Britain on the Cheap

The Dartmouth Golf and Country Club in south Devon has unlimited  golf packages available for summer from £85/$130 per person, including accommodation. The package is for one night’s B&B with two days’ unlimited golf, based on a group of six. The club has an 18-hole Championship Course and its nine-hole sister-layout, The Dartmouth.

World Cup action—all 64 matches across the 31 days of the event—will be on only two big screens in the UK, Manchester’s Hyundai Fan Park at Castlefield and Bristol’s Queen’s Square Fan Park. Wristbands are free for all matches except the England matches: England tickets are limited to four per household; the transaction fee is [...]

Love it or loathe it, World Cup mania is on. The Feversham Arms & Verbena Spa, AA Hotel of the Year, England 2009/2010, has Football Fever and Football Fatigue packages good from June 11-July 11 at the North Yorkshire country hotel. Football Fever starts at $166/£115 pp per night, including a World Cup cocktail, a [...]

Looking for a free tee time? Merlin apartments has three holiday homes overlooking the Merlin Golf Club near the family beach at Mawgan Porth in Cornwall. Save 20% when one or two people stay at a cottage — plus free golf. The week beginning May 14, for example, is now $534/£328, down from $668/£410 at [...]

Visit County Durham has already planned out its Eastertide with Outdoor and Active Week April 5-11, part of National Outdoor Adventure Week. Up to 17 outdoor and adventure activities are free or low-cost, such as guided mountain biking, orienteering, guided walks and hiking, landscape photography and high ropes activity courses. Many self-catering cottages, guesthouses, hotels [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Skate with your sweetie during the Valentine’s Day Skate at Lee Valley Ice Centre, Leyton, London. Two romantically themed sessions are planned at 2 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Feb. 14.

Twickenham Stadium outside London, the home of English Rugby, will celebrate its 100th anniversary in February. Book a stadium tour and check out the World Rugby Museum—guides even take you into the hallowed England dressing room.

The Great North Run and Great North City Games will be staged Sept. 19 and 20 on NewcastleGateshead Quayside and shown on TV. The new line-up will be 100m and 200m races, 100m and 200m hurdles, pole vault, long jump, high jump, one mile and two miles in the City Games. The Athletic Ashes will [...]