Great British breaks

Planning a staycation? Let our handy guide to all things fabulous about Britain point you in the right direction, whether you're travelling north, south, east or west.

Britain's best budget and mid-range accommodation

Stay in a great-value hotel, B&B, Inn or even an Elizabethan manor

Planning a staycation? We've selected the best budget and mid-range beds around Britain offering the perfect place to get some shut eye before exploring some of the country's most idyllic and interesting locations from Ben Nevis to the Yorkshire Dales to the Purbeck Coast.

Britain's best budget and mid-range accommodation

Britain's quirkiest hotels and holiday lets

Bed down in a windmill, castle, train station or even a pineapple

Fancy staying somewhere a bit different? As you’d expect, Britain has plenty of extra special, even eccentric, hotels and holiday lets to get your head down in. We’ve chosen ten of the best, which are remote, romantic, historic, and a  little bit bonkers.

Britain's quirkiest hotels and holiday lets

Britian's rural idylls

Rediscover Brtain's rolling hills, wild green morrs and picture-postcard villages

In our rush to escape to sunnier climes abroad, it's all too easy to forget that we have acre upon acre of beautiful countryside to frolick about in, right here on our very own doorstep. So, let us remind you...

Britian's rural idylls

Cosy winter retreats

Spa treats, home-cooked organic meals and snug sitting room fires

Don't shy away from Britain's tempestuous winter climate – find the perfect weekend break retreat, sit back, relax and watch the weather go wild.

UK breaks: cosy retreats

10 great walks in Britain

Get your walking boots on, Britain's fells, moors and mountains await you

If trekking up the Lion and the Lamb in Cumbria, or making your way to the Lizard Point in Cornwall sounds like fun to you, then read on. Britain has plenty such breathtakingly beautiful spots to explore on foot.

10 great walks in Britain

10 great British beaches

Discover golden dunes, miles of coastal walks and quality fish and chips

Check out Britain's beautiful coastline, then check into a romantic windmill or even a converted pigsty.

10 great British beaches

10 great spa holidays in Britain

Take a stress-free spa holiday and relax with a good pampering session

Welcome to the world of outdoor pools, steam rooms, saunas, and aromatherapy, collagen and oxygen treatments.

10 great spa holidays in Britain

10 great outdoor activities for kids

Get exhilarated, exhausted and extremely muddy in the UK

These day kids can choose from any number of screen-based entertainment to while away the school holidays, so we've compiled ten great ways for parents to enthuse their offspring to switch off and get some fresh air.

10 great outdoor activities for kids

Outdoor adventure in the UK

Ever tried river-bugging, flying a WW2 plane or wreck diving?

Bored with the adventure in your life being limited to throwing a frisbee in your local park at the weekend? Then get inspired by our choice of Britain's most thrilling and unusual outdoor pursuits by air, land and sea.

Outdoor adventure in the UK

Alternative camping in Britain

Everything from wild camping to Romany caravans to beach huts

Bored with the canvas suburbia of organised campsites? Then forget the rows of neatly marshalled tents, chemical toilets and trappings of civilisation and try one of these unusual ways to sleep over in the great British outdoors.

Alternative camping in Britain

Campervanning in Britain

New van, old country – campervanning along Dorset's Jurassic Coast

Camper vanners in Britain tend to fall in to two categories. The first are the vintage-loving VW surfer dude-types, who spend their summers puttering up and down Devon's choked A-roads, boards and cute dogs/kids strapped in the back, waving at similarly smug aficionados of slow-moving but lovely-to-look-at mobile motor homes.

Campervanning in Britain

Weird and wonderful things to do in Britain

Do something different! Try letterboxing, star gazing or panning for gold

Britain certainly isn't short of unusual or eccentric pursuits, but finding out about them can be tricky. Here, we've picked ten of our favourite weird and wonderful things to do across Britain.

Weird and wonderful things to do in Britain

Time Out Britain guidebooks

Time Out produces an indispensable range of guidebooks to help you get the best out of Britain.

Discover more great things to do with Time Out's '1000 things to do in Britain' book, available from www.timeout.com/shop at the discounted price of £8.44.

Discover 100 British coastal gems with Time Out's 'Seaside' book, available from www.timeout.com/shop at the discounted price of £11.04.

Discover 100s of places to stay in Britain with Time Out's 'Britain - Perfect places to stay, eat & explore' book, available from our shop www.timeout.com/shop at the discounted price of £11.80.

See all of Time Out's Britain guidebook range in our shop www.timeout.com/shop