News, Information and Ideas for Managing or Booking UK Holiday Cottages
View articles for holiday cottage owners and bookers. Many of these articles are mentioned in The Holiday Homefront, a monthly newsletter for holiday cottage owners that is published for free.
Other articles help anyone interested in planning a self-catering holiday, from advice on planning and booking different types of property to information on cottages offering discounts. These are published in a Newsletter for people interested in booking holiday cottages and wanting to know more about booking procedures, discounts, and holiday ideas. To receive a copy, click the Newsletter button at the bottom of the page.
Contents vary but will include the following:
- Tips on getting it right when finding and booking a particular type of holiday cottage - such as one with 'the right kind of pool' pool, or what to expect to be included in the rental price.
- Inspiring articles on our 'favourite holiday cottages' for holidays on a theme or particular location, such as holiday cottages for walkers' best luxury beach holiday cottages in Cornwall.
- When to discuss (and when not to discuss discounts) and some great deals available at the time of writing.
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Glenuaig Lodge, a remote Highland holiday cottage on the Glencarron Estate, has been selected by The Daily Telegraph as one of the Top 10 Remotest Holiday Cottages in the UK.
This converted hunting lodge on the Glencarron Estate in Wester Ross can only be reached by 4WD vehicles - unless you fancy lugging a suitcase for 2-3 miles over rough terrain. If you want to get away from it all at any time of year to find yourself where eagles and magnificent stags outnumber humans, then take a look at Glencarron's page on My Favourite Holiday Cottages. There's no need to be totally alone - it sleeps eight and has all the backup generating power you would ever need, so you'll be snug and cosy inside its metre-thick walls even in the depths of winter.
Click here to read the complete list of The Telegraph's 10 Remote Cottages.
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Yorkshire Dales Tea Rooms
The Yorkshire Dales are home to some of England’s most inspiring countryside, with heather moors, flat-topped hills and green valleys scattered with drystone dykes, farms and villages. The Dales are a paradise for walking; after that, there’s no better way to end a day of exploring than with afternoon tea at a traditional tearoom. We have a variety of holiday cottages in the Yorkshire Dales to choose from, and none of them is far from cosy tearooms where you can enjoy a pot of freshly brewed tea and a slice of homemade cake. In the meantime, here are a few of our favourite Yorkshire Dales tearooms.
With delicious food and river views, Mill Race is a must after a walk around spectacular Aysgarth Falls in Wensleydale. These traditional tearooms are at an 18th-century mill overlooking the Upper Falls. Expect cakes,
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The Holiday Homefront
Welcome to the April 2018 edition of The Holiday Homefront. This is a bit of a bumper issue. Over the past four weeks, we have found many ‘must-read articles’ you’ll past four weeks that you’ll need to relax with a cup or glass of something while you take it all in.
Main Image: Holly Tree House in Herefordshire
The Holiday Homefront is a free publication, but it will mainly appeal to anyone owning or managing holiday cottages (or planning to). It is published as and when we have a full house of interesting articles to tell you about - which is usually, but not always, once a month.
Our format is to include a title and a short snippet that conveys the purpose of the article and the benefits in store should you choose to read it in full. To read the whole story, click on the link.
You’ll also find a copy in the News section on our website: Click here to see back issues
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The North Devon Coast is widely recognised as one of the most attractive coastlines in the UK. Spectacular sunsets, Atlantic storms and a history of shipwrecks and smuggling make the North Devon coast a special place. Excellent for lazy days in summer - and bracing walks along deserted shorelines in winter.
There are so many beaches within reach of North Devon’s finest holiday cottages that you could visit one for each day of a fortnight’s holiday and still not see them all. In North Devon, between Exmoor to the Cornish border, you will find vast, sandy bays and secret, rocky coves where you can surf, take the dog for a long, peaceful stroll or while away an afternoon building sandcastles in the sun. The North Devon coast lies within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with towering cliffs (the tallest in Europe), a unique location to spot seals and dolphins from the Southwest Coast Path. We have a variety of coastal cottages in North Devon, none of
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The British countryside is scattered with historic chapels and barns, and many of those no longer used for religion or farming have been lovingly converted into holiday cottages. We offer various converted barns and chapels from Devon and Cornwall to the Highlands of Scotland, so you are bound to find one in your perfect location. In the meantime, here are a few of our favourites - not just because we like the photos but because we have been, seen and approve of their appeal.
Dolly’s Barn, Ilfracombe, Devon, EnglandA peaceful farm cottage nestled in the North Devon hills, Dolly’s Barn is set within more than three acres of paddocks and gardens near the towering cliffs, rocky coves and sandy beaches of the North Devon coast. This large Ilfracombe holiday cottage has six bedrooms, sleeps 11 guests and is one of our many holiday cottages with disabled access.
Capel Jerusalem, Abergynolwyn, WalesLuxury chapel conversion in Southern Snowdonia This
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Learn how to:
• Gather all your favourite holiday cottages together in a single list, so you need never loose, forget, or spend time searching for them.
• Add or delete cottages from your shortlist.
• Save time by sending a single enquiry to all or selected cottages on your shortlist
Adding a Cottage from its Short DescriptionWhen you conduct an initial search for cottages, you will be presented with a list of cottages with 3 images and a short description. You can work your way through the whole list, selecting those you think might be a contender.
Once you have completed your initial search, you can open your shortlist and click on a cottage to open its main page for further information. If you decide it’s not the right one for you, click on the remove button.
To Add A Cottage to a ShortlistThis is easy. – you can save a cottage at the click of a button.
From a Short Description: Click on ‘Add to My
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Our Top 10 Favourite Pubs in Cornwall
Whatever you have planned for your holiday in Cornwall, there's nothing quite like ending the day in a cosy pub, warming up by an open fire or watching fishermen land their catch in the harbour. There are too many atmospheric, old pubs in Cornwall to count, but we have picked 10 of our favourites, which we highly recommend visiting if you can. Where appropriate, we have also recommended an equally attractive Cornish holiday cottage within easy reach of a pub that takes your fancy.
13th-century inn with low ceilings, open fires and great food and drink. Take a stroll on the Southwest Coast Path before settling in for an evening at the Tinner's Arms. The menu includes Newlyn crab, Mount's Bay mackerel and 28-day-hung Cornish steak. An impressive whisky menu complements the Cornish ales and ciders on offer.
One of Cornwall's oldest pubs with outstanding
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In response to an enquiry from My Favourite Holiday Cottages as to whether their sites would incorporate ASL certification, the company responded (very promptly) to confirm that this is one of their current priorities:
*Hi Rick,
*Thanks for your email.
As per our Christmas email, we are planning to offer SSL certificates (which will allow you to have a https domain) to all customers as soon as possible. After extensive investigation and testing we have found a solution which should allow us to offer them for free, but unfortunately, we need to upgrade our servers in order to do this, so we are planning and testing for that as a priority.
At the moment, the information being sent via the PromoteMyPlace enquiry form is not submitted via SSL, as it wasn't a requirement in the past, and in fact, many websites on the internet still do not use SSL unless they're accepting very sensitive information such as credit cards.
But the
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