UK city break

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Give me your best recommendations for a weekend city break for a middle aged couple. We’ve done and loved York, Edinburgh and Bath.

And having been to Manchester many times, I find it so boring!

Oxford is lovely for a weekend. Pretty buildings, a few free museums and the colleges to have a peep into.

We have had nice weekends in Shrewsbury and Hay on Wye. Both mainly walking though.

Liverpool

Love Oxford and Bristol.

I would also throw in Margate and Broadstairs for a little bit of coastal loveliness.

Leeds. Beautiful old arcades. Fabulous market. The old corn exchange building.

Not Stevenage.

We love Edinburgh and Bath too! We also really loved Bristol and Canterbury. Llandudno is lovely too

Forgot to say, as others have said, Chester is also lovely. Very oldy worldy and lovely shops and restaurants.

I went to Cardiff last weekend, it's very nice of you want shops, bars and restaurants. My favourite cities are York or Edinburgh.

Oxford
Bristol.

Not Leeds! The arcades and the corn market and the Metropole are the sum total of interesting architecture pretty much.

Edinburgh, yes.
Or somewhere like Cheltenham?

Edinburgh has never contributed to music, culture or acting? Really?

Belfast

Thanks for some great ideas. Definitely thinking Chester or Cambridge in the first instance but lots of others to look at as well!

been to and enjoyed for 2-4 nights breaks

edinburgh (not during the festival unless it’s why you want to visit)
york
newcaatle
Durham
london

been to but and enjoyed visiting but didn’t stay for the whole trip so I’m putting them in a separate section
perth
dundee
stirling

this summer though we stayed In Harrogate instead of York. It was half the price for hotels and it had a much more open less busy vibe than York and is much smaller so it was nice to have a wander but it made a great base to visit other places (which was more complicated than when we stayed in York)we had a day trip to York but we also we had a lovely day in knaresbourough which I’d highly recommend. Both were less than half an hour by bus or train from Harrogate.

there will be others but Iv had half a bottle of red so can’t be arsed to try to remember more sorry 😳

Oxford - Liverpool - London

Chester (great but can be rather lively at night, avoid race days)
Oxford
Cambridge
Lichfield (small but old town feel)
Newcastle is fine but I am from there, and it is a big city, but sometimes has a little city-feel. Durham is OK but very studenty this time of year, as are many places, inc Leeds.
Liverpool (same issue to a degree)
Harrogate is OK-ish, better for the surrounding areas
I am not with Manchester, I am sure it has it's charms? I am struggling to see them. Every time I go I like it less and less. Sorry, wish I could report better and I have given it a few tries.

Stirling
Dundee

If you go to Cambridge I really recommend Hotel Du Vin, on Trumpington Road, its so near the gorgeous Fitzwilliam Museum and it does good breakfast.

I don't think I've ever seen Cov suggested as a citybreak location on MM before! What would you do for a whole weekend...? A mooch around the Cathedral and maybe the Herbert museum, a visit to Fargo Village and a bite to eat, but then what? Everything else I'd do in the area is definitely outside of the city itself!

It's definitely not somewhere I'd go as a base for a weekend break (I've lived in CV postcodes for nearly 30 years).

As a PP said avoid race days in Chester but I think they are all finished now. Great atmosphere but so so busy!

At night I prefer the upper Northgate Street area as it's away from the main pub/clubs. Great theatre and new Picturehouse.

Have stayed in the Leonardo a couple of times, it's new and quite cheap.

Is Chester relatively dog friendly?

Warwick, Stratford, Kenilworth & Leamington Spa

they are all together, 2 castles, one birthplace and a spa town

Stratford-upon-Avon
Had a weekend away there recently, and it was great.

Glasgow!

Yes. The new food market allows dogs as do several eating places. Great walks through the park and down the river too