UK breaks are so expensive!

[Bridecilla]

So we've sacked off the 2 weeks in Turkey and I've been looking for something here but the prices for self catering are ££££

Even camping is £££. Thought a cottage or lodge with a hot tub would be an idea but most are sold out or £1500 + for a week

Am I missing any gems to search? Ideally Yorkshire or just below - travelling from Newcastle for a week between now and mid August

I've trawled Hoseasons, Airbnb

Ohai! Off to bed but for the night crew:

How many adults, and how many children in your party?
How many bedrooms required?
Pet friendly? How many?
Baby proofed/secure gardens?

Yehh I believe going abroad works out cheaper sometimes

I imagine prices have gone up for the UK with the extra demand.

Last year we did 2 weeks 5 star plus AI in Turkey for £2500!

Just me, dp and ds (8). Preferably 2 bedrooms

I saw some big standard cottages for £700 a night, err no thanks!

Watching with interest

It's why we've always gone abroad. It really does work out cheaper.

I was looking for a nice cottage in Cornwall and the only one I could find which looked decent and was available was £4000 for a week . Told OH and he said not a chance and that it was a piss take.

Yes I've found the same thing. I wanted to book a cottage for a few days in Scotland close to where we have relatives but there's very little available and what there is is all at least £1000 for 4 nights for 4 of us. I absolutely understand that the owners/holiday companies have lost a lot of money and are trying to recoup some of their losses but £250 per night for some fairly basic accommodation seems excessive. In previous years we have booked much nicer places for far less. But I guess so few people are going abroad so demand is sky high. We might end up staying in a premier inn as it actually works our much cheaper, though we'd have to eat out a lot more - can't expect our relatives to feed us every meal.
I don't have any real advice sorry, just wanted to say that you are not alone. Have you looked at budget hotels as an alternative? We are even wondering about youth hostels as I believe you can get family rooms in some. I just want a change of scenery to be honest!

We have used Mackays several times in the past. They seem to have re-branded themselves Cottages and Castles since then...

www.cottages-and-castles.co.uk/

My sister noticed a huge price increase at her usual hotel in Norfolk...we are off to Turkey in late September for a week as I need dental work...4* hotel Inc breakfast and transfer etc is £189 each !!.. Norfolk hotel want £129 per night !

I find cottages in Wales are cheaper. It's more hassle getting there but the prices for cottages in England are way too high.

You could try avoiding holiday hot spots and just go for a countryside break. Or.....save the money and hire a hot tub for your own garden for a week.

I heard someone from Cornwall on the radio saying how much lost revenue there would be this summer because numbers are much lower, maybe fewer day trippers or less people choosing to rent their accommodation.

We've just booked a caravan at Haven in August.

All the entertainment, swimming pools and restaurants on the Haven sites are closed, so it was only £320 for 4 nights in a luxury caravan.

Do you actually spend much time in your cottage? We dont, so usually just book a travelodge or premier inn as a cheap but clean base

I'm more interested in how you got your 5* AI Turkey for that price?

I agree it’s very expensive holidaying in the U.K. I wanted a modern hotel with breakfast and dinner near the sea but not tired furniture stately home type still looking, I don’t want a guest house either

Staying in this country is soo expensive.... such a rip off. Don’t holiday owners realise that their long time dead granny’s furniture and bedding is not justifiable for £1500 a week!

The holiday market has been dysfunctional for a while. The cheap (environmentally unfriendly) packages abroad have undercut British holidays for some time, sometimes by huge margins.

I think that's a shame.

But once people start to think that the cheap price is the 'correct' one, then British holidays are bound to come out looking more expensive. It is why a number of places have withered, which is a shame, and once a resort hotel has become flats, there's no turning back.

Buying British isn't going to be cheapest for many things, but it could be one of the most important things we do for the rest of the year to keep us going. There was a big Buy British campaign in the 1960s. It's not going to cure everything (generally opinion is mixed/lukewarm about effectiveness). but I think in these circumstances - rebuilding after brief but serious dislocation - it might a useful short-term little boost to help re-set in a more localised way.

Especially whilst global supply chains look somewhat more vulnerable

I'd try smaller independent holiday cottage companies

But prices are skyrocketing due to supply and demand. We booked ours months ago before Covid but looking at rates for the exact same week next year for the same cottage the cost has risen from £600 to £800!

@Bridecilla Hardly surprising. Household annual income in Turkey averages $3,000-ish, so labour costs - important part of travel and accommodation industry - are fraction of those in the UK.

Plus there is strong demand for holiday cottages in this country, especially from UK families with young children who don't want the rigmarole of overseas travel by plane, especially now with coronavirus. Have heard that many people who take to an area actually book the cottage for the following year when they finish their stay.

Try Pembrokeshire. Very different to north Wales. Won't be cheap, but might be cheaper than Cornwall.

I’d honestly be looking at getting a cheap second hand caravan...a tourer and if you don’t want to tow it, site it somewhere as a base, you can always have it moved somewhere else the following year.
I’ve had three tourers anf because we love york we’ve stayed in the same area for years.
Now we have a static down there.
Last year we spent about 150 nights there and at the very cheapest travelodge prices of £50 a night ( and you’d pay more in york) that works out at £7500
Our ground rent is only £2000
There are other costs as well, insurance, gas, electric and site maintenance but even if it brings it up to £2750
Still leaves a lot of dosh for food, entertainment and petrol
I just wouldn’t pay those exorbitant prices, I’d rather put that money to something that will be mine.
My dd let her still very functional vintage caravan, 5 berth go for £200
There’s incredible bargains to be had.

Have a look at Hemera holidays. Nice statics with hot tubs. Many are in Morpeth though which may be a bit close to home!
We are paying £900 for a week in a 2 bed cottage in Somerset in August- we normally pay £400 for a 2 bed in Majorca! Yes flights on top but even so UK holidays are expensive.
Roll on 2021 and hopefully a vaccine!

You need to look around. We wanted a self catering holiday for two in September or October in a popular Cornish seaside town and found it was very fully booked - what is left either looks quite nasty, is badly located or is very expensive. So we decided to go slightly further afield to somewhere with easy travel links to the original place, and found a reasonable choice of well-placed cottages in mid September which is the ideal time for us.

@AlwaysCheddar

Staying in this country is soo expensive.... such a rip off. Don’t holiday owners realise that their long time dead granny’s furniture and bedding is not justifiable for £1500 a week!

Supply and demand. If there isn't a market for it, it won't let. The big holiday cottage companies are usually pretty astute to what will and will not work and advise accordingly.