It’s the break you deserve
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The best European cities for festive fun
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The festive season calls for evenings spent wandering bustling streets hung with beautiful lights, warm drink in one hand and something exceptionally sugary/covered in melted cheese in the other. Ready your best big jumpers, because we’ve rounded up the most magical Hox cities for your European Yuletide break.
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Proper Christmas vibes in Vienna
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Vienna serves twinkling festive magic at every turn. Grab a hot punch at the sprawling Wiener Christkindlmarkt on Rathausplatz, the (180-year-old) mother of Viennese Christmas markets with charming rides, ice skating and a giant advent calendar, while at Spittelberg it’s intimate festive vibes with eclectic stalls on narrow, cobbled streets.
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See the best of winter Brussels
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Get wrapped up and wander the 200 twinkling chalets of the Winter Wonders and Christmas Market, including retro rides, a sound and light show and plenty of skating, then head back to Hox for a rooftop nightcap and a super comfy bed. Fabulously festive, with gift-list completion built-in: who doesn’t want bona-fide Belgian chocolate for Christmas?
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See the best of winter Brussels
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Get wrapped up and wander the 200 twinkling chalets of the Winter Wonders and Christmas Market, including retro rides, a sound and light show and plenty of skating, then head back to Hox for a rooftop nightcap and a super comfy bed. Fabulously festive, with gift-list completion built-in: who doesn’t want bona-fide Belgian chocolate for Christmas?
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See Amsterdam’s amazing art
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Get a little more artsy this Christmas with a cultural break. You’ve got your holiday markets and your skating of course, but the Amsterdam Light Festival is a gorgeous city-wide series of light installations with guided walking tours, canal boat trips or just wandering ‘til you see something. It runs until 19 January, so it’s perfect for post-Christmas chill, too.
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London’s shopping, shows and cosy pubs are on point, with Christmas joy in all corners. Covent Garden always goes all out on decorations, while the Southbank Centre’s Winter Market delivers festive cheer riverside. All the city’s covered markets get twinkly, including Spitalfields, Greenwich and Borough, so tour the highlights then grab a cab to one of our four London gaffs.
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London’s shopping, shows and cosy pubs are on point, with Christmas joy in all corners. Covent Garden always goes all out on decorations, while the Southbank Centre’s Winter Market delivers festive cheer riverside. All the city’s covered markets get twinkly, including Spitalfields, Greenwich and Borough, so tour the highlights then grab a cab to one of our four London gaffs.
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Fancy festive fun in Paris
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You deserve an elegant, fun weekender full of raclette and vin chaud. Eat, drink and play at the Jardin des Tuileries Christmas Market with its funfair, weekend shows and gourmet treats, or seek out the elaborate window displays of the city’s famous department stores, including Galeries Lafayette where the decorations continue indoors under the stained glass dome.
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