Dublin
Dublin City in Ireland Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Dublin: Booking.com Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland, is on Ireland’s east coast at the mouth of the River Liffey. Its historic buildings include Dublin Castle, dating to the 13th century, and imposing St Patrick’s Cathedral, founded in 1191. City parks include landscaped […]
Belfast
Belfast City in Northern Ireland Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Belfast: Booking.com Belfast is Northern Ireland’s capital. It was the birthplace of the RMS Titanic, which famously struck an iceberg and sunk in 1912. This legacy is recalled in the renovated dockyards’ Titanic Quarter, which includes the Titanic Belfast, an aluminium-clad museum reminiscent […]
Glasgow
Glasgow City in Scotland Glasgow is a port city on the River Clyde in Scotland’s western Lowlands. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Glasgow: Booking.com It is famed for its Victorian and art nouveau architecture, a rich legacy of the city’s 18th–20th-century prosperity due to trade, especially in tobacco, and shipbuilding. Today it’s a […]
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Capital of Scotland Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Edinburgh: Booking.com Edinburgh is Scotland’s compact capital. It has a medieval Old Town which includes the Royal Mile perched on a crag overlooking the elegant Georgian New Town with its gardens and neoclassical buildings. Looming over all the city is Edinburgh Castle, home to Scotland’s […]
Brighton
Brighton Town in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Brighton: Booking.com Brighton is an English seaside resort town. About an hour south of London by train, it’s a popular day-trip destination. Its broad shingle beach is backed by amusement arcades and Regency-era buildings. Brighton Pier, in the central waterfront section, opened in 1899 […]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newcastle-upon-Tyne City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Booking.com Newcastle upon Tyne is a university city on the River Tyne in northeast England. With its twin city, Gateshead, it was a major shipbuilding and manufacturing hub during the Industrial Revolution and is now a centre of business, arts and sciences. Spanning […]
Cambridge
Cambridge City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Cambridge: Booking.com Cambridge is a city on the River Cam in eastern England, home to the prestigious University of Cambridge, dating to 1209. University colleges include King’s, famed for its choir and towering Gothic chapel, as well as Trinity, founded by Henry VIII, and […]
Manchester
Liverpool City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Manchester: Booking.com Manchester is a major city in the northwest of England with a rich industrial heritage. The Castlefield conservation area’s 18th-century canal system recalls the city’s days as a textile powerhouse, and visitors can trace this history at the interactive Museum of Science […]
Liverpool
Liverpool City in England Liverpool is a maritime city in northwest England, where the River Mersey meets the Irish Sea. A key trade and migration port from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, it is also, famously, the hometown of The Beatles. Ferries cruise the waterfront, where the iconic mercantile buildings known as the […]
Bristol
Bristol City in England Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Bristol: Booking.com Bristol is a city straddling the River Avon in the southwest of England with a prosperous maritime history. Its former city-centre port is now a cultural hub, the Harbourside, where the M Shed museum explores local social and industrial heritage. The harbour’s […]
Bath
Bath Town in England Bath is a town set in the rolling countryside of southwest England, known for its natural hot springs and 18th-century Georgian architecture. Find Somewhere to Stay in or near Bath: Booking.com Honey-coloured Bath stone has been used extensively in the town’s architecture, including at Bath Abbey, noted for its fan-vaulting, tower […]
Wales: Cardiff
Cardiff Capital of Wales Cardiff Castle Cardiff Castle dates from the end of the 11th century and is still standing in a habitable state today on the edge of the city centre. This is largely due to the Marquis of Bute who, at the height of Cardiff’s prosperity in the 1860s, was not only responsible […]