Ticket launch date for popular UK spring flower fields that sell out in an hour (2024)

TICKETS will go on sale next week for Norfolk Tulips - a famous tulip field in the UK.

Every year, a colorful garden in the market town of King's Lynn resembles one ofthe Netherlandsmost famous attractions.

But the online queues are not for the faint-hearted, with more than 80,000 people competing for a ticket last year.

Located just 15 minutes from King's Lynn, Norfolk Tulips will be open for just nine days in 2024.

This year, the brightly-coloured field will be open from April 18, 2024 until April 29, 2024.

However, the field will close to visitors on both April 23 and 24, 2024 for essential crop maintenance.

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Norfolk Tulips will be open between 10am until 4.30pm, with the last entry permitted at 3.30pm.

Those looking to go this year can buy a ticket once they go on sale on Monday, April 8, at 10am.

Those who want to buy thetickets, which sell out fast, will need to visit the Norfolk Tulips website where they'll be placed in an online queue.

Entry tickets cost £7.50 for a full-paying adult and £5 for children aged between five and 17, with all proceeds going to the Norfolk Hospice Tapping House.

Guests will also need to pay an additional £2 for parking.

Visitors are not allowed to pick the tulips, and dogs are not allowed on the site.

Holidaymakers were keen to get tickets to the popular Norfolk attraction last year, as they sold out within an hour.

Last year, fake tickets were also sold online because of the field's popularity.

Norfolk Hospice Tapping House previously said: "We have been made aware of people trying to resell their tickets, please be aware of who you are buying tickets from as some of these people are scammers."

Norfolk Tulips is a two-and-a-half-hour drive away fromLondon, and it's a 90-minute drive from Cambridge.

The site can be reached on a directtrainfrom London Kings Cross to King's Lynn.

From the station, visitors will need to take a taxi to the gardens.

We've found return train tickets for £45 for a full-paying adult who doesn't own a railcard.

Norfolk Tulips has been praised by previous visitors.

One person wrote: "Beautiful tulip fields, no need to travel to The Netherlands when we have them here in the UK."

Another person added: "Beautiful tulip fields that are only open for two weeks. The facilities and arrangements were great, with lots of staff volunteers there to help."

There are plenty of other seasonal flower fields to visit in the UK, including Alnwick Gardens.

Alnwick Gardens is home to a 328-strongcherry orchard, which transforms into a sea of white every spring.

Rivalling the spring blossoms of Mount Fuji and Tokyo,Japan, The Alnwick Garden is the ideal location to capture the tree's brief flowers.

Whether it be for romantic walks or pictures for Instagram, the orchard is one of the UK's most popular cherry blossom locations.

The orchard's type of Taihaku cherry tree named Great White is known for its snow-coloured flowers that can grow up to 6cm in width.

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Meanwhile, Brit holidaymakers who want to visit a field of flowers might want to try the Rose Valley inBulgaria.

Located south of theBalkan Mountains, the Rose Valley is entirely unique to Bulgaria.