Britain on the Cheap

Save 25% or more when you book at least five nights at St. Martin’s on the Isle in the Scilly Isles. The hotel, beside the sea on the island of St Martin’s, has reduced the cost of one night with breakfast and dinner to £150/$232, saving £50/$77, while children are £25/$39 per night with breakfast [...]

Dreaming of a Cornish cottage this month? Cornish Horizons has savings up to 25% off in July. Save £268/$393 at The Sailmakers, a Grade 11 listed sail loft sympathetically converted into a contemporary holiday home in the center of old Padstow, with under-cover parking. Starting July 16, the loft, for up to six, is 25% [...]

The Dunes, which sleeps six in Constantine Bay near Padstow, Cornwall, has a discounted vacancy for seven nights starting June 26. The new rate is £636/$927, saving £160/$254. The house, next to the championship Trevose golf club, welcomes pets. The booking includes a free Cornwall Tourist Pass.

Porthcothan House, overlooking Porthcothan Bay in Cornwall, is offering short-break discounts on top of under-occupancy deals. The farmhouse, which usually sleeps 11, is 25% off year round for parties of six or fewer; book it at low season and save more. For instance, save up to £577/$835 on the low-season, full-week price of £1,320/$1,909 when [...]

Looking for a free tee time? Merlin apartments has three holiday homes overlooking the Merlin Golf Club near the family beach at Mawgan Porth in Cornwall. Save 20% when one or two people stay at a cottage — plus free golf. The week beginning May 14, for example, is now $534/£328, down from $668/£410 at [...]

WHOOSH! The UK’s first Flow Rider, an artificial standing wave 12 meters wide, is now up and splashing at Retallack Resort & Spa, near Wadebridge, Cornwall. Riders, who must be 52″/132cm tall, will draw on a mixture of surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding, and wakeboarding skills, and Flow Riding instructors can help out. Fees are $40/£25 for [...]

Looking to save on a cottage for the second week of Easter holidays? Puffins, a recently refurbished 300-year-old fisherman’s cottage in the little Cornish harbour town of Looe, is reduced $182/£112 for the week beginning April 10. The price for the cottage, which sleeps four, is now $528/£325. Need more room? Across the arched Victorian [...]

Cornwall’s Minack Theatre and Visitor Centre in Porthcurno, Penzance, will launch its new season April 2-5 and 10-12 with Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” The remarkable Minack has a rough stage and seating carved out of rock, with a gorgeous view of the sea as its backdrop. The theater won an Enjoy England Award in [...]

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 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.