"Buxton Festival, 5-21 July. Buxton’s festival took off in the 1980s after the refurbishment of its Edwardian opera house. Since then it has hosted many new productions of rarely-performed operas, including the UK premiere of Kodály's Háry János, and is now home to the Northern Chamber Orchestra. These days Buxton presents five or six operas but also has an active literary wing. Its “fringe”, one of the biggest in Britain, presents smaller works in fifty venues around the town. After the show drive across the stunning Peak District National Park to Losehill House and relax in its al fresco hot tub."

"The Countrywide Hillwalkers Association was set up in 1893 to encourage the people of Britain’s cities into the fresh air that surrounded them. In what is now the Peak District National Park, the CHA built this “permanent guest house” in 1914 for weekend ramblers. Given the taste of CHA members, it was designed in the Arts & Crafts style to maximise views of Lose Hill and it was kept open all year round. By 1919 Lose Hill House was receiving over 2,000 guests a year. It was converted into a hotel in 2003 with the addition of very un-CHA facilities like ensuite rooms, sauna, swimming pool and hot tub."

"A spectacular green lung between the cities of Manchester and Sheffield, the Peak District offers all it visitors fresh air and the time and space to inhale it. As the only luxury four-star residence located inside the Peak District national park, Losehill House provides the ideal base for those who feel they deserve their creature comforts after a day’s outdoor exercise. The hotel provides this in abundance, from its 23 luxurious rooms, to spa facilities and a heated indoor pool for soothing a hill-walker’s aching legs."