Britain on the Cheap

Focus Hotels is tired of winter and ready for warm weather with a Focus on Spring: rooms from £25/$41 per person per night, including full English breakfast and VAT at 11 hotels, now through May 31. The all-inclusive package, with three meals and free house wine by the glass, starts at £79/$$127 per person per [...]

Focus Hotels has launched family value inclusive packages at each of its 10 hotels across the UK. The deal is £160/$233 for two adults and two children for two nights, including full English breakfast each morning, a light lunch or packed lunch to take on days out, and a three-course dinner in the evenings. Adults [...]

Focus Hotels has planned special lunches and getaway room rates around the country for Mother’s Day, March 14. A two-course lunch at The Oak Hotel, Wigan, starts at $17/£10.95 per adult; double rooms from $85/£55 based on two sharing. The Hatherton Country House Hotel, Stafford, has a three-course lunch for $20/ £12.95 per person, and [...]

Madeley Court Hotel in Shropshire, a 16th-century manor house, is now under Focus Hotel Management, with a million-pound refurbishment for plasma televisions, Swedish rain showers and free Wi-Fi throughout. The hotel, near The Ironbridge Gorge, Powys Castle and RAF Cosford Air Museum, has a “Stay, Eat and Drink” package for $130/£79.95 per couple or $96/£59.95 [...]