Britain on the Cheap

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.

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.

Save 25% and receive a bottle for bubbly for the New Year when you rent a 17th-century stone cottage at Kestle Mill, near Newquay, Cornwall. The New Year week from Dec. 27 is now $656/£395. The two-bedroom cottage, with a woodburner and old oak beams, is near a good food pub and four miles from [...]

Christmas in Cornwall kicks off at the Padstow Christmas Festival Dec. 4-6, with an outdoor ice rink on the quayside, festive lights, fireworks reflected in the harbour waters and local musicians caroling around the Christmas tree. The food festival, inspired by Rick Stein, offers free cooking demonstrations and tastings, and stalls of Cornish produce stalls [...]

The Bay Hotel and Fistral Spa on the Pentire Headland, near Newquay, Cornwall, is offering new fall spa packages. Revitalise includes two nights’ lodging with breakfast, membership in Fistral Spa and a 30-minute spa treatment such as a salt and oil scrub, Indian head massage or a regenerating eye treatment for $158/£99 per person, now [...]