Book Self Catering Holiday Cottages in the UK and explore our wonderful countryside

There is nothing like a getaway holiday in the UK in one of the many beautiful farm holiday cottages available throughout the areas of outstanding natural beauty and National Parks such as the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, Norfolk Broads, Dorset, Devon, Peak District, Snowdonia, Exmouth, Northumberland, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Scotland, Wales and many more places and settings.

The attractions of a holiday cottage are that you answer to no-one - self catering is always easy when the cottages are well-equipped, a coal or log fire during the autumn and winter (holiday cottages often have their own pre-supplied coal bunker) plus the fact that you can head off for a week or just a 3 or 4 day break.  For that reason, self-catering holiday cottages are very popular at half-term, Christmas, New Year and many other weekends when couples or families just want to get away for a few days.

Holiday cottages in the UK remain popular throughtout the year as families, trippers and walkers are just as likely to seek solace and peace in the winter months as well as the naturally more popular summer months.  We've put together an excellent selection of holiday cottage providers for you so that you can browse and select the perfect short break or even longer holiday.  Holiday cottages in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are hugely popular and, if you're feeling very adventurous, France also has an idyllic countryside full of excellent cottages.

English Country Cottages - 20 years experience throughout England
Hoseasons Country Cottages in Scotland - the finest selection of holiday cottages in Scotland
Hoseasons Country Cottages in Wales - the finest selection of holiday cottages in Wales
Blakes Country Cottages - thousands of cottages across the UK and Ireland
Holiday Cottages Direct - book direct to independent cottage owners in the UK and Ireland

Hoseasons Cottages

See a selection of top cottages with Hoseasons this Autumn and Winter:

Glen Studio sleeps 2 Location: South of England Studio style accommodation. Sitting room partitioned area with double bed. Kitchen with dining area. Bathroom/WC with separate shower cubicle. Weekly Prices From £226.00		Blythwood Cottage sleeps 3 Location: South West of England Entrance into well equipped kitchen with dining area. Comfortable sitting room with electric fire and patio doors to conservatory. Cloakroom/W.C. First floor: Spacious double bedroom. Single bedroom. Bathroom/W.C. (shower over bath). Weekly Prices From £248.00
Unicorn Cottage sleeps 3 Location: Heart of England A super combination of character and modern technology. Open plan sitting/dining room with electric 'wood burner effect' stove in stone fireplace wood laminate floors. Well equipped kitchen. Double bedroom with four poster bed. Shower room/W.C. (shower has shower seat and optional steam facility). First floor: Gallery with single bed (for + 1). Weekly Prices From £265.00		Styles sleeps 6 Location: South of England Sitting room with sofa bed (for + 2) and kitchen and dining areas. Twin bedded room with cabin beds (for + 2 children). Bathroom/W.C. Double bedroom. Weekly Prices From £336.00
Farmhouse Cottage sleeps 4 Location: North of England Lovely sitting/dining room with wood burning stove and vaulted beamed ceiling. Well equipped fitted kitchen. Bathroom/W.C. Full size bunk bedded room with hand made beds and vaulted beamed ceiling. Beamed double bedroom. Weekly Prices From £289.00		Orchard View sleeps 5 Location: North of England Very comfortable spacious beamed sitting room with orchard views leading to open plan living room with wood burning stove dining area and modern fitted kitchen with fell views. First floor: Minstrel gallery with double bedroom and twin bedded room. Bathroom/W.C. (power shower over bath). Weekly Prices From £304.00
The Willows sleeps 4 Location: East of England Open plan sitting room with kitchen and dining areas. Cloakroom/W.C. First floor: Double bedroom. Twin bedded room. Bathroom/W.C. Weekly Prices From £299.00		Lane Cottage sleeps 10 Very comfortable beamed open plan sitting room with wood burner and kitchen and dining areas and French doors to terrace with countryside and garden views. Second sitting room with TV and sofa bed (for alternative sleeping only). Up two steps to bathroom/W.C. Double bedroom. Small twin bedded room (for + 2). Twin bedded room. Bathroom/W.C. Stairs down to double bedroom with TV and ensuite wet room/W.C. Utility area. Double bedroom with sitting/dining area and ensuite bathroom/W.C. (shower over bath). Weekly Prices From £489.00
Tile Cottage sleeps 3 Location: South of England Entrance hall. Sitting room with electric fire and modern fitted kitchen area. Conservatory with dining area. Double bedroom with additional single bed (for + 1). Bathroom/W.C. Weekly Prices From £248.00		Ty Du Granary sleeps 3 Hall. Double bedroom with additional single bed (for + 1). Shower room/W.C. First floor: Open plan sitting/dining room with electric fire and well equipped kitchen area. Weekly Prices From £254.00

France Holiday Cottages and Villas
If you're feeling more ambitious and want to explore France, Hoseasons French Country Cottages and Villas has an excellent selection of France holiday cottages covering all popular regions such as Champagne, Burgundy, Normandy, Brittany, the Loire and many more areas.  Click here to see their selection of France holiday cottages.

Travel to France
If you're travelling to France to stay in a holiday cottage, then you'll probably need transport that includes the car. Condor Ferries runs ferry routes from Weymouth to St Malo and Poole to St Malo as well as Portsmouth to Cherbourg.  Click here to book a ferry to Brittany with Condor Ferries.

Alternatively, P&O Ferries has some great deals on Dover to Calais Ferries this year.  Click here to book a ferry to Calais with P&O Ferries.

Car Rental
If you need a bigger car, people carrier or 4x4 to squeeze your family and luggage for your holiday in the UK or France, the best option is to hire exactly what you need for your holiday.

National Car Rental and Hertz allow you to hire exactly what you need so that you'll have room for the family and all that luggage.

Click here to hire a car with National Car Rental
Click here to rent a car with Hertz rentacar