Britain on the Cheap

Throughout December, SACO serviced apartment company has discounts up to 50% off. Bath has one-bedroom apartments at £105/$168 per night, saving £35/$59. Two-bedroom apartments are £175/$277 per night, saving £63/$103. Birmingham has one-bedroom apartments at £79/$127 per night, saving £87/$143. Two-bedroom apartments are £99/$157 per night, saving £95/$165. Cardiff has one-bedroom apartments at £79/$127 per [...]

Eager to shop the Christmas markets? Octopus Travel is offering a package to the Frankfurt Christmas Market in Birmingham, with 10% off a room at Jury’s Inn, Birmingham, from £60/$95 per night. Book by Oct. 20. The Christmas market includes hand-crafted local pieces as well as ethnic goods imported from all over the world.

SACO serviced apartment company is offering savings up to £66/$103 per night for October half-term in Manchester, plus free tickets to Dr Who Live. From Oct. 23-31, a studio apartment, sleeping two, costs from £75/$119 per night, saving £55/$87; a two-bedroom apartment, sleeping four, costs £145/$227 per night, saving £66/$103. If you book by Oct. [...]

Can’t wait for “Sex and the City 2” to unfurl on the big screen? SACO apartments is offering groups of four a girls’ weekend away in Birmingham for $372/£250, $93/£62.50 per person. The package includes one night in a two-bedroom apartment in the city, sleeping four, tickets for all four to see the new movie [...]

Thousands of golf trips are up for grabs at the NEC Golf Show Nov. 27-29 at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre. Your Golf Travel.com will give a break away to every visitor holing the 100-foot putt, and one lucky player will win a trip for four to Turnberry. Also, each show visitor will receive a £25 [...]

Birmingham, England’s second-largest city with a million people, has long been a shopping draw. There’s posh shopping at Debenhams, Selfridges and the only Harvey Nichols outside London, but it’s more fun and affordable to mix it up at the little stalls hugging the Bull Ring in the city center. Named for medieval butcheries, the Bull [...]