Britain on the Cheap

Zicasso of San Francisco, an online luxury travel service, is offering an upmarket England tour with a “Downton Abbey” theme from July to September. The seven-day trip includes Highclere Castle, home of the fictional Crawleys, and Bampton, the Oxfordshire village that doubles as a Yorkshire village in “Downton Abbey.” The custom tour also visits Oxford, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

The Royal Oak Foundation, the American arm of the National Trust, wishes everyone a happy holiday with a lovely photo gallery of National Trust gardens in the snow and frost. Enjoy 14 images from The Telegraph, sweeping from Kent to Suffolk to Northumberland.

Now’s the chance to snap up 2-for-1 tickets to “Dickens and London” at the Museum of London. Opening Dec. 9, this will be the largest exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Regular adult tickets are £8/$13, or £7/$11 advance purchase. The exhibition will examine the central relationship between Dickens and [...]

Hurry! Today’s the last day to enter to win a trip to London from stylish clothes retailer Ted Baker. The prize includes round-trip airfare, three nights in a boutique hotel, luxury car transfers, a £500/$806shopping spree and a £500/$806 spending money. You’ll tour the sights with Quintessentially Travel.    

The BritRail Winter Offer is on. Save 20% on your train pass when you travel from Nov. 1-Feb. 28. The BritRail London Plus Pass, for instance, is now $125; it zsooms around London and offers an all-access pass to the whole of Southeast England. The BritRail England Flexi Pass is now $185, for flexible train [...]