Revealed: UK's favourite European city break destinations

Krakow in Poland and Spain’s Valencia have beaten more famous destinations to be named the UK’s favourite European city breaks.

The cities were ranked by consumer group Which? on a number of different criteria including value for money so you might be tempted to make them your next destinations to visit.

Of the 31 popular destinations rated, Krakow and Valencia jointly topped the list with scores of 92%.

Krakow scored a full five stars for its cultural sites and attractions, and boasts a wealth of historic gems, from the famous Wawel Royal Castle to its town hall tower. Visitors can while away the hours drinking in the atmosphere in the city’s medieval square, the largest of its kind in Europe, or head out to explore the sights in the city’s vibrant Jewish quarter.

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Just a few miles outside of the city, the Wieliczka salt mine also proved popular with survey respondents, with one visitor saying they were "amazed" by the scale of the underground attraction.

Visitors to Valencia awarded it five stars for attractions, lauding the city’s intriguing blend of old and new, with its charming old town sitting in sharp contrast to the "spectacular" and "futuristic" City of Arts and Sciences. The latter is home to attractions including an open air oceanographic park, opera house, museum of science and planetarium.

Sweden’s capital Stockholm followed closely behind with a destination score of 91%. The Scandinavian city scored five stars for ease of getting around, and four stars for food and drink, accommodation and cultural sites and attractions.

Visitors praised the ABBA museum as “great fun” while the Vasa museum also proved popular, offering an “unmissable” opportunity to see a salvaged 17th century ship. The city did fall down on value for money however, receiving just two stars in this category.

Tied in third place with a score of 89% were Berlin, Funchal and Seville.

Germany’s capital city Berlin scored five stars for ease of getting around, with one respondent noting that there is “so much to see and visit and all within a relatively compact area”.

It also received five stars for its cultural sites and attractions, which include the Berlin Wall memorial, Brandenburg Gate and Pergamonmuseum. It scored four stars both for accommodation and for quality of food and drink.

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Funchal, the largest city on the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira, scored five stars for accommodation and for food and drink, with visitors praising the array of restaurants to choose from in the old town district.

It scored highly for ease of getting around, and was also one of just three destinations in the survey to score four stars for value for money, with a hotel room costing £108 a night on average.

Seville, capital of Spain’s sunny Andalusia region, scored five stars for food and drink, as well as for its cultural sites and attractions.

Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: “The weak pound has made holidays to most European countries more expensive, but our survey shows that looking beyond the most famous destinations for your next city break pays off.”

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