Weekend Cottages

Weekend Cottages – A mini-break in the UK
Weekend cottages offer families and couples the chance to take a mini-break. Long weekends are a popular way of breaking up the long weeks of work in between taking holidays abroad. By punctuating the year with a few days at a weekend cottage we get the chance to unwind and refuel, tiding us over to that eagerly anticipated package holiday or winter skiing holiday we’ve saved up for. Fortunately, you can book a country cottage for the weekend pretty much anywhere in the UK, even on a tight budget.

Weekend Cottages – Weekends in the country
It’s all about choosing your weekend cottage location wisely. Of course cheap weekends away can be found throughout the UK, but the more popular the holiday destination, the tougher the competition for self-catering accommodation. Large cottages usually carry a higher price tag than romantic cottages for two, but for family holidays in the UK can provide relatively cheap accommodation per head. If your weekend break is to be pure rest and relaxation, there are coastal cottages populating the UK’s many seaside resorts and the villages and towns nearby. Equally many farm cottages offer complete rural tranquillity, and if you’re interested in bird-watching, hiking or just the most breathtaking scenery the UK has to offer, there are all sorts and sizes of holiday cottage in recognised Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty such as Exmoor, Dartmoor, the Highlands of Scotland and the Peak District.

Weekend Cottages – Year-round weekends away
Book a weekend cottage in the UK over a bank holiday weekend, for instance over the Easter break, and you’ll not get the cheapest weekend away, but the beauty of these holiday homes from home is that the change of scenery and change of pace is just as valuable no matter what the time of year. Some of the self-catering cottages available are even ‘dog-friendly’, so families wanting to save a little money can take their pets with them rather than packing them off to boarding kennels.