organiser I would like to say a big thank you to your staff. From the moment I contacted you my role was made much easier.

    Falkirk RFC U15 at the Bournemouth Festival

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    Fantastic weekend of rugby. Our first rugby festival with Grasshoppers, really well organised, great venue, facilities and catering. Brilliant to see so many teams enjoying themselves.

    Grasshoppers Minis, Bournemouth Tour 2022

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    Everyone that went thoroughly enjoyed the whole weekend from start to finish. The Holiday Park was fantastic and the actual Festival itself was outstanding.

    Okehampton RFC U14's, 15's & 16's at the Bournemouth Festival

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    We have recently, as a club, travelled to the Bournemouth festival and everyone had such a great time! It was super easy to mange from a club point of view and we are keen to try a new tour next year.

    Witney RFC U10, Bournemouth Festival (April 2022)

     

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