The wedding place of Lord Byron, Seaham Hall Hotel is steeped in romance and English history. Unwind in its Serenity Spa or explore the bluffs and moors outside.

Seaham Hotel & Serenity Spa offers its guests traditional English hospitality and downright balmy spa treatments that will be sure to chase away any chills you might catch outside.

One the Seaham's most sought-after attractions is its hydrotherapy-based Serenity Spa. A standard five-star hotel spa might offer a steam room, a Turkish bath, and a salt-water pool. Seaham's Serenity spa offers all these, and then some.

Rotate between the ozone-cleansed 67-ft. pool (with massage stations), the outdoor thermal baths, the 12 hydrotherapy tubs, the Turkish hammam, the dry sauna with quartz crystal, and the granite steam room. Then, just when your body is about to melt, rub ice chips over yourself from the ice fountain and jump into the freezing plunge pools.

In the evening, drive down to Newcastle and be swept away by some of the UK's raciest nightlife. Afterward, relax in one of the Seaham's 18 immaculately decorated suites.