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UK, Ireland & one-night city breaks

Hattie Marlow

Writes the UK and Ireland city plans, the UK, from-London, train, couples and family rankings, and the guide to planning a 24-hour trip.

Published work

14 signed pages across 3 collections, biggest section first.

24-hour cities 8

BathThe Roman Baths on a timed ticket, lunch at the Guildhall Market, Pulteney Bridge, The Circus and the Royal Crescent, a Sally Lunn's set dinner, the Thermae rooftop pool after dark, and Bath Abbey on Saturday.Read
DublinThe Book of Kells, Bewley's on Grafton Street, the free National Museum, St Patrick's Cathedral, the Guinness Storehouse, dinner at The Brazen Head and a trad session at The Cobblestone.Read
EdinburghEdinburgh Castle at opening time, the Royal Mile and St Giles', a hog roast roll on Victoria Street, the free National Museum, sunset on Calton Hill, haggis for dinner, folk music, and Arthur's Seat on Saturday.Read
GlasgowGlasgow Cathedral and the Necropolis, lunch in the 1903 Mackintosh Tearooms, the Subway to Kelvingrove, dinner on Ashton Lane, whisky at The Pot Still and the free Riverside Museum on Saturday.Read
LiverpoolThe Beatles Story on the Royal Albert Dock, the free Museum of Liverpool, a Mersey ferry past the Three Graces, Bold Street, the cathedral tower, Baltic Market and a night at the Cavern Club.Read
LondonWestminster Abbey before the Friday crowds, a 2-mile riverside walk to Borough Market, Tate Modern and St Paul's, dinner at Dishoom and a West End show, then the British Museum on Saturday.Read
ManchesterThe Science and Industry Museum, the John Rylands Library, lunch at Mackie Mayor, Afflecks, the National Football Museum, pizza in Ancoats and a Northern Quarter night, priced for January and June.Read
YorkYork Minster and the city walls, lunch at Shambles Market, a booked slot at Jorvik, tea at Bettys, the nightly ghost walk from the King's Arms, and the free National Railway Museum before your Saturday train.Read

Rankings 5

Guides 1

How to plan a 24-hour tripThe rules that make one night work: when to arrive, where to leave a bag, which day tickets cover the airport, which sights sell out and which weekday closes them. All from our 45 city records.Read

About Hattie

Hattie covers the cities where a one-night trip is easiest to pull off: London, Edinburgh, Bath, York, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Dublin. Each plan has its stops in order with times, the train or airport ride with the operator's fare, and the hotel price found for the same two Fridays as every other city. Bath and York have no airport of their own, so the method counts their arrival as a short walk from the station.

She also writes the rankings that start from Britain: the best one-night city breaks in the UK, the best one-night city breaks from London and city breaks by train from London, plus the couples and family lists. Her guide to planning a 24-hour trip covers arrival times, one bag, the one hotel night and the closing days that break a plan. Its sharpest warning comes from the data: Manchester's June 11, 2027 Friday was $356 (£267) against $76 (£57) in January.

Hattie is an editorial persona. The research, the sourcing and the arithmetic behind her pages are real; the privacy page explains how our bylines work.