London Area Garden Breaks
Gardenbreaks.com offer the following short breaks in London and South East England. We define a garden break as ‘1-3 nights in a comfortable hotel with easy access to beautiful and interesting gardens’. You will enjoy luxury and ease in beautiful surroundings: Gardenbreaks are ideal for celebration, relaxation and romance
London is the world capital of gardening. It has more garden-mad residents per square meter than any other world city. It stands to garden design as Paris does to fashion, Milan to furniture, New York to banking and Frankfurt to sausages. A Danish writer, in a famous book on London the unique city attributed the city’s uniqueness to its devotion to gardens. But most London’s gardens are private and finding what to see requires detailed information. Gardenbreaks.com therefore publishes guides and recommends hotels and itineraries.
Booking arrangements
Booking through Gardenbreaks.com gives us a commission and you (1) the lowest price we know of (2)a free copy of our eBook Garden Travel Guide, which is a worldwide overview of where the best gardens are to be found and the best times of year for visiting them. Visits to gardens can be self-drive/self-guided or we can supply expert tour guides and transport. The choice is yours.
Should you wish to know more about how the gardens you see fit into the wider history of gardens, we recommend two publications by our editor (Tom Turner): the Garden History Reference Encyclopaedia CD and his book on Garden History (Spons, 2005). The CD contains source material on gardens, equivalent in length to the Bible. The book contains a compact summary of European garden history over 4000 years, illustrated by style diagrams.
RIVERSIDE GARDENBREAKS IN LONDON
GARDENBREAKS NEAR LONDON
London is classed (with New York) as one of the world’s two Alpha++ Global Cities – but one of its great pleasures is a country escape. Britain’s railway system was planned as a star, radiating from London. This makes it easy to get out and easy to get back. The journey times from London for our recommended Gardenbreaks range from 30 to 90 minutes. You can do day trips from Central London or, much better, you can spend one or two nights in beautiful country garden hotel.