Top 10 romantic Easter holidays: Get away with your loved-one

1. Join the party in New York.

See the Easter bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue (between 49th to 57th Streets) with its colourfully clashing hats and party atmosphere!

Three-night stay at centrally located at The Hotel @ Times Square over Easter costs from $765 total (or £251 pp for two sharing) including breakfast and WiFi, plus usual taxes. Flights extra – from £489 pp with Skyscanner. (applecorehotels.com)

2.  Escape for a romantic hideaway in Devon for two in a converted 16th Century Chapel.

Price £420 for April 3-10.

The apartment has many original features, including beautiful arched windows, mixed with a retro-feel-kitchen complete with diner booth-style seating.

You’ll find it at the estate at Pickwick Manor in Devon, just half a mile from the sea and near the long sandy beaches of Putsborough and Woolacombe Sands. (pickwellmanor.co.uk)

3. Celebrate Easter... for a second time... with a 10-night holiday in the south Peloponnese, Greece – from £644pp.

This year, the Greek Easter holidays are one week after ours and Sunvil Holiday’s leaves from Gatwick on April 4 for 10 night’s B&B at the Villa Zoe Hotel.

Enjoy the candle-lit procession there on Good Friday, with fireworks after Holy Saturday Mass.

On Sunday, the hotel provides a traditional feast, including painted eggs and spit-roast lamb.

Price for two sharing includes Easter Feast, return flights and transfers. (020 8758 4758/sunvil.co.uk) 

4. Forget eggs, find fossils instead in Dorset from £375 pp with the Alexandra Hotel in pretty Lyme Regis.

The Jurassic Coast here with its rugged cliffs displays over 185 million years of geology.

The hotel offers sea views and locally-sourced food.

A three-night stay over Easter Bank Holiday costs from £750 per room/£375 pp (two sharing) including breakfast and dinner. (01297 442 010/hotelalexandra.co.uk)

5. Tuck into a fish supper after a beach walk along Durham’s beautiful Heritage Coast with a stay at Seaham Hall, set among 37 acres of landscaped gardens in a striking cliff-top location.

Their Easer Escape costs from £299 pp (two sharing) for two nights’ B&B in a Junior Suite, chocolates, an Easter-themed afternoon tea, a traditional fish supper, dinner on the second night and full spa access. (0191 516 1400/seaham-hall.co.uk)

6.  Enjoy everything from quirky, vintage shops, to the ABBA museum on the leafy island of Djurgården on an Easter weekend in Stockholm.

Stay at the chic Berns Hotel in a superior room from  £153 pp - home to one of the city’s hottest nightclubs.

Price includes buffet breakfast each day, half a bottle of champagne on arrival and special Easter sweets.

Two nights cost from 1,974 SEK pp/approx. £153 (two sharing).

Call Berns on +468 566 322 50/berns.se. 

7. Take a lake cruise by paddle steamer with an Easter stay at Holbeck Ghyll – looking out over Lake Windermere.

The countryside is awash with the daffodils that inspired Lakeland poet William Wordsworth, who lived in nearby Grasmere.

Visit his home before heading back to the hotel for award-winning cuisine.

Arriving on Easter Friday, a three-night stay costs from £453 pp (two sharing) including champagne afternoon tea on arrival, daily full English breakfast and three-course dinner with coffee and petit fours, entrance to William Wordsworth’s Dove cottage and lake cruise.

Call Pride of Britain Hotels on 0800 089 3929/prideofbritainhotels.com).

8.  Shape-up at the fitness centre with a yoga or Pilates class at Portugal’s Penha Longa activity retreat, just half an hour from Lisbon.

Nestled within a stunning national nature reserve, you’ll find it near the coastal town of Cascais.

There’s an on-site luxury spa too.

Health and Fitness Travel offers 7 nights at Penha Longa from £1,010pp B&B, return flights and transfers.

Get 4 nights for the price of 3 throughout April.

Contact Penha Longa (0845 5441936/healthandfitnesstravel.com). 

9. Enjoy a week at four-star lakeside Grand Hotel Menaggio with optional excursions to Milan and St Moritz when you book in for a week’s holiday, arriving April 4 with Voyages Jules Verne.

Price £825 pp includes BA flights (Heathrow), transfers, B&B, a late afternoon private lake cruise on Como, and the services of guides and local representatives.

Call Voyages Jules Verne on 0845 166 7035/vjv.com. 

10. Book your partner for a week in a laundry!

The lovely Amity tranquil cottage was originally the laundry room for Devon’s Pickwick Manor.

Now it has a quirky breeze block and scaffolding bookcase in the lounge and mezzanine loft-style bedroom.

Nearby beaches include Croyde Bay and Saunton Sands – which are perfect for surfing.

Usual rate for the week is £420 from April 10, but the cottage is free from Tues April 7 if you want to extend your stay. (pickwellmanor.co.uk)