The Best Experience Days For Movie Fans

If you know someone who can't get enough of the Fast & Furious franchise, then this is the experience is for them. Experience-goers will learn the art of high-speed driving and rubber burning as they learn the fundamentals of drifting from a professional (and qualified) instructor, before pitting their skills against another racer. Cars used may include the Nissan 200sx, Nissan R33 Skyline and Lexus IS200.

Fans of wartime epics will jump at the chance to get behind the levers of a 17-ton battlefield behemoth. After some initial instruction, they'll be faced with an obstacle course…twice – once with hatch up, and again with the vision-limiting hatch down. It's pretty closely monitored though, so there won't be any Kelly's Heroes re-enactments.

A crew of four takes command of a (paint) battle ready FV432, each taking charge of a specific tank operation, including driving, spotting and firing (it rotates so everyone gets a go). The crew will get a chance to practice their shots and manoeuvres before going up against a rival tank - they won't be going track-to-track with a German Tiger 131 like in 2014's Fury, but it's a real adrenaline ride and provides a great insight into tank operation.

It turns out that the place that looks most like 1920's Birmingham is 2020's Liverpool – hence the BBC's decision to have the city as a primary filming location for the hit series, Peaky Blinders. This coach tour will have any Shelby fan grinning as they visit ten set locations in the city and around Wirral and west of the River Mersey.

This walking tour will have rom-com fans treading the same streets as Bridget Jones, the 30-something hapless bachelorette, as they're guided to over 12 film locations. In addition to seeing sights of London, tour goers will be treated to behind-the-scenes facts and get to snap a picture at the door to Bridget's apartment. For a quintessential rom-com weekend, this tour is perfect when doubled up with the 'Rom Com Walking Tour of London', which'll add the locations of Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill into the mix.

Enter James Bond's world of glamour and danger with this three-hour mini-coach tour of 007's London locations. Guests will be treated to locations seen across the franchise's catalogue, including The World Is Not Enough, Goldeneye and Spectre, in addition to real-world intelligence hotspots, such as the MI-6 HQ. For the full Bond experience, book a stay in the actual apartment from 2015's Spectre.

Do you, or one of your nearest and dearest, fancy themselves as the next Jason Bourne or Black Widow? Well, put their claims to the test with the Spy Academy, the ultimate tactical espionage training experience. Over this half-day session, led by ex-police and Special Forces operatives, participants will be trained in a number of unarmed and combat skills, including crossbows, sniper rifles and body combat, before testing their reflexes in a pistol draw competition.

If you're horror-loving recipient is looking for a fright a little more supernatural, then send them to Scotland to witness Edinburgh's ghostly goings on. A cloaked guide will lead them down into the shadowy depths of Blair Street, the eighteenth century vaults-turned-slums which lay under the cobbled streets of Old Edinburgh, to hear of the desperate squalor and rampant crime which, if the rumours are to be believed, left more than a few discontented spirits in its wake.

Whether they're the lumbering fools of Dawn Of The Dead and The Walking Dead or the furious-sprinters of 28 Days Later, film fans, much like their gamer cousins, adore zombies. With this undead experience, the thrill and challenge of the apocalypse is brought into the real world. Players are abandoned with a shotgun and limited ammo, and over the next three hours they have one task – survive. Working in a group, players will face tactical decisions, twisting plots and the ceaseless onslaught of an undead horde.

The perfect gift for a gangster movie aficionado. The recipient will join Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels actor Vas Blackwood as he explores a combination of locations from films such as The Crying Game, Face and Lock, Stock, as well as those associated with underground mobster activity, including the Blind Beggar pub, the site of Ronnie Kray's infamous murder. Following the tour, there will also be a Q&A with Blackwood.

If you're looking for a gift with an edge of refinement, sophistication and righteous joie de vivre, maybe a trip to a five-star hotel for a night of classic cinema and cocktails is what's needed. Shoreditch's Courthouse Hotel is a former magistrates court and home to one of the largest private cinemas in London, with a bar located in the former holding cells. Past screenings include The Shining, Legend and Whiplash. The full upcoming schedule is available here.

It's time for a Top Gun fan to live out their wildest dreams and become Maverick. This experience sees the participant taking to the skies to recreate some of the on-screen g-force slamming aerial manoeuvres, co-piloting a T67 Firefly with a former military pilot. After a few aerobatic flights of increasing intensity, it's time for the Maverick-wannabe to take control, following the instructor's guidance to nail one or two tricks of their own. This one is guaranteed to generate a few adrenaline junkies. Saturday flights are available separately.