hi we go to nottingham to visit our son, we come up from plymouth, he lives not far uni, one only twenty mins or less away is Thornton holt they have a web site, we stayed there last year and it is nice and cheap and open all year round, or another one is at shardlow by the donnington park roundabout that is ok as well, but we notts in november again, thorntons holt is near stragglethorpe and the pierrepoint water sports place not far from uni we pass the uni on the way into notts, Good luck