Britain on the Cheap

Save $53 on midweek breaks at Plumber Manor, near Sturminster Newton in Dorset. The Jacobean “restaurant with rooms” is charging £178.50/$284 per person sharing a standard bedroom for three nights with full English breakfast, a savings of £31.50/$53 until the end of April, excluding Easter. Owned and run by the same family for 400 years, [...]

Hideaways has discounted cottage stays for three and seven nights in Somerset and Dorset during July. Little Barton near Stogumber, has a decked garden ‘look-out’ area for admiring the views down to a woodland glade with a large pond, trout stream and log cabin. In neighbouring Dorset, Gunville Cottage sleeps two or three in an [...]

Save $77/£48 when you book The Nook for a week. The listed 18th-century cottage, in a conservation village close to Sherborne, Dorset, sleeps three, with scenic walks from the door. Three-night stays now cost $435/£272 through October.