Autumn Bargains and Afternoon Tea
British Airways cut UK/Europe seat prices
On 12 October British Airways announced far reaching
budget travel offers on their UK and European routes. Flights from London/Heathrow and London/Gatwick are now offered for as little as £69 inclusive of all ancillaries plus a free seat for a child travelling with an adult. UK destinations offered
for a child travelling with an adult. UK destinations offered are: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guernsey, Jersey, Manchester and Newcastle. A wide range of European destinations offered includes Barcelona, Berlin, Madrid, Paris and Stockholm.
Autumn Break Hotel Bargains
A variety of interesting rural and city Autumn break bargains are advertised by Heritage Hotels, and Macdonald Hotels. £50 per head for Dinner, bed and breakfast at quality hotels with sometimes a free bottle of wine are offered at resorts like Ascot, Bath, Canterbury, Dartmouth, Marlow, Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon, Winchester and Windsor. I have listed relevant websites under my Travel Tips.
London Hotel Bargains
London visitors can expect bargain offers from hotels desperate for their custom. Some top hotels and hotel chains normally offer up to 30% discounts during this off-peak season leading up to the winter holiday and New Year. This year they are slashing prices by up to 70%. A trawl through the webpages of www.laterooms.com or www.lastminute.com will net you a variety of such bargains at the cream of London's prestige 4 and 5 star hotels between now and mid December and from January onwards.
The Savoy Group of 5 star London hotels, which includes Claridges and The Connaught in Mayfair, and The Savoy in the Strand overlooking the Thames, have a series of sybaritic special package offers and Autumn bargains. These can begin with a car to collect, (and deliver) you at London/Heathrow Airport, continue with a bottle of Champagne on ice in your hotel suite and end with a candlelit dinner for two and best seats at the theatre of your choice.
Claridge's, which lies in the heart of Mayfair and will see its 200th anniversary in 2012, has been entertaining royalty since King George IV, then Prince of Wales, installed a gentleman to keep discreet house there. His ability to accommodate foreign royalty and nobility in a style befitting their rank while maintaining the ambience and discretion of a well maintained private house ensured that the establishment flourished. By 1827 it was the fashionable rendezvous for the high Corps Diplomatique and in 1860 it received Queen
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