Britain on the Cheap

Save 20% on a cottage for two converted from listed farm buildings near the South Devon sailing center of Noss Mayo. It’s now $378/£252 for a week’s stay from March 13 and 27. The cottage is half a mile from the sea, and guests have shared use of a games room and hard tennis court.

Two Cornwall cottages near the National Trust’s Cotehele estate have been discounted for one-week stays throughout March. Kingslea, a one-bedroom home with countryside views two miles from Cotehele, is reduced by a third to $216/£144 per week. Or only a woodland walk away from Cotehele is Comfort Wood Cottage, a renovated former barn on a [...]

Save up to $289/£182 on The Lodge, a detached, thatched cottage near Fordingbridge, Hampshire. The three-bedroom cottage has gardens with ponds and a stream, plus access to the New Forest heathland where wild ponies and cattle graze. Three-night stays from $465/£297, saving $199/£127; seven-night stays are £424, saving $289/£182. Through March 5.

It may be hard to imagine at the moment, but summer really will arrive. Save $325/£200 off Cliff Cottage, Salcombe, South Devon, when you book by Feb. 20. The three-bedroom period property is next to Salcombe Yacht Club and within a short stroll of shops, quays and restaurants. The bargain weeks are June 18-July 17, [...]

Save 20% when you book a party of six or fewer in Cowries, a detached bungalow near Constantine Bay and three miles from Padstow in Cornwall. Pets are welcome. Save 20% off the starting rate of $986/£607 per week, beginning today and running through May 20.

Save 50% on Valentine’s Sunday night when you book a SACO serviced apartment on Feb. 12 and 13 in Bath, Derby or Manchester. A studio or one-bed apartment in Bath starts at $107/£65 per night, Manchester at $126/£79 and Derby at $166/£101.

Save 25% when you step back three centuries and book a historic cottage near Salisbury in Wiltshire.

Thatched 17th-century Cosy Cot is next to the Norman church in a village seven miles from the cathedral city. Restored and modernized, it has a Visit Britain gold award for exceptional quality. Cosy Cot is a short walk [...]

Swinging through London to catch the end of the January sales? Save 42% per night when you stay at SACO’s apartments in Holborn, rated one of the top three small hotels in the city at the 2009 Visit London awards. A one-bed apartment, sleeping two, will cost $223/£135 per night, saving $163/£98 throughout weekends in [...]

Save up to $76 when you book a quiet cottage on the South Devon coast. Toad Hall Cottages is offering a detached coach house, sleeping two, for $311/£199 per week in January, a savings of $124/£76. A former stable block, now a contemporary home for six, is reduced to $471/£286 per week through February–saving $117/£71.

Save $238 when you welcome the New Year in your own Canadian log home near the Cornish coast walk. Pine Haven near Padstow, 10 minutes’ drive from the beach, is now $992/£597 for the week starting Dec. 29, down from $1,230/£746.