Isle of Wight Festival of Rugby
Take Your Club On The Ferry Accross The Solent To Hampshires Beautiful Island For A Truley Special Tour Experience
accommodation Based On
- Caravans
- Chalets
- Self Bring Tents, Caravans, Motorhomes inclusive of electricity supply
- Pre Pitched Tents & Cabins inclusive of electricity supply
- Outdoor Pursuit Leisure Resorts Offering Family Rooms, Multiple Occupancy Rooms
- Hotels Rooms For Single, Twin, Double, Occupancy
Activities
- Indoor Pool
- Zip Wire
- Lazer Challenge
- Archery
- Abseiling
- Tree Tops Swing Line
- Fencing
- Obstacle Course
- Aeroball
- Leap Of Faith From Tower
- Sports Fields
Evening Fun
- Licensed Family Bar
- Live Bands, Performers & Entertainers
- Music
ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL OF RUGBY
MAY DAY BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND 3RD TO 6TH MAY 2024
Age Groups
- U7
- U8
- U9
- U10
- U11
- U12
- U13
- U14
- U15
- U16
Summary of Festival
The saying goes London to the Isle of Wight in under two hours, however no matter where you live it is so easy to get there as the roads links to the ferry ports are so good.
What a tour this is for your Mini & Junior teams, the excitement of heading overseas on the ferry and spending the weekend on the beautiful island of the Isle of Wight and before you ask “you don’t need a passport”.
Open to all age groups from U7 through to U16 staying in holiday villages, adventure centres and hotels across the island no matter which of our accommodation options you end up staying at the stunning pitches of Medina Sports Village are no more than twenty minutes away from everywhere.
The ultimate end of season rugby tour for your club awaits, it is strongly recommended you register your interest early as accommodation is limited for this festival and we are expecting a lot of interest for this very exciting end of season tour.
Together with our host club partners who are the Island’s wonderful Vectis RFC we are excited to welcome teams from across the United Kingdom and beyond to what is sure to be one of the UK’s top mini & junior rugby festivals.
Isle of Wight FESTIVAL OF RUGBY Quick Summary
MAY DAY BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND
Spend The 3RD TO 6TH May 2024 on the SUNNY Isle of Wight
FIRST CLASS NATURAL GRASS PITCHES
If You Love The Seaside This Is The Tour For You As Everywhere Is Close To The Beaches
EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM
Swimming Pools, Night Time Entertainment At Much Of The Accommodation On Offer
A WONDERFUL HOST RUGBY CLUB READY TO WELCOME YOU
The Islands Rugby Club That Develops The Future Players & Stars
WITH SUCH A GREAT SELECTION OF ACCOMMODATION PROVIDERS, Entertainment AND ATTRACTIONS ON THE ISLAND THERE’S SO MUCH TO DO
Choice Of Accommodation, Many Of Them With Great Indoor Pools
Superb Choice Of Accommodation Options
So Close To The Ocean And Great Beaches
If You Fancy Bringing Your Own Tent, Motorhome, or Caravan Or You Want To Hire A Tent Of Us, We Have A Superb Site For You
Modern clean showers
Washbasin Cubicles
Family bathrooms
Family shower rooms
Accessible shower
Accessible Toilets
Laundry And Washing Up Area
Amazing Views
Ladies Vanity Area
All with the luxury of underfloor heating in the facilities rooms to make your stay more comfortable.
There’s plenty of space for you to pitch a tent or park your own caravan or motorhome. All of the pitches have electric hook up, many with water serviced pitches and mains drains and some have hard standings. Along with all the other extensive camping facilities onsite including showers, a launderette and toilets other’s everything that you might need from a great camping weekend away.
And to top it all up the indoor pool, holiday park facilities and evening entertainment is just a couple minutes’ walk away.
AS WELL AS OUR WONDERFUL CARAVAN PARKS WE ALSO HAVE A WIDE SELECTION OF HOTELS TO OFFER YOU THAT MEET EVERYONE’S NEEDS FROM BUDGET HOTELS TO LUXURY HOTELS ALL WITHIN A 20-MINUTE DRIVE OF THE RUGBY FESTIVAL AND MANY OF THE HOTELS UNDER 10 - MINUTES’ DRIVE AWAY.
How about one of our hotels with outdoor or indoor swimming pools from budget through to luxury options
What will The plan be for the Weekend
OUR HOST RUGBY CLUB ARE THE WONDERFUL VECTIS RFC
The islands mini & junior rugby club Vectis RFC as our host club for the Isle of Wight Festival of Rugby and we are extremely proud to have such a highly regarded club as our festival partners.
With a long and successful history of creating talented rugby players over the years, the heartbeat of youth rugby on the island all those clubs who join us at the Isle of Wight Festival of Rugby will experience a very special tour for the teams on this beautiful island with our wonderful host club and the superb facilities of Medina Sports pitches to play the festival at.
We can just picture the scene at Medina Sports Fields as the live entertainment plays, our host club members offering their friendship to the touring clubs and of course keeping the drinks flowing whilst the young gifted players perform on the rugby fields being played all around us at these first-class pitches on this stunning island where the weather is some of the best to be found in the whole of the UK.
EXCITING TIMES ON TOUR AS YOU TAKE YOUR PLAYERS ON BOARD THE FERRY TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Just a short ten-minute crossing by Hovercraft from Southsea for foot passengers or a forty minute to fifty-five-minute ferry crossing to the island is all it takes by foot, car or coach ferry passengers’ dependant on which ferry crossing you choose from. You have the options of Southampton, Portsmouth or Lymington.
The Isle of Wight Festival of Rugby have special reduced rate ferry crossings for teams and their supporters crossing on the ferry when coming to the festival.
Frequently Asked Questions
We aim to offer each team taking part three matches on the Saturday and two matches on the Sunday as the set target, however this is dependent on the number of teams which enter at the age group you are part of and can vary from festival to festival.
What we always look to achieve is offering each team taking part in the festival the maximum permitted playing time allowed under RFU age grade rules for playing time on each day.
On occasions this is possible but is subject to the space and number of teams in the festival, if you can only play on one of the days, please let us know at the time you are making the booking for your team. Please note, at all festivals we operate priority is given to teams who can take part on two days and we may not be able to confirm your one-day entry until one month prior to the festival.
Yes, you are welcome to bring your own food and drink to the rugby festival, although we ask you to respect the host rugby club and remember the host club will have gone to a lot of trouble to make available food and beverages for you to purchase at a reasonable price and to enjoy throughout the weekend at the rugby festival.
At holiday parks and hotels, you are free to bring your own food and drink in to your rooms and consume them in your rooms or outside tents, motorhomes and caravans but you should not take your own food and drink into the public areas of campsites, holiday parks or hotels.
Great news, we look forward to welcoming you at the festival. Either go to the on-line registration form via the following link Contact Us or send us an email to register@tour-international.com.
If you have WhatsApp simple send a message to 07957 446172 and let us know your name, your club name, if you wanted to enter all age groups at the club or the mini section age groups, or the junior section age groups or specific age groups that would like to take part and we will message you back soon after we receive your WhatsApp.
Alternatively, if you want to register your club team (s), go to our website and complete the registration form and one of our support team will be in touch with you very soon after to coordinate with you the festival entry.
Yes, it is, when you participate in the festival you also book accommodation to stay at throughout the weekend and in doing so this also enables you to enter your team (s) to take part in the festival and for supporters to access the rugby festival venue and cheer you on.
Teams of all standards are welcome at Tour International festivals; you need not worry what standard of level of play you are at as we will structure the rugby festival so that by the end of the festival, we do all we can to match teams of similar ability so they are playing each other.
There will be many different levels of tournament categories which teams will qualify for after the first day of play based on the results from your day one matches, leaving you confident that you know come day two of the rugby festival you will be playing against teams of similar ability in a competition for silverware regardless of you day one results.
