New CoolStays This Week - 18th September 2015
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18th September 2015An elegant farmhouse that sleeps 18 near Hay-on-Wye; a beautifully converted vicarage in Pembrokeshire, now a boutique B&B; a chic cottage crash pad in Whitstable; a cool Cornish house right on the beach; a budget cool Croatian villa and a fabulous boutique hotel in Paris.
Go Late Summer Glamping with CoolStays
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11th September 2015Make the most of the sparkling sunshine with some late summer glamping. Cosy up in futuristic domes with rocket stoves, lounge in luxury safari tents roll top baths, spot wildlife from vintage shepherds huts. Long live the great British summer......
Book Now for Summer 2016 - CoolStays 10 Most Popular European Villas
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8th September 2015Get super organised and find your dream villa for next summer now! Here are 10 of our most popular villas - All CoolStays favourites and booking for summer 2016 already.
New CoolStays This Week - 1st September 2015
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1st September 2015Just Landed - Cool urban escapes and rural retreats. Luxury loft living in Paris, a boutique hotel in Barcelona, a cool luxury villa in Majorca, a barn conversion in Hebden Bridge, and a chic country cottage.
10 Amazing Places to Stay with August Bank Holiday Availability
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21st August 2015The August Bank Holiday weekend is just around the corner, and there are still some amazing CoolStays that are available for the long weekend or the whole week.
CoolStays Gives You 6 of the Best in Suffolk
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18th August 2015Tucked away in East Anglia, Suffolk is largely rural with picturesque towns and villages, and a stunning coastline. Perfect for family break, group holiday or just for two, CoolStays has a great selection of properties in Suffolk for you to choose from. A stylish townhouse in Southwold, a charming timber framed gig house, a converted fisherman's cottage right on the beach, a contemporary house on the edge of a nature reserve, a Gothic style hall and an off-grid fairytale cottage in a secluded woodland
Win a 2 night Glamping Break with Jamie Magazine
Competition Time
13th August 2015The last heady days of summer are the perfect time to enjoy a glamping trip. We've teamed up with Jamie Magazine to offer you a chance to win a 2 night stay in a vintage shepherd’s hut in stunning Elmley Nature Reserve, in Kent.
New CoolStays This Week - 5th August 2015
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5th August 2015Take your pick from a grand Cumbrian Hall, a luxury Lakes cottage, a chic boutique hotel in Paris, a stunning historic chateau in France, a vintage gypsy caravan in Suffolk, and a stylish converted barn in Dorset.
Top 10 CoolStays for Design Lovers
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23rd July 2015These CoolStays are all about great design. They are one-of-a-kind labours of love, with striking interiors offering you a truly distinctive place to stay. A trio of villas with fantastic interiors; a sumptuous apartment in Edinburgh; a selection of lovingly restored cottages; an eco-lodge in Sussex; a Trullo in Puglia with a retro theme; and a striking B&B in Hay-on-Wye, mixing contemporary and vintage furnishing.
Last Minute August 2015 Availability
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22nd July 2015It's not too late to get away to a CoolStay this summer! Here's some highlights of properties with last minute availability, during August. In the UK, take your pick from some stunning Cornish properties, cool woodland cabins, a boutique B&B, an off-grid cottage or an architect-designed eco house. Also some amazing escapes in Europe - A scandi style Spanish retreat, farmhouse in Provence, swanky Majorcan villa and glamping near Barcelona. Plus many more...
Top 10 Budget CoolStays
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8th July 2015Looking for somewhere to stay that is easy on the eye and on your bank balance? Well take a look at this lovely lot of budget beauties. A renovated olive mill, uber cool hotel room cubes, a Spanish cave house, stylish townhouses, a Scottish renovated barn, vintage shepherds huts, a South African boutique B&B and a cool cottage.
Top 10 Quirky Places in the UK this Summer
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9th July 2015A selection of wonderfully unique places to stay in the UK. Take your pick from bohemian gypsy caravans, a refurbished railway carriage, a converted coachhouse hideaway, an award winning eco-dome, a tipi, a scandi style treehouse and some quirky cottages.
In Pictures: Instamission Elmley Nature Reserve
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23rd July 2015Writer & our guest blogger Alice Tate had the chance to stay at Elmley Nature Reserve in one of their gorgeous shepherd's huts. Just an hour from London on the Isle of Sheppey, this is the only nature reserve in the UK you can actually stay on. Here's what she saw.
New CoolStays This Week - 23rd June 2015
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23rd June 2015Just Landed - A beautiful Georgian home in rural Norfolk, boutique Dutch hotel with uber-cool sleeping cubes, French Chateau just 5 minutes from Bergerac, boutique glamping tents in a protected Suffolk wildlife park and a villa right on the banks of the Dordogne, complete with private jetty and boats.
Top 10 Eco Chic Retreats
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18th June 2015If you want to choose a greener place to stay, then look no further than than our top 10 CoolStays with serious eco credentials. We give you award winning eco lodges; luxury eco cottages in Sussex and Cornwall; a Cotswold house, renovated using sustainable materials and a Swedish eco-hotel where architect designed rooms are built high into the forest canopy.
New CoolStays this week - 16th June 2015
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16th June 2015Just landed... Log cabins in Norfolk forest, a fairytale French chateau, glamping in Catalonia or Wales, sea-view stays in Devon or the Isle of Skye, and romantic boltholes in Greece or Devon.
5 Cool Chateaux with Big Summer Savings
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5th June 2015Ever wanted to stay in a French chateau? Well, our friends at Oliver's Travels are offering some big savings at 5 amazing places this summer. Perfect for big groups, special occasions or simply indulging your inner aristocrat. From the Loire Valley to the Dordogne and dating back to the 14th century, they are all steeped in history. And with up to 35% off 7 day stays, you can play Lord and Lady of the Manor for a week here and still have enough change in your pocket to bring home a few bottles of red.
New CoolStays This Week 2nd June 2015
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2nd June 2015Just Landed - A quartet of dreamy coastal cottages; a peaceful forest sanctuary in Hampshire, a unique, chic eco B&B in Sussex, and a historical Riad in Marrakech. Think sunny thoughts! Here is this weeks' latest batch of CoolStays.
Top 10 UK CoolStays with a View
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29th May 2015Wake up to stunning scenes; here are the CoolStays top 10 properties with panoramic views in the UK. From highlands to islands, seascapes to fells, imagine these being the view from your porridge bowl........
New CoolStays This Week 26th May
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26th May 2015Just Landed! A funked up manor house in Devon; a trio of boutique coastal cottages; a luxury eco lodge on the Isle of Skye and a unique hotel concept in a Tuscan estate.