Britain on the Cheap

On July 14, St. Paul’s Cathedral will reveal its new exhibition, Oculus: an eye into St. Paul’s. The first project of its kind in a cathedral, Oculus is a 270° film experience that brings 1400 years of history to life. Located in the former Treasury in the crypt, Oculus takes visitors to Saxon London amidst [...]

Let them eat cake at the Bastille Day London Garden Party July 11 at Battersea Park. The free London festival celebrates the French-speaking community and all Francophiles in one of the largest Bastille Day celebrations outside of France. Join the large street fair and open-air picnic.

The sumptuous Hampton Court Palace Flower Show continues through July 11 at the royal palace on the Thames. This Royal Horticultural Society spectacle is the largest of its kind in the world. Day tickets start at £22/$33; less for evening hours.

Dreaming of a Cornish cottage this month? Cornish Horizons has savings up to 25% off in July. Save £268/$393 at The Sailmakers, a Grade 11 listed sail loft sympathetically converted into a contemporary holiday home in the center of old Padstow, with under-cover parking. Starting July 16, the loft, for up to six, is 25% [...]

Love David Suchet as Agatha Christie’s great Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the MASTERPIECE Mystery! Series? He’s back with three new episodes on PBS, and one is a remake of  “Murder on the Orient-Express.” An hour before the showing July 7, Suchet—sans Poirot’s mustache, accent and prissy walk—will board the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express to explore the [...]

Hideaways has discounted cottage stays for three and seven nights in Somerset and Dorset during July. Little Barton near Stogumber, has a decked garden ‘look-out’ area for admiring the views down to a woodland glade with a large pond, trout stream and log cabin. In neighbouring Dorset, Gunville Cottage sleeps two or three in an [...]

Travelers to London can explore the dance, music, food and handicrafts of India’s Kerala region with a free carnival noon-8 p.m. July 7 and 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. July 8 at Riverside Walkway, Gabriel’s Wharf on the capital’s South Bank. You can also sample Ayurvedic health and beauty treatments and home spa massage oils. Kerala [...]

Radisson Edwardian, with 12 London properties, is offering a summer promotion July 23-Sept. 5, with a 20% value-added savings. Promotional rates start at from £129/$188 per room, per night, based on double occupancy at the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow; the rate for the other London city-center hotels starts at £160/$233 per room, per night. The promotion [...]

Best Western Kenwick Park Hotel, Lincolnshire, is offering two spa treatments, dinner and bed and breakfast for £99/$146 per person. The hotel, set in a 320-acre park estate, has an on-site health and leisure club, with a heated indoor pool, Jacuzzi, steam room, sauna, gym, squash courts, tennis courts and aerobic studio. Rather skip the [...]

Be sure to order your new, free Yorkshire Gardens guide to visit the suddenly famous “Welcome to Yorkshire’s Rhubarb Crumble and Custard Garden,” winner of the People’s Choice award for best garden at this year’s Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. The garden, full of horticultural puns, will be presented at the Great Yorkshire Show [...]