Britain on the Cheap

Last call for a summer break of £49/$81 per person per night at more than 40 Macdonald Hotels & Resorts across the UK. You’ll also receive a £15/$24 voucher to spend on a meal, a round of golf, or spa treatment, from Sunday to Thursday. If you book for three nights, the rate drops to [...]

Love Britain the magazine? Now you can save half on the yearly subscription for North American readers: $19.95 for six issues in the U.S.; $26.95 for six issues in Canada. Britain is published bimonthly by The Chelsea Magazine Co.      

Now through Aug. 15, you can save 10% on a Great British Heritage Pass, which is available only to international travelers.  The Pass saves a lot of time and money on admissions to nearly 500 of the UK’s most popular castles, stately homes and palaces.

I love the Scottish Highlands, a far-north wild, windy swath of Britain. Now you can enter to win a trip to the land of heather on Glenmorangie Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky‘s Facebook page.        

Macdonald Hotels are welcoming summer with rates starting at £49/$80 per person at 40 hotels in Scotland, the Midlands, Lake District and South England. If you book midweek, you’ll also receive a £15/$24 voucher to spend at your hotel’s restaurant, spa or golf course.    

Torridon Hotel in the Highlands, recently named Scottish Hotel of the Year 2011, is offering complimentary outdoor activities for guests throughout June. The activities instructor will lead half-day sessions in rock climbing, archery, loch kayaking, gorge scrambling and guided walks, normally costing from £25-£60/$41-$98 per activity. Children over 10 are welcome. Double rooms with breakfast [...]

Sta Travel is offering students and travelers under 26 cheap flights to England and Scotland on a number of airlines, including British Airways, American Airlines, United and Continental.    

Marcliffe Hotel and Spa is offering a vacation package that visits three of Scotland’s world-renowned courses. The “Swinging Deal” features one round of golf each at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club; Murcar Links Golf Club, named “Course of the Year” by Golf Tourism Scotland in 2007; and Cruden Bay Golf Club, an old-fashioned course recently ranked [...]

The recently refurbished Best Western Eglinton Arms Hotel, a short drive from the city of Glasgow, is offering a special rate of £41/$68 per room. The 19th-century coaching inn is surrounded by greenery and the village stream, on the south side of Glasgow.

Britain On Track is back with its annual BritRail Pass Free Rail Day for Americans and Canadians traveling in Britain. Buy a BritRail pass before April 29 and you’ll receive an extra day of travel for free. The promotion is good on Britain On Track’s most popular BritRail passes, including the BritRail FlexiPass, BritRail Consecutive [...]