Britain on the Cheap

Save 30% when you book the Best Western Kilima Hotel, York, before March 31. The rate is $117/£78, including breakfast. The Kilima, a former Victorian rectory, has a Turkish steam room, an indoor swimming pool and fitness center.

An Easter bunny, chocolate eggs, spring flowers and a welcome glass of champagne await guests booking an Easter break at Combe House, a Grade I Elizabethan manor near Exeter. Two-night breaks taking in Easter Friday, Saturday or Sunday, April 2-4, start at $952/£590 for two people sharing a room, including a three-course, candlelit dinner with [...]

Save half when you book at The White Swan hotel in the center of the historic market town of Alnwick, Northumberland, now throughout March. The Winter Warmer package at the 300-year-old coaching inn is $75/£49.50 per person sharing for an overnight stay with dinner and breakfast, a bottle of sparkling prosecco per couple and entrance [...]

Are you infatuated with Emma, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility? Then the new Wayfarers’ Jane Austen walk through Hampshire may be for you. The walk, rated easy at six to 10 miles a day, will stop at Steventon, home to Jane’s father’s rectory; the village of Chawton, later home of Jane [...]

Golfers can enjoy one night’s dinner, bed and breakfast and two rounds of golf at Abbotsley Hotel, Golf & Country Club, in Cambridgeshire for $95/£59, one of more than 1,500 venues from Your Golf Travel.com in its new 2010 brochure. Europe’s largest golf travel resource focuses on 52 resorts and 18 tour destinations in the [...]

Children stay and eat free at Buckland Tout-Saints hotel, a 300-year-old manor house near Kingsbridge and Dartmouth in South Devon. The offer saves $104/£70 each child and applies until the end of March–including half-term–for up to two under-15s sharing their parents’ room. A family of four now pays $337/£209 for an overnight stay with breakfast [...]

Golfers can enjoy one night’s dinner, bed and breakfast and two rounds of golf at Abbotsley Hotel, Golf & Country Club, in Cambridgeshire for $95/£59, one of more than 1,500 venues from Your Golf Travel.com in its new 2010 brochure. The website focuses on 52 resorts and 18 tour destinations in the UK, as well [...]

Focus Hotels has planned special lunches and getaway room rates around the country for Mother’s Day, March 14. A two-course lunch at The Oak Hotel, Wigan, starts at $17/£10.95 per adult; double rooms from $85/£55 based on two sharing.
The Hatherton Country House Hotel, Stafford, has a three-course lunch for $20/ £12.95 per person, and [...]

Cabin fever? Best Western Keavil House Hotel, Crossford, near Dunfermline, Scotland, is offering a spa break from $97/£60 per night. The package includes use of the Health Club and Spa and a double room B&B. The spa has a steam room and indoor pool for a bit of exercise and unwinding.

Hold onto your wallet! “Enron,” staged by Rupert Goold’s Headlong theater company, reveals one of the most infamous scandals in financial history through music, dance and video. A Superbreak package Feb. 19 is $214/£127.50 per person, based on two sharing, with one night’s B&B at the City Inn Westminster hotel and a top-priced ticket.