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Across the North

Luxury Valentine's lunch and afternoon tea for two in the North

Valentine's Day 2027, 14 February, falls on a Sunday, which is good news for a lunch or afternoon tea: the six places here, from a Windermere lake house to a Michelin-starred Sunday lunch in the Ribble Valley, all publish regular Sunday service. They are chosen for exactly that, because plenty of the North's best restaurants and tea rooms are shut on a Sunday.

Across the North

Luxury Valentine's spa days for two in the North

Five spa days built for two rather than one, from a Wensleydale riverside spa you hire for yourselves to a private treatment room overlooking Windermere with its own copper salt bath. Each is a standing offer you can book now, and Carden Park has already published a Valentine's evening for 11 to 15 February 2027.

Across the North

Luxury Christmas gift experiences for the friend who has everything

This Christmas, for the friend who's impossible to buy for: an eco-mill spa day, a century-old Yorkshire institution, a sommelier's cellar in the Lake District, and a floating sauna in Liverpool's docks — four gifts none of them will have already given themselves.

Across the North

Luxury Christmas gift experiences for treating your other half

Four ways to give an evening or a day out rather than another jumper this Christmas — a lakeside spa, a grand afternoon tea, a Michelin chef's table, and a wild sauna on Coniston Water, all genuinely giftable so the actual date stays entirely up to the two of you.

Across the North

The North's luxury outdoor (not that wild) swimming spots

Wild swimming has gone thoroughly mainstream, and with it a run of genuinely well-run spots across the North where the cold water comes with a warm robe, a decent coffee and somewhere proper to sit afterwards. Eight of the best, from a beachfront sauna in Tynemouth to a floating one in Liverpool docks.

Durham & Tyne and Wear

Luxury spa days worth the drive from Newcastle

Genuine five-star spa time is a 20-to-45-minute drive from the city, not in it — a golf resort on the Tees, a clifftop mansion on the Durham coast, and Northumberland's only five-star estate.