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Enjoy Easter in an eggstravagant holiday cottage!

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Easter is a fantastic time of year. Not only do you get to eat as much chocolate as you can handle, it’s also springtime. Taking an Easter break in one of our lovely holiday cottages is the perfect way to spend that time.

Spring is the best time of year as far as we’re concerned, especially this year. After a long, wet winter, nature is throwing off the gloom, drying the land and waking up once more. The grass is growing, trees are coming into leaf, flowers are blooming and the animals are getting ready for the year ahead.

What better time to enjoy the fantastic British countryside?

Whether you’re planning for the Easter bank holiday, the school break or both, we have a cottage for you. We have holiday cottages by the sea, in the depths of the countryside, near lively towns and villages. We have romantic cottages for two, or large family-sized cottages so the kids can come too.

Holidaycottages.net always has the widest range of holiday accommodation. From quaint to contemporary, character to colossal, it’s all here and all priced affordably.

Easter holidays are about taking a break from work and school, sitting back and enjoying what the world has to offer. It’s about spending time with the ones you love and starting the new year as you mean to go on. What better way to do that than with an Easter break in a holiday cottage?

Easter is also a time of year when attractions hold their own Easter events. Easter egg hunts, festivals, fayres, fetes, exhibitions and all sorts of organised activities are held over Easter. If you’re up for something a little more free form, then a lovely cottage is a great base of operations for an Easter break of your own making.

Look out for local events in the place you’re staying as there is bound to be something going on!

Enjoy Snowdonia, visit Cornwall, relax by the lakes, explore East Anglia, hike Hadrian’s Wall, visit the Giant’s Causeway or do whatever feels right. Just know that there are hundreds of high quality holiday cottages here to help.

Don’t pay excessive holiday charges because it’s a school holiday. Don’t pay over the top for hotels because they have a captive audience. Don’t spend hours in an airport waiting for flights. Book an Easter holiday cottage with Holidaycottages.net and begin your holiday right away!

Embrace spring with a weekend break!

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After what seems like an eternity of wind, rain and perpetual greyness, spring has finally sprung. The sun is out, the puddles are gone, floods are receding and the world is righting itself once more.

We had four months of rain, storms, flooding and low pressure. We had a wet Christmas, a damp New Year and a somewhat soggy beginning to 2014. Now all that is over and it’s time to move on. What better time to move on to Spring than taking a break from work?

Holidaycottages.net has a huge selection of high quality holiday cottages across the UK and Ireland that would fit the bill perfectly!

Spring breaks

While spring is a traditionally busy time of year for holiday rentals, there are some vacancies left if you’re in the mood for a change of scenery.

We have a wide range of holiday cottages available, in all areas of the country. Whether it’s a quaint historical cottage, a romantic getaway for two or somewhere for all the family, we’re bound to have something here!

We have cottages by the beach, cottages in the country, pet-friendly cottages, cottages with sea views, cottages near cities and even cottages with their own tennis courts. Whatever kind of property you’re looking for, we’re bound to have it here!

Book ahead for Easter

Once spring is well underway, Easter is only round the corner. If that isn’t a great excuse for a break from everything, we don’t know what is!

Why queue for hours at the airport if you can simply drive to a lovely holiday cottage? Why travel across the world when you can travel a couple of hours for the same effect? Why pay the expense of a foreign holiday when you can holiday at home for less?

With the rules on taking kids out of school during term time, booking your holiday cottage early is more important than ever. More and more people are choosing to holiday at home, meaning more people wanting quality accommodation for a well-deserved break.

So, if you see something on Holidaycottages.net that you like and it’s available, book it! You never know when someone else will have the same idea. Feel free to browse our huge collection of holiday cottages. All offer fantastic value, great accommodation and everything you need to kick off spring in style!

Top tips for advertising a holiday cottage

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Here on Holidaycottages.net, we want everyone to find exactly what they are looking for. We want guests to find that perfect holiday cottage and our advertisers to find a simple, cost-effective medium for advertising their properties.

Formatting the advert is an art form that every business could benefit from learning. It is a fundamental part of running a business in any industry. With that in mind, let’s discuss the anatomy of a good holiday cottage advert.

The headline

The headline of any piece of work is vital. It’s probably the most important few words you will write. It needs to describe what you’re offering in an attractive way and intrigue the reader enough to draw them in.

For example: “Holiday cottage in Cornwall for rent” isn’t going to do much for your occupancy rate is it?

However, “Fantastic seaside getaway with ocean view minutes from Fistral Beach” would do much better.

The first paragraph

The first paragraph of your holiday cottage advert has to continue the good work you began with the headline. Here you will need to highlight the main features of your holiday let and make them as compelling and as exciting as possible.

It might help to make a list of the main selling points of your holiday property from a guest perspective and list them in this first paragraph. That way, your strongest pitch is within a couple of seconds reading time where it will have the most impact.

Images

A picture paints a thousand words. A well-used quotation, but for good reason. Even the best headline and description in the world doesn’t come close to making a sale as good images.

Take some great quality pictures of your holiday cottage to really make an impact. Look at your cottage at different times of the day, assess when the light shows it at its best and take the pictures then. Use your list of selling points from your initial paragraph and take an image of each of them to include in your advert.

Take and use as many as your advertising medium will allow. They really are that powerful!

The remainder

The rest of your holiday cottage advert should be used to offer supplementary information and important details. You can expand on your selling features and move on to less important elements of your cottage.

It’s also here that you will add details like availability, seasonal information, local amenities, highlights and anything else you need your guest to know before making a booking.

Writing your holiday cottage advert will take time and effort, but it’s an investment not a cost. The better you make it, the more likely it is to convert readers into guests. Which is what we’re all here for, right?