England, United Kingdom

Destinations in England

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  Bath

  • 5 hotels
  Bath provides the perfect English getaway. This is a genteel city soaked in history, which has kept its stiff upper lip but learned how to relax with a cocktail, too.
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  Berkshire

  • 5 hotels
  • 1 villa
  For fine eateries, picturesque countryside and fascinating heritage, the Royal County of Berkshire is hard to beat.
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  Brighton

  • 2 hotels
  Forget kiss-me-quick hats and candyfloss on Palace Pier – with its pretty, terraced squares, Brighton gives Bath a run for its Regency money.
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  Bristol

  • 2 hotels
  Bristol is a great metropolis without the stress. There are friendly bars, amazing restaurants, and a cleaned-up harbourside with art galleries and many a bar-with-a-view.
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  Buckinghamshire

  • 3 hotels
  With woodlands fit for a fairytale and country hideaways down almost every lane, Buckinghamshire’s an accessible escape from city life.
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  Chester

  • 1 hotel
  Chester, a former Roman fort beside the wending River Dee, has a historic racecourse, plentiful shops and cafés and a crumbling cluster of antique monuments; both a living time capsule and the buzzy beating heart of Cheshire.
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  Cornwall

  • 11 hotels
  • 2 villas
  With its soft sand beaches, hot summer sun and spectacularly noisy waves, Cornwall is the stuff of perfect childhood holidays.
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  Cotswolds

  • 17 hotels
  • 8 villas
  The quintessentially English Cotswolds is the United Kingdom’s centre of bucolic bliss: luxury villas and boutique hotels abound in chocolate-box villages and evergreen countryside. It’s enough to send Anglophile tourists into apoplexy.
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  County Durham

  • 2 hotels
  For rolling hills dotted with architectural gems head to County Durham: a northern idyll brimming with classic English charm. Wild forest rambles, historic cityscapes and sweeping, pebble-spotted coasts make this corner of Britain a true all-rounder.
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  Derbyshire

  • 1 hotel
  A classic example of the English countryside’s more rough-and-ready climes, Derbyshire is home to the craggy mountains of the Peak District, the serpentine River Derwent and acres of rolling farmland.
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  Devon

  • 7 hotels
  Devon is the stuff of childhood dreams. Sun-kissed beaches and quiet little coves hark back to a time when all you needed for a day of unbridled pleasure was a bucket and spade, acres of sand and the promise of an ice-cream before bed.
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  Dorset

  • 4 hotels
  Dorset is a tale of two landscapes: the chalky downlands of Cranborne Chase and the Purbeck Hills, with their pretty villages and grand houses; and the wild, adventure-friendly Jurassic Coast, rebranded but untamed.
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  East Sussex

  • 2 hotels
  The East Sussex coast has always attracted crowds; in the height of summer, you may have to fight your way onto the beaches, just as the Romans and Normans once did.
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  Gloucestershire

  • 7 hotels
  Gloucestershire, with its picture-postcard English towns and countryside, is perfect for a romantic weekend.
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  Hampshire

  • 5 hotels
  A hop from London, Hampshire has long been the go-to county for urbanite weekenders in need of a rural retreat.
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  Isle of Wight

  • 1 hotel
  Once very rural in character, the Isle of Wight went through something of a renaissance during the 19th century, making for a place that is full of juicy cultural tidbits.
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  Lake District

  • 2 hotels
  Cumbria’s dramatic, brooding landscape has inspired creative souls for centuries: poet William Wordsworth penned many of his most famous works in the Lake District, and it’s where Beatrix Potter settled with her beloved flock of Herdwick sheep.
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  Liverpool

  • 1 hotel
  This stately old lady on the banks of the Mersey may have celebrated her 800th birthday, but she’s enjoying an invigorating shake-up these days…
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  London

  • 42 hotels
  England's capital has got it all. And she flaunts it.
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  Manchester

  • 3 hotels
  Mancunians may be too down-to-earth to say it themselves, but the capital of the northwest has come over all Manhattanchester.
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  Norfolk

  • 3 hotels
  The famous Broads, the wild and wonder-filled beaches, the huge skies: Norfolk is a remote and inspiring corner of England, just a couple of hours from London.
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  North Yorkshire

  • 4 hotels
  Where wild moors and rolling dales form the backdrop to solid, greystone market towns and idyllic country villages, North Yorkshire is the UK's ultimate antidote to urban life.
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  Northumberland

  • 1 hotel
  For film-set-worthy views, historic architectural gems and bucolic English charm, Northumberland is a one-stop-farm-shop for a country break. Explore ancient castles and sweeping coasts, and bring your walking boots for hikes in the majestic Pennines.
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  Oxfordshire

  • 2 hotels
  Tradition and new ideas combine in Oxfordshire to create the best of all worlds.
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  Peak District

  • 2 hotels
  The sheer size and scale of the Peak District makes for much of its mystery. Stretched across northern Derbyshire and rolling into a handful of other counties, it comprises 555 square miles of moors and uplands, dramatic views and drystone walls, plus pubs and tearooms aplenty.
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  Somerset

  • 5 hotels
  A delicious combination of chocolate-box villages, undulating hills and elegant cities (Bath and Wells), Somerset is the sort of place where honey-laden bees buzz lazily through orchards, perhaps pausing on a fallen apple.
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  Suffolk

  • 1 hotel
  Flat as a pint of Adnams left in the sun, evocative East Anglia has more in common, topographically at least, with just-across-the-North-Sea Netherlands than the hilly counties to the west.
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  West Sussex

  • 1 hotel
  With the cathedral city of Chichester providing its meanest seaside streets, West Sussex is a green and pleasant county, where seasons and hills roll gently, all against the ever-shifting backdrop of the sea.
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  Wiltshire

  • 3 hotels
  Nothing falls flat in this gorgeous setting of sweeping hills and verdant vales, where folklore, myth and mystery lurk around every curve of the road.
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  Worcestershire

  • 3 hotels
  Sitting comfortably between the Cotswolds, Warwickshire and the Welsh Marches, Worcestershire is a preserved pocket of tumbling hills, riverside towns and a grand old cathedral city.