Britain on the Cheap

The Best Western Plus Castle Inn in Keswick is offering 50% off on two-night stays, for two people, from £34/$55 per person per night. The deal is timed to coincide with the Keswick Mountain Festival May 16-20, five days of dragon-boat racing, Canadian canoeing, kayaking, climbing, walking and activities for children.    

CIE Tours is offering $200 savings per couple on the land portion of any Scottish, English or Welsh tour of eight days/seven nights or longer, or any British/Irish combination tour when you book it with our roundtrip airfare. Book by May 31 and use code 053112VS100. CIE Tours also has discounts for younger and older [...]

Macdonald Hotels & Resorts has a 25% spring break deal across the UK,  now through June 4.  If you book a stay in April, you’ll also receive a cream tea for two, excluding Saturdays. Reserve a room by April 9, including dinner, and you’re eligible for early check-in or late check-out. And every room receives [...]

The Blue Badge Guides have added another Olympic Afternoon Walk to their schedule for 1:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Friday from the Bromley-by-Bow underground station on the District/Hammersmith and City lines. The guides will discuss past gems of London’s industrial past, why East London was chosen to host, and the latest on the athletes and [...]

Are you caught up in Sherlock Holmes, especially with the new film, “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows?” You can splash out with “The Sherlock Holmes package” in the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Suite at the Langham, London. The hotel, opened by HRH The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in 1865, figures in [...]

London is the only city to host the modern Games three times, and Blue Badge Guides are leading all-day tours of the Walk for Gold – London’s Olympic Heritage Feb. 18 and April 10. You’ll visit all three London Olympic sites on foot and by tube in zones 1-4. The tours begins 9.30 a.m. outside [...]

All of the UK will be celebrating Charles Dickens‘ 200th birthday on Feb. 7, but the spotlight will shine brightest on his birthplace in Portsmouth. You can plan ahead for a free timed admission slot to the Charles Dickens Birthplace on both Feb. 5, an extra free day, and on Feb. 7. Both days will [...]

Can you think about summer holidays in the cold? Parkdean has an early-bird offer if you book by Jan. 31–up to £70/$107 off a July or August holiday at one of their holiday parks. They have 24 holiday parks in coastal, country and woodland locations throughout the UK in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Norfolk, South [...]

Win a two-night stay at The Ritz, London, through Britain Magazine. In celebration of its special London issue, the winner and guest will stay in an Executive King Room and receive breakfast on both mornings and a three-course dinner on one of the evenings in the Ritz Restaurant. For a winner who lives outside the [...]

British Airways is having a winter sale to London, with a $699 economy round-trip from JFK to Heathrow. This includes all taxes, fees and charges, and you need to book by Jan. 24. If you’d like to book the flight and three nights at the Tavistock, it’s $842 pp, for stays now through March 31. [...]