Wooden Garage- any recommendations?

[ScummyMummy]

One of my twins is desperate for a wooden garage- you know the sort- lifts, car washes, lots of levels. Would love to get him one for Xmas. Any thoughts as to where I can get a good, not too expensive one? I know they can be pricey... Also need ideas for a present for the other twin that is roughly equivalent in scale (tho cheaper in price is just fine!). I would usually get something as pricey as a garage as a joint present but it doesn't seem fair as only one of them is really longing for it... I'd like to get the other boy some sort of wooden play set that is different and have seen a lovely pirate ship that I think he'd love- he is often to be found sporting a home made eye patch and saying "ha ha! my hearties"- but the ship is considerably smaller in size than the garage and I foresee ructions... Help gratefully received!

Where are you scummy? Elphicks in Farnham, Surrey have a catalogue with wooden pyramids, boats etc advertised for Christmas, I thikn the pyramid was £27. Memorisethis.com has wooden toys for sale too, though they don't give dimensions so it is a bit hard to se how big they are. Elc had wooden stuff last year at reasonable prices, and our local toy shop in Godalming has a massive garage reduced to £45 from £65.

Scummy, have a look at Dawson & Son they've loads of wooden toys.
Lots of them are from 'Plan Toys', they're a Thailand based firm who use rubberwood trees that are passed their best latex producing years, previously they would have just been burned for charcol.

Have just found this great site, which seems to be full of wooden toys. Try this .

I've spent a lot of time today looking for the cheapest site to buy the Plan Toys Pirate Ship and Noahs Ark from. One of the cheaper sites was this one , which has the garage for £39.99 plus £3.50 P&P. It has lots of other wooden toys too (the Pirate Ship was £24.99 and not as large as the garage...)

Scummy, can wholeheartedly recommend the Plan Toys (thanks for the conscience-enhancing info, Twink) wooden parking garage with lift and helipad. You'd have to buy the separate petrol station with canopy to get carwash, however (they're not stupid).
Peter Jones and John Lewis do them and as far as I know, no mail-order firm matches their price once you have delivery costs included.
Ds plays with his a lot and watching dh cuss his way through assembling it was an additional pleasure.
Brio do a pirates' railway to their usual high standards - hadn't seen the Plan one, sure it will be as nice as their other stuff.
If you do go the mail order route, another vote for Dawsons. Speedy, personal service, lovely selection of wooden toys.

ELC wooden garage, its lovely, ds got it for his birthday, fits to all brio style railway, and comes with a car wash, I think it is £49.99. But if you make you first order online from them you get 10% off, this is what my MIL did.

Thank you ever so much, everyone. Have been visiting all your recommended sites and have purchased 2 of the smaller Plan Toys playsets- pirate ship and spaceship- the boy who's into the garage is also heavily into space and I hadn't seen the space shuttle before. That makes a roughly equivalent but distinct present for each of them to open so will now think about whether I can afford to REALLY spoil them by getting them a garage to share as well. The airport and fire station are both gorgeous looking toys too- I think I could get a bit hooked on the whole Plan City concept given half a chance! I think I'll go to John Lewis and the elc and drool over them all and then decide whether to treat myself, er, my boys, I mean.