Long weekend destinations?

Mark M

Mark M

Mark M

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I know its mainly personal preference but Im after some ideas for a long weekend? Ive been looking at New York as we loved it the previous time weve been but do like to try new places out.

Any places worth checking out? Looking to do the usually stuff, eat, drink and possibly some shopping but not essential.
 
Paris is usually our "go to" place. Prefer this over New York, Barcelona, London, etc - all of which we've been to as well.
 
Ive been to Paris when I was in sixth form and dont have any desire to go back although not sure why. The whole "most romantic city in the world" crap just seems to put me off for some reason.
 
We are going to Dusseldorf in a couple of weeks just because there are cheap flights out of the local airport. I don't think there is all that much there to do but there seems to be some really nice cafe bars and restaurants and we are staying in the old town. I'll let you know what it was like!

Been to Edinburgh lately?
 
Long weekend to NY? Personally if I'm going all that way I'd want to make more if it than a weekend. Plus based on your location flying from local airports is much nicer for a short break... unless Durham Tees Valley airport has started direct flights to JFK :p.

Anywhere in Scandinavia would be high on my list of recommendations. Copenhagen and Stockholm are fantastic city breaks.
 
Paris is a complete dive. Honestly, a long weekend (luxury) in London is better. Of course, as you've seen, this is all subjective.
Dublin
Amsterdam
Prague
Slovenia
Croatia
Cinque Terre

All viable, perfectly acceptable places, all with different things to offer, especially as it does't sound like you're too bothered about the touristy stuff....
 
Anywhere in Northern Europe

Kiev is still very very cheap, quite a fair bit to do, the people are OK the younger generation are really nice, the older generation might as well be Scottish and just really grumpy and depressed and much preffered it when you could get only one flavour of ice cream.

Vilnius is nice, plenty to do, but it normal prices.

You could try Tallinn and a day trip to Helsinki and do two countries, which is what i would recommend and really good fun :)

France/Spain/Italy/Spain is just a rip off imo.
 
@Russinating Copenhagen was OK from my perspective as I went at the end of January. It was absolutely freezing (even thought I had packed thermals), foggy (no blue sky) and short days (so it colder very quickly). On cold wet days the order of the day is usually eating and drinking and that is SERIOUSLY expensive - two coffees and two paninis cost me £40. Beer in the nice bars seemed to be £8-10 for 2/3 of a pint. The only thing that was really cheap was Dominos Pizza (which is cheaper than in the UK). I'd suggest it was twice as expensive as London prices... and I don't think weekend trips are very fun if you have to be conscious of where and when you eat and drink.

If you are going there, make it a summer trip, I think.
 
Few places the wife & I have done over the past couple of years.
Lincoln
York
Bath
Derby
Cardiff
Liverpool
Manchester
London


Little further affield
Rome (5 nights)
Madrid

Rome was my favourite without a doubt but all of them offer plenty to do. We ran out of time at all of them.
 
Nitefly said:
@Russinating Copenhagen was OK from my perspective as I went at the end of January. It was absolutely freezing (even thought I had packed thermals), foggy (no blue sky) and short days (so it colder very quickly). On cold wet days the order of the day is usually eating and drinking and that is SERIOUSLY expensive - two coffees and two paninis cost me £40. Beer in the nice bars seemed to be £8-10 for 2/3 of a pint. The only thing that was really cheap was Dominos Pizza (which is cheaper than in the UK). I'd suggest it was twice as expensive as London prices... and I don't think weekend trips are very fun if you have to be conscious of where and when you eat and drink.

If you are going there, make it a summer trip, I think.
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I went in January this year as well. It didn't rain much to be fair but otherwise we still loved it. Yes you have to factor in the expense but otherwise we'd rather do a winter trip to somewhere normally cold rather than waste a summer trip on somewhere with equal/worse weather to the UK.
 
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