To be p*ssed off that every toddler-friendly cottage in cornwall is booked up until the year 2012??

[Lovecat]

We'll be eco-friendly and not fly, we thought....

DD will be happier if there's 'normal' (gawd help us) food on tap...

We're not going in the summer holidays, after all....

Who the feck are these super-organised bitches (I'm assuming it was the women who did it, if I left the OH to organise a holiday we'd be lucky to get out the front door to the park down the road) who have booked every f-ing cottage, apartment & stable conversion in the entire South-West???

I got sent a 'you are on our cancellations list' thing this morning and they enclosed their list for 2008 - it was also all booked up!! Why?? Just to rub it in?

Worse, there were little notes on the excel boxes with names and dates and some of these bleedin' sods booked 2008 back in 2005!

I hate them!!!!!

Actually, I don't care if IBU, I just want to rant.... that's so much better!

Buy a tent, you know you will LOVE it.

aww, go somewhere else.. ? somerset?

English Country Cottages??? National Trust cottages??

Dorset or North Norfolk, much nicer

whereabouts in cornwall? Harbour holidays have some availability in Padstow and surrounding villages.

I know these super duper organised mums really get me too. We were in the US in 1998 and wanted to camp at the Grand Canyon. We phoned one day ahead to be told they were booked up until 2007, 9 bloody years ahead!

If you are looking for next week, no wonder... I have given hope of finding a single place to stay on the way back if we are too tired to continue driving forget about a Cornwall Cottage

I've just booked a static caravan on a site near swanage for a week in June...was only £200 and i think they still had availability...can find you a link if interested.

Not as posh as a cottage but if you're on the beach/out and about all day who cares.

We're staying here

thats because cornwall is so nice,and were here!

kittypants

where are you in cornwall?

camelford-north cornwall.not exciting but pretty and near the beach and moors etc.

near boscastle and tintagel

I love Tintagel, Love it.

I know where Camelford is - we went to a beach nr there once- think it was called Crackington?

Have you looked at Hoseasons?

Torquay any good? we are renting a cottage there for only £150 for a week.

I know there is one week available there from 20th july if interested?

No, not next week - we thought end of June, early July would be okay - how stupid are we, eh?

Kbear, I would love to camp, but the OH is scarred by childhood memories of rain-lashed tents on the Gower Peninsula in the 70's and refuses to countenance it (boo hiss).

Kittypants I have fond memories of cycling the length of the Camel trail sans enfant, and had high hopes of doing it again, with her in her cute little trailer behind us - alas, I fear it will remain a pipe dream this year...

Frenchconnection - wow, that's fantastic - I'd be very interested!

How many of you? I'm always researching and booking places in Cornwall for us and when I go away with our friends. I'll have a look at some of the places I know for you.

What about a Youth Hostel? Have heard a couple of them in Cornwall are lovely.

lovecat-im lazy never done camel trail!would love to though!i'll find out a couple of places round here may have somewhere.so no tent,how about caravan?or must it be cottage?

Here you go, this one looks available \link{http://www.penquitefarm.co.uk/html/coaches-rest.html\Penquite Farm. I've stayed in the Old Granary, it was superb.

Try again

We stayed here last year. Not a cottage, but lovely, and not quite a rain soaked bit of canvas on the Gower peninsula

We're going to the Forestry Commision cabins near Liskeard this summer. If you want woodland, cycling and horses then you can't go far wrong. Only booked a little while ago.

Aww, you're all being so helpful and lovely, when all I wanted to do was have a rant... thank you!

Sufermum, how kind of you! There are just the 3 of us, but DD is used to sleeping in her own room so we ideally want a 2 bed place (although we are happy to have her in with us if needs be).

(Un)fortunately she's a very active, nosy, adventurous 2yo who knows no fear and doesn't seem to learn from experience... also likes climbing. So we need a very baby-friendly place, most of the 'ordinary' cottages and apartments don't have stairgates etc and although we could lug our own down with us, I suppose we were hoping to have everything there onsite.

Ali5, youth hostels hold the same horrors for the OH as do tents, I'm afraid... something about having to share bathrooms, strange man! And dd is going through the 'no-one must even be in the same building as me when I'm about to poo' stage, so I would prefer to be self-contained - although ill-prepared beggars can't be choosers, I suppose!