Holiday venue providing lots of entertainment after surprised response (5)
I believe the answer is:
corfu
'holiday venue' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'lots of entertainment after surprised response' is the wordplay.
'lots of' means to remove the last letter (most but not all of the letters).
'entertainment' becomes 'fun' (fun is something entertaining).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'surprised response' becomes 'cor' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'fun' with its last letter taken off is 'fu'.
'fu' after 'cor' is 'CORFU'.
'providing' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for corfu that I've seen before include "holiday venue!" , "Major holiday island off west coast of Greece" , "Holiday location" , "Ionian holiday island" , "Greek holiday island" .)