The week’s best UK late breaks – 7/3/2014

UK late breaks

The daffs are out and Britain is looking beautiful once again. If you’ve got a few days or a week to spare, have a look at the week’s best UK late breaks selected by the YourHols team…

Talking of daffodils… Go aboard Daffodil, a brightly-painted 42ft long narrowboat, available from Waterways Holidays. Based at Linslade on the Grand Union Canal on the northern edge of the Chilterns, Daffodil sleeps two to four people in comfort.
During a week’s hire, you can enjoy the canal-side Globe Inn at Linslade (one of many canalside pubs), Stoke Bruerne’s Waterways Museum and the challenge of the Blisworth Tunnel before seeing the Northamptonshire countryside.
A week before Easter costs from £644, including a 10% discount for early booking, damage waiver, all diesel and gas, bed linen, use of buoyancy aids, initial tuition and car parking at the Linslade base. Short breaks from £437. See www.waterwaysholidays.com

Four nights for £99… Woolacombe Bay Holiday Parks in north Devon is offering four-night breaks starting Mondays 10, 17, 24 or 31 March, saving up to £100 off the brochure price. You’ll stay in a three-bedroom, extra-wide gold-standard caravan holiday home sleeping up to eight – so that works out at just £3.09 per person per night.
The price includes free on-site facilities including heated indoor pools, indoor play areas, cinema, tennis, pitch and putt golf and fishing, plus children’s clubs for all ages and nightly entertainment – cabaret, dancing and discos. Other facilities (payable) include a state-of-the-art surfing simulator, a challenging high ropes, 10-pin bowling, pottery painting and golf on a professional nine-hole course. See www.woolacombe.com/bp

Haven holiday park break from £99 per family… A three-night self-catering holiday to Cornwall staying at Perran Sands holiday park in Perranporth starts from £99 per family (saving £90). Price based on a family of six sharing Deluxe accommodation from March 28 and includes kids’ clubs and family entertainment.

Or, three nights in Sussex… Stay at the Combe Haven holiday park in Hastings from £129 per family (saving £90). Price based on a family of six sharing standard accommodation from April 4 and includes kids’ clubs and family entertainment. See www.haven.com

Touring holidays in Yorkshire… Haven are offering a four-night touring holiday to Yorkshire staying at the Blue Dolphin holiday park, near Filey, with prices from £28 per pitch (saving £28). Based on a family of six bringing their own touring caravan onto a electric pitch from April 28. See  www.haven.com

Save up to 25 per cent on spring cottage… Sykes Cottages has launched a spring sale, with savings of up to 25 per cent on hundreds of cottages for stays in April, May and June.

Discounts are available on holidays taken between 24 April 24 and May 24 and between May 30 to June 28 (which excludes school holidays. They include:

Dolwaenydd, Anglesey – the former farm building is now a stylish house with wood floors, four bedrooms, two bathrooms. Sleeping eight, a week in May is from £516 saving up to 25%.

Gatehouse Croft, Warwickshire – A recent renovation of Polesworth Abbey’s gatehouse, the cosy, character-filled cottage has a half-tester in the double bedroom, plus a twin to sleep four in total. The last week of April costs £429, saving £99.

Glen Bank, Cumbria – an 18th century four-bedroom farmhouse just outside Appleby-in-Westmorland. Sleeping up to nine, a week in June is from £585 saving up to 20%. See www.SykesCottages.co.uk

Springtime in the Lakes… From Sunday to Thursday until the end of March, the four-star Lakeside Hotel, above, on the banks of Windermere, is offering double rooms with dinner and breakfast for £198 per night (for two people) – a saving of £77. Guests are provided with a booklet of scenic walking routes – several direct from the door.
The privately-owned hotel enjoys a spectacular location, set in beautiful gardens full of spring colour which run down to the water’s edge at Newby Bridge. It has fabulous views across Lake Windermere to the wooded slopes opposite, plus a two AA-rosette restaurant and tranquil Aveda spa. Lake cruises leave from outside the door and the popular Aquarium of the Lakes is just opposite. See www.fihotels.com

Devon cottage for Easter down 20%… A thatched cottage for four on a former East Devon Quaker farm with 14th century origins has been reduced by 20% to £335 for Easter weeks from April 4 and 11. Tucked away in country lanes near Membury, Quakers has ancient oak beams and exposed stonework. Sitting out area too and seven acres to explore with shared use of a hot tub. Pets welcome. See www.helpfulholidays.com