By TANIA PHILLIPS
THE Happy Valley Retreat at Stanthorpe has been saddling up for a Christmas in July with a difference.
The popular venue has been playing host to “a Western Christmas in July” for the past two weeks with three more of the Saturday night events planned.
Owner Geoff Davenport said they had been holding the Christmas events each July for the past five years.
“We get the same group bookings every year, so we decided to mix it up a bit,” he said.
Last year, they held highly successful medieval Christmas in July groups and so they planned the western theme this year.
Already over the two nights combined, they have attracted almost 200 people with three more events to go (and bookings still being taken).
“People are really getting into the spirit of it,” he laughed.
“My wife Dee and I are thinking of having a pirates theme next year.”
