Cheap Country Accomodation - any ideas?

[seanmlow]

Hiya-

I am looking to get away for a long weekend in Feb/March.

Does anyone know of a cheap pub/B and B anyone in the country? There is so much choice on the internet, but thought someone on here may have some recommendations.

Thanks

[seanmlow]

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[Quaywegirl]

I stayed here for a night while walking the Thames path http://www.fordsfarm.co.uk/. The weather ended up being a wash out so we spent a long leisurely lunch at a local pub, The Lord Nelson and the food was fantastic. Marlene the B&B owner drove us there and picked us up as we had arrived on foot. There's also a really beautiful water cress farm at the end of the road and plenty of other local walks.

It's about an hour bus ride from London on the OxfordTube.

[Ted Max]

Time was, a gentleman of the road required little more than some clean straw, an egg from the run and the cream off the top of the churn before moving on to reacquaint himself with Mrs Downdumplings' hospitality at Nether-cum-Nisdale. These days you're lucky if you get so much as a finger of stale pitta and the left over hummus to dip into.

I wish you luck, SeanMediumLow, in your search for cheap country accommodation, but I fear these days the road is a hard one, and the hens no longer lay soft boiled eggs at the end of it.

[Keef]

New forest is lovely for walking / cycling, and drinking beer!

[ian_b]

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[TheePope]

Have never found much cheap country accomodation, particularly if it's just for a weekend. I really like the look of lots of Landmark Trust places but am yet to stay in one. Not cheap but they might have last minute availability:

http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/

Otherwise the Sawdays book on English B&B's has some good reasonably price options.

http://www.sawdays.co.uk/accommodation/britain/

Don't use lastminute for anything, you'll end up in some godforsaken dive which looks ace in the pictures...