Guides
Booking a big house, worked through
The questions that come up every time someone organises a week or a weekend for a big group, answered from the data on this site and from doing it more times than we would like.
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Large group accommodation in Yorkshire
Yorkshire has 25 houses sleeping ten or more on this site, split between the Dales and the Moors, with the coast and the Wolds reachable from both. Here is how the areas differ and which one your group wants.
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Large lodges for groups
A lodge means two different things in Britain: a Victorian sporting house at the head of a glen, or a timber cabin with a hot tub on a holiday park. Both can take a big group. Here is how to tell them apart and where the real ones are.
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Family reunion accommodation: one house for the whole family
A family reunion is the hardest group to house: a 2 year old and an 82 year old, four couples who want a door that shuts, and someone who has to drive from Aberdeen. Here is what to look for.
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Christmas breaks for large groups
Twelve to thirty people, one roof, one turkey. Here is how the people who do it every year actually book it, and what goes wrong when they leave it late.
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Cheap large group accommodation: the per-head maths
A house for 12 at £1,500 a week is £125 each for seven nights, less than two nights in a budget hotel. The trick is knowing where the cheap weeks are and what you give up to get them.
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