Britain on the Cheap

Save 20% on seven nights at Victoria Cottage in the riverside village of Lyng, Norfolk, during November. The cottage, close to Norwich and good for walking, cycling and bird-watching, is now £253/$418 per week, saving £63/$104.    

Save 25% on Pretoria Cottage in Norfolk and breathe in the luscious lavender nearby. The cottage, sleeping four in the coastal village of Heacham, is only a couple of minutes’ drive from the lavender farm, open daily. Pretoria Cottage is a short walk to a sandy beach and close to the Royal Sandringham estate and [...]

The Bank Holiday, starting Aug. 26, still has some good overnight bargains. The Cider Barn, near Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, is 15% off, with a three nights’ rental now £313/$515, saving £55/$91. The bright conversion, for a couple, is on the doorstep of Border castles, the cathedral towns of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester, and walking, cycling, riding [...]

Save 20% and enjoy a free home-cooked hamper meal one night when you book a week at The Bothy, a little 16th-century cottage in east Devon. The week is now £368/$587, saving £92/$147 until July 15, then £525/$838, saving £131/$209, including a welcome food hamper and a bottle of wine.

Don’t panic, there’s still room in London for the Royal Wedding! SACO serviced apartment company has last-minute availability at locations across the city from April 28-May 1. Prices include VAT and are subject to a two-night minimum stay: SACO Fleet Street costs £129/$206 per night for a studio apartment, sleeping two. SACO Spitalfields costs £190/$302 [...]

A whitewashed family cottage for four near Mawnan Smith in southwest Cornwall has been reduced by 20% for Easter. Trerose Farm Cottage is now £379/$602 for the week from April 15-22. The cottage is on a 200-acre dairy/beef farm just half a mile from Durgan Beach and about four miles from Falmouth. The cottage has [...]

Save up to $91 on short breaks at two Cornwall cottages through the end of March. The Little Barn is a detached home within a four-acre subtropical garden between Penzance and St. Ives. Sleeping two, it overlooks an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to the sea at Mounts Bay and is reduced to £234/$396 for [...]

Toad Hall Cottages is offering a discount on Warren Cottage, an 18th-century fisherman’s home with harbor views of the old Cornish fishing village of Polperro. Sleeping four, the cottage is now £263/$423 per week, saving £66/$106, until the end of March. The same deal applies to Ten Steps in Polperro, a beamed, listed cottage sleeping [...]

London hotel prices are skyrocketing around the April 29 royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, but Coach House Rentals has limited its increase to just 20% and only for the three nights of April 28, 29 and 30. For the week of April 24- May 1, Donne Place house in Chelsea, with two [...]

Cozy cottages—even some that welcome pets–are available 20% off through February from Toad Hall Cottages. Lime Cottage, in the old quarter of the Somerset coastal resort of Minehead, has views of the sea and coastline. Reduced to £200/$320 per week, saving £50/$77, it sleeps up to four. The Bolt Hole offers shared use of an [...]