There had been a reported increase in the number of people having 'staycations' this year.
This has been welcomed by hotel owners across the country and will surely have a positive effect on the UK's economy (which needs all the help it can get).
Although I hate to admit it, Britain can't hope to compete with Europe when it comes to beach weather, or even beaches.
But, Britain does have a lot to offer holiday makers.
The focus of this article is whether the hotels of the UK are at a standard which matches those abroad.
I've stayed in a number of hotels at home and abroad and to be honest I've had mixed experiences in both cases.
On average I'd say that Britain's hotels are better on the whole, but you pay for it.
British hotels are, partly because of the price of the Euro, somewhat more expensive to stay in which is why camping and caravan holidays are so popular in the UK.
As far as I'm concerned, one of the marks of a good hotel is the quality of its full English breakfast.
Surely this is where England comes up trumps? Despite other countries strong efforts to win over English holiday makers with their wholly English-ised breakfasts, there is an art to a traditional fry up that only some actually master.
The same can be said though for some British hotels.
Some have even gone the other way and offer a 'continental' breakfast instead - needless to say I disapprove.
Cost aside for a moment, the reluctance of British hotel owners to go down the 'budget' route has meant the standard of the hotels in the UK has remained, on average, quite high.
In other countries - particularly some of the popular student destinations - the market has been flooded by budget hotels where 'cheap' is the new 'clean'.
The irony perhaps is that some holiday destinations abroad are so dominated by English holiday makers it feels more like home than home does (except you can get a tan and the sea isn't sub-zero).
Warm weather and cheap drink are often at the top of the list for holiday makers; this is to the detriment of the UK hotel industry.
The industry can't hope to compete with somewhere like Greece on sunshine, but it does have an awful lot going for it: maybe this year with some people forced to stay at home the industry will revitalise in a spectacular way - we'll see.
This has been welcomed by hotel owners across the country and will surely have a positive effect on the UK's economy (which needs all the help it can get).
Although I hate to admit it, Britain can't hope to compete with Europe when it comes to beach weather, or even beaches.
But, Britain does have a lot to offer holiday makers.
The focus of this article is whether the hotels of the UK are at a standard which matches those abroad.
I've stayed in a number of hotels at home and abroad and to be honest I've had mixed experiences in both cases.
On average I'd say that Britain's hotels are better on the whole, but you pay for it.
British hotels are, partly because of the price of the Euro, somewhat more expensive to stay in which is why camping and caravan holidays are so popular in the UK.
As far as I'm concerned, one of the marks of a good hotel is the quality of its full English breakfast.
Surely this is where England comes up trumps? Despite other countries strong efforts to win over English holiday makers with their wholly English-ised breakfasts, there is an art to a traditional fry up that only some actually master.
The same can be said though for some British hotels.
Some have even gone the other way and offer a 'continental' breakfast instead - needless to say I disapprove.
Cost aside for a moment, the reluctance of British hotel owners to go down the 'budget' route has meant the standard of the hotels in the UK has remained, on average, quite high.
In other countries - particularly some of the popular student destinations - the market has been flooded by budget hotels where 'cheap' is the new 'clean'.
The irony perhaps is that some holiday destinations abroad are so dominated by English holiday makers it feels more like home than home does (except you can get a tan and the sea isn't sub-zero).
Warm weather and cheap drink are often at the top of the list for holiday makers; this is to the detriment of the UK hotel industry.
The industry can't hope to compete with somewhere like Greece on sunshine, but it does have an awful lot going for it: maybe this year with some people forced to stay at home the industry will revitalise in a spectacular way - we'll see.