LATE AVAILABILITY: EASTER ESCAPES FROM PREMIER COTTAGES

March 2022: From family-friendly and “Dog’s Welcome” stays to cosy cottages for two, Premier Cottages still has availability at a wide range of properties for Easter. Availability includes:

Darwin Cottage, rural hideaway on the South Downs Way in Sussex

Darwin Cottage is located in the quiet Sussex village of Jevington, a short drive from the coast. Walkers are spoilt for choice here with an abundance of stunning strolls on the South Downs Way accessible from the door. Also within easy reach are the iconic Seven-Sisters, The Long Man of Wilmington, Michelham Priory and Glyndebourne Opera House.

Children are well-catered for too with Seven Sisters Country Park, Drusilla’s Park, Knockhatch Adventure Park and Eastbourne Steam Miniature Railway all nearby.

Inside the cottage features a sociable open plan kitchen/dining and living area, a double and twin bedroom and two bathrooms. A week’s stay for four arriving on 15th April costs £625 including a welcome pack with home-made bread, butter, a selection of jams, free range eggs, chocolates, biscuits, tea, coffee and milk. (www.premiercottages.co.uk, 01323 484124) 

Airhouses – luxury lodges with hot tubs in Scotland

Set in hundreds of acres on an organic family-run hill farm, Airhouses features five luxurious, self-catering lodges, all with private hot tubs. Children and the young at heart can get up close to donkeys, alpacas, sheep, goats, geese and Shetland ponies here. There is also an abundance of wildlife to enjoy including deer, brown hares, buzzards, foxes, and a huge host of bird life.

Located in the gorgeous Scottish Borders, just 20 miles south of Edinburgh. The properties are ideally placed for exploring both the Scottish Borders with all its history, market towns, abbeys and castles as well as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Loch Lomond and The Trossachs.

Each is equipped to a very high standard, and comes with dressing gowns, towels, slippers and toiletries along with Smart TVs, Bluetooth speaker and 5G Wi-Fi. The onsite Farm Shop stocks local produce and handy high quality ready meals for easy cooking.  A week in The Buchanan lodge for six costs £1999 and a week for two in The Lodge costs £950, both arriving on 15th April. Also, available for Easter is luxury holiday home Capercailie, which sleeps ten. A six night stay costs £3575 arriving 16th April. (www.premiercottages.co.uk, 077857 58375)

Wooladon Estate, Devon

Located in rolling countryside in the Tamar Valley on the Devon and Cornwall border,  Wooladon Estate features a beautiful Georgian farmhouse and five adjoining barns. Onsite is a dog friendly circular four mile trail with woodland and riverside walks plus picnic benches and estate tracks that are great for cycling.

Guests can enjoy on site carp fishing, an arrival meal service (additional charge) on arrangement plus the owners’ award winning Strawberry Fields Farm Shop and Restaurant are just a short walk away.  

Wooladon’s Gatherley View sleeps four, a three night’s stay arriving on 15th April is £466 and a week arriving on 22nd April costs £460. Alternatively, a week’s stay for four in Barn Cottage complete with its own hot tub costs £1300 arriving on 15th April or £1200 arriving on 22nd April. (www.premiercottages.co.uk, 07879 641488) Up to two dogs are welcome in each cottage for £20 per dog.

 

Rhos Country Cottages near Snowdonia

Tucked away down a single farm track, Rhos Country Cottages offer complete seclusion with a beach and choice of golf courses and walks nearby. Snowdon Mountain Railway, the Italianate village of Portmeiron, the impressive Harlech and Caernarfon Castles and Zip World are also within a 30 minute drive.

Stay in dog-friendly Rhos Wen, a single story luxury cottage for six with no steps or stairs making it suitable for the less able where a week’s stay arriving 9th April is £900. Alternatively, a week for four in Rhos Country Cottage’s Rhos Ddu costs £850 arriving 16th April and a week arriving on 23rd April £640. (www.premiercottages.co.uk, 01758 720047)

Trelowarren, Cornwall

Trelowarren sits on 1,000 acres of woodland and farmland with a Cornish Iron Age Fogou, an award-winning restaurant with its own pizza oven and walled garden spa with heated outdoor pool plus a tennis court. Located on the Lizard Peninsula, Trelowarren is a complex of 18 stunning eco properties that’s close to 14 beaches.

A seven-night stay in Trelowarren’s Dr's Cottage for six guests is £1695 and in Chyreen for six is £1595, both arriving on 15th April. (www.premiercottages.co.uk, 01326 221224)