Britain on the Cheap

Rooms are still open for the royal wedding April 29! The official Prince William and Kate Middleton wedding site has all the latest details. If you simply can’t resist, there are still spots! The Colonnade Hotel in London’s Little Venice is offering a room-only rate of £184/$290 during the royal wedding weekend. Ashdown Park Hotel [...]

There are still hotel spots in London for the royal wedding April 29! Look for the latest news on the official Prince William and Kate Middleton wedding site, then pounce on your best price! Doyle Royal Wedding, April 15-May 8. The three London hotels of the Doyle Collection– The Marylebone Hotel, The Bloomsbury Hotel and [...]

Don’t give up if you really want to be in London for the royal wedding April 29! Check out the official Prince William and Kate Middleton royal wedding site for all the latest details, then book your hotel. Here are some hotels whose rates have not gone through the roof. Apex Hotels, April 28-30. Apex [...]

Starting today, you can follow Queen Elizabeth II on Facebook, which she and the royal family are adding to their Twitter, Flickr, YouTube accounts. There will be no “friending” and certainly no poking, nor can you give her e-gifts. But you can follow royal engagements around the UK and send comments to the Palace. For [...]

Members of the Royal Oak Foundation can save with two-for-one tickets to Strawberry Hill, one of England’s most elegant and eccentric homes. The neo-Gothic castle has been restored for its grand unveiling Oct. 2. Horace Walpole, son of England’s first Prime Minister, revived the Gothic style and transformed a small house into an ornate, asymmetrical [...]

With the highest castle-to-person ratio in the world – 641 castles to three million people – and a long, turbulent history of hangings, riots and rebellions, the ghosts of Wales do not go quietly. Check out some of their centuries-old grudges at their old haunting grounds. Book into a haunted hotel. Lady Gray is the [...]

Don’t give up on summer! Bailiffscourt Hotel at Climping, near Arundel, West Sussex, is welcoming up to two children to share their parents’ room free. And everyone receives free admission to Arundel Castle. The mock-medieval manor house has a spa with indoor and outdoor pools and a private path leading to the beach. Through September, [...]

Have you always wanted to see inside the great buildings and tiny houses of London? Maybe the Old Palace in Croydon where Elizabeth I visited the bishops, the Studios at Kensington Court Mews or Benjamin Franklin’s House in Westminster? Now’s your chance with the free Open House London, the capital’s great architectural showcase Sept. 18-19. [...]

von Essen’s Thornbury Castle in Gloucestershire, the only Tudor castle in England to be opened as a hotel, is offering a three-for-two special for the August Bank Holiday. The deal, valid Aug. 27-29, is £560/$870 for three nights in a classic room or £760/$1,180 for a deluxe room, including breakfast. Once a residence of Henry [...]

Looking to splash out a bit this holiday season? The Orient-Express has planned special excursions and day trips aboard British Pullman and Northern Belle trains throughout the UK from the end of November through New Year’s. Day trips begin with brunch and a Bellini on the outward journey and a four-course meal with champagne and [...]