City Breaks

An Inspector Calls: Located on the doorstep of Buckingham Palace, The Nadler Victoria is leading the way for London budget hotelsThe 73-room Nadler…

Abigail Gullo, the New Yorker who runs the bar at the much-hyped new restaurant Compere Lapin, has a theory about her adoptive city: ‘They say you have to be…

This is no health farm. Piedmont - underneath the Alps, in the top left-hand corner of Italy - introduced the world to Nutella and Martini.It’s also where…

Taking the plunge: The Copenhagen spa hotel where a dip into the freezing Baltic is a fabulous shock to the systemKurhotel Skodsborg is a stylish spa…

The Mediterranean city of Valencia has an astounding cathedral, brilliant beaches, renaissance churches, some of the most striking modern architecture in Europe,…

My heart sinks when offered ‘unsurpassed service’. And nothing makes me more wary, and weary, than a glossy brochure pledging that ‘expectations will be exceeded every…

The Crafty Traveller: How to bag a swanky city break...for a down to earth price By Fred Mawer Published: 10:58, 18 November 2012 | Updated: 12:39, 18 November…

Checking In: Crime novelist Ruth Rendell on her love of Venice, wet days in Margate and why she never wants to dine with film stars Great crime writer has…

The Crafty Traveller: No-frills hotels - budget brilliance or more than you bargained for? By Fred Mawer Updated: 10:55, 6 September 2010 Heard about the hotel…

Christmas is over, and we have officially hit mid-winter.The perfect time, perhaps, to look to the future and start planning your next getaway.Travel Mail has compiled…