Recommendations for perfect weekend break, euro city or uk, romantic small hotel, good food essential...

[CountessDracula]

dh and I want to go somewhere really lovely for a weekend for our wedding anniversary this year (end sept). We have rather neglected our anniversary for a few years since dd has been around, we have had a bit of a tough time recently which we have come through and have really sorted out and we are madly in lurve . We would really love to go somewhere relaxing and beautiful and stay somewhere small and intimate and fab. Nothing too designery really, maybe with nice antiques and big snuggly bed and a balcony with a view...

All suggestions welcomed...

cipriani looks too big and flash

here is lovely one star hotel. I bet it's available.

what do you think middle class means? Would the owners be wearing Boden and braying a lot

thanks for that Eleusis

It is where East meets West in the big bad oil business. Lots of SUvs. Just your kind of place.

dh has been to kazakhstan

Iceland?

St Davids Hotel Cardiff (am getting bored now..)

im bored too

bundle - but not for a romantic weeknd I'm guessing?

God you're difficult to please!
Is this too designer?

kewcumber

he drank mare's milk, laced with hootch

how about cape town - long way but can fly over night there and back - I've done a three day business trip and no jetlag.

friends have just got back from Reykjavik but not sure the city itself has what you are looking for

the Mandarin Oriental in Munich is nice but you have to work your way round German food

Hotel Holt, coolest hotel in Reykjavik

We have had great weekends in:
Stockholm
Antwerp
Siena
Alexandria
Belgrade

The old city in Stockholm is very romantic but not corny. Loads of restaurants & bars. Fantastic museums & galleries too.

plenty of good restaurants there apparently

I think Istanbul is your place.

You mentioned Prague earlier. Prague is nice, but it will be mobbed in Sept. We went two years ago in mid march and there were plenty of people. God only knows what it is like in Sept. I expect worse.

Time Out guide

the Front hotel in Copenhagen looks nice, but probably a bit too modern for you

So, let's measure Iceland against your criteria:

NO SPAIN Tick
NO COUNTRY HOTELS tick
NO MODERN HOTELS pos tick
NOTHING TOO DESIGNERY ok
NO S OF FRANCE WE GO THERE A LOT tick
NO AMSTERDAM, NAPLES, NY, BOSTON (NO USA IN FACT), NO MOROCCO tick

MUST HAVE BALCONY WITH VIEW surelt must be one
MUST HAVE VIBE supposed to
MUST HAVE FAB AND BIG BEDROOMS must be one
MUST BE IN A CITY OR TOWN WITH GOOD FOOD apparently
MUST HAVE GOOD FOOD apparently

room with a view

I am procrastinating, can you tell?

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just thought i'd ask... have you found anywhere suitable yet?

We've about exhausted all the option on Earth.