Self-catering winter breaks sale

Winter breaks

Blue Chip Holidays is offering savings of up to 20 per cent in their self-catering winter breaks sale.

Hundreds of four and five-star properties are discounted until December 21 in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset and the Isle of Wight. Three nights are also discounted by 10%.

Offers include: A week in one of the country’s most significant historic buildings, in Dartmouth. Merchants Rest, a Grade I listed, former 17th century merchant’s house, welcomes guests and their pets with its richly carved and moulded frieze, where cherubs’ heads peak out from twisting foliage, populated by musicians, soldiers and monsters’ heads.

Divided into two four-star platinum graded apartments, connected by a novel twisting newel oak staircase, the retreats can be booked from £373 for seven nights in November or December, saving £81.

Palmerston House on the Isle of Wight costs from £398 for a week. Built in 1863 Golden Hill Fort’s imposing fortified structure rises 60 meters above the North West coast of the Isle of Wight. The house is a luxurious duplex property for six and, as well as character features harking back to its time as part of the fort, has access to stunning landscaped rooftop gardens; the only ones of their kind on a Grade I listed building in the country.

For these and other properties see www.bluechipholidays.co.uk