Britain on the Cheap

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 Scottish Snowdrop Festival is popping up at more than 50 gardens across Scotland’s mainland now through March 18. You can marvel at more than 300 types of these dainty flowers, including a footpath sprinkled with snowdrops by a waterfall which inspired Robert Burns in Perthshire. There will be carpets of snowdrops at Culzean Castle [...]

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 [...]

The vino’s on Madconald Hotels & Resorts when you book an autumn break, from £45/$76 per person. Choose from hotels around the UK, and book now to Nov 28; stay from now to Dec 2. When you dine in the hotel restaurant, you’ll receive a free bottle of wine. Children 12 and younger stay and [...]

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 [...]

British Airways is offering winter discounts, $150 off premium economy/World Traveller Plus round-trip tickets from any U.S. or Canadian gateway to the UK, now through March 31. In economy, the deal is $75 off a round-trip ticket.  

Hoping to escape the winter doldrums? Sun & Snow Travel Show, Oct. 15 at the QEII Centre in Westminster, is London’s only free winter travel show. Just register for free admission. Some deals are up to 50% off. Wild In Scotland is offering a 50% discount on selected tours to the Highlands and Islands of [...]

Best Western Balgeddie House Hotel in Glenrothes, central Fife, has a special offer of £45/$76pp per night. The hotel, with an indoor pool and sauna, is near the coastal path and Falkland Palace.

The Great British Heritage Pass offers entrée into 480 properties around the UK, and now you can download a free iPhone app–to use with or without the pass. Check the castles, stately homes and historic sites out on a map, search by castle or garden or try sample itineraries around the UK.