Volcano’s hottest hotel
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up to ten, has been reduced from £2,326 to £1,163 per week. See leboat.co.uk.
Or if there is just two of you, then a traditional canal boat such as Sir Ironside on the Shropshire Union Canal, with all its pretty bridges, is available for £937, rather than £1,249. See waterwaysholidays.com.
Sweet home Cottages in Cornwall
Our own cottage holiday industry will be showing across-the-board price drops in September too.
Tumrose Cottage and Higher Tumrose on a 25-acre mixed farm at Blisland, North Cornwall, are ideal for walkers, birdwatchers and peace seekers. UNIVERSAL Orlando Resort has opened a 600-room Aventura hotel right next to Volcano Bay water park. Rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows to take in views across all three of its theme parks. Guests also get exclusives including They are located just five minutes from Bodmin Moor, where a lot of the cottage scenes from Poldark were filmed, and nine minutes from the coast and the traditional fishing village of Port Isaac. Tumrose, which sleeps four, drops 25 per cent in price to £592 a week in September, while Higher Tumrose, which sleeps seven, drops by a similar chunk to £903. See helpfulholidays.co.uk.
Villa thriller Europe self-catering
Late season reductions apply to the European villa and cottage rental business too.
If you would prefer to take your car and you have a limited budget then you can get really good deals in the cottage resort of Les Cottages de Valjoly in northern France. This early park admission to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The tech-savvy rooms have tablets for ordering pizza and controlling the room temperature. Rooms start from £92 a night and sleep up to four. place is in the heart of the Avesnois National Park on the Franco-belgian border, two hours from Calais. It has a whole heap of watersports on the lake as well as three swimming pools – two of which are indoors. A week’s stay in a studio cottage sleeping two costs from £86 total – a massive reduction from the peak price of £638. See summerfrance.co.uk. Or if you would prefer to fly with family and friends to a villa with pool where warmth is guaranteed, then Sicily is a very good bet. Here the Casa Maoma, which sleeps eight, is set in the heart of the wine-growing area of Menfi with a large veranda with views over olive groves. Normally it would cost £1,714 a week but in September that drops to £1,371. See wishsicily.com.
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