The UK Christmas Market crowned the best - and it's 411 miles away from London

The verdict astir which is the precise champion Christmas marketplace successful the UK is successful and it is good worthy travelling to this festive season, contempt being 411 miles from London

If you emotion Christmas markets, you'll privation to sojourn this 1 during the upcoming festive season.

Crowned the precise champion Christmas marketplace successful the UK for 3 years running, Edinburgh's offering ne'er fails to impressment visitors. Edinburgh goes each retired for Christmas, and the historical centre of the metropolis is filled with festive delights. The Christmas market, which is located successful East Princes Street Gardens, mixes modern amusive with festive contented - with implicit 70 stalls of food, drink, and handmade goods.

From blistery chocolate, mulled wine, and Irn Bru - thing each visitant should effort astatine slightest erstwhile - to waffles, pancakes, roasted chestnuts, and roast wraps, determination is much than capable astatine the Christmas Market to support you and the full household satiated during your clip astatine the attraction.

The marketplace runs from 15 November each the mode until 4 January and features a Santa's Grotto adjacent astatine St. Andrews Square, arsenic good arsenic a funfair filled with rides and different attractions that tin beryllium recovered successful West Princes Street Gardens, but adjacent the marketplace itself is the LNER Big Wheel and the Around the World Starflyer which promises to supply you with unforgettable views of the stunning metropolis centre - which is particularly illuminated for Christmas.

The rides astatine the Festive Funfair volition suit each ages, truthful the Edinburgh Christmas Market is earnestly family-friendly, but the festive amusive doesn't halt there. George Street features an crystal rink and a Polar Bar - wherever you tin get alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic cocktails alike - and Edinburgh's Castle has been transformed into the Castle of Light, with the iconic landmark that is affluent with past stunningly illuminated with festive lights.

You should besides marque definite to sojourn the Christmas Tree Maze successful St. Andrew's Square - but effort and publication up to marque definite you get a slot arsenic spaces are limited.

Whilst immoderate of the prices astatine the Christmas Market stalls mightiness beryllium a spot steep if you're moving with a choky budget, 1 enterprising writer for Edinburgh Live took conscionable £20 erstwhile they visited to spot conscionable however acold it could agelong and "much to my astonishment my wealth stretched overmuch further than I had anticipated."

If you are based successful the southbound of the UK, you whitethorn not beryllium inclined to question 400 miles positive to the Scottish capital, Bath Winchester, and London all made the apical 10 database too.

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