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large house for a week
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 1:14 pm
by Gavin
I remember this coming up previously but cannot see anything obvious.
Thinking of trying to book out a large house somewhere in the UK for 6 adults and 7 kids and possibly a couple of dogs. Air BNB and cottage bookings are just daft money.
Has anyone got any companies worth trying?
Would happily consider static caravans type things too.
Re: large house for a week
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 2:24 pm
by dinny_g
Re: large house for a week
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 5:03 pm
by mr_jon
We're trying to find something at the right price for half term week. Sykes, Sally's Cottages, will ask the mrs what other sites she is using. Anything reasonably priced goes very quickly.
Re: large house for a week
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 5:39 pm
by V8Granite
We got our 14 sleeper in Scotland from Cottages and Castkes I believe.
Dave!
Re: large house for a week
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 10:31 pm
by DeskJockey
We're doing something similar, but for later in the year. Looked at several of the usual sites, but have to concede that Airbnb has the best cancellation policy. Some of the other sites wanted what amounted to full price up front with no cancellation rights or a sliding scale that started with 50% lost if you cancelled nine weeks before the booking (and going downhill from there).
We're trying to manage the complexity that we want to be able to cancel if people can't travel from abroad. That seems to be a tricky issue and as we (as a family) lost nearly a grand on last year's booking, people are naturally a bit wary.
Re: large house for a week
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 10:57 pm
by Jobbo
Might be a useless suggestion, but the Landmark Trust has plenty of interesting properties and you may get lucky with price and availability.
Re: large house for a week
Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 10:57 am
by Gavin
Cheers, everyone. Turns out the dates we had planned don't work so back to looking at a long weekend instead.