Christmas Party - House or holiday park

kmmr

Hi,

I'm looking for somewhere to host a Christmas party, and was hoping that the combined knowledge of MSE may be able to give me some ideas!

I was looking at renting a big cottage, but they are very expensive, and we really don't need anything too posh. The big ones seem to focus on very high quality surroundings that we just don't need. In the past we stayed a a great little park near battle - which was just little cabins, which weren't too expensive and I was hoping we could find something similar cheaply.

Location: 1 hour to the S, SW of London or up to 2 hours West of London.
Guests: 10-12 adults (5-6 couples). 4 of the families have small children, I think there are 6 children in total.

Ideally another big hall or perhaps one bigger cabin to have the actual party, which would need a full kitchen.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks!

flea72

When you say expensive, what exactly do you mean?

I would expect to pay similar prices at christmas, as during school summer holidays. So a 5-6 bed property would be minimum £1200 for a weekend

Fen1

YHA They do exclusive party bookings. Very reasonable.


http://www.yha.org.uk/places-to-stay/south-east

kmmr

It's only for 1 night. I think you can get B&B for about £70 a room, so about that per couple, maybe up to 10. So that means more like £500-600 for accommodation.

Is that far too optimistic!?

DigForVictory

Can you swap anything in exchange?
www.homelink.org.uk/‎
www.ukholidayswapshop.co.uk/‎
www.homebase-hols.com/‎
all at the top of Google. I do get you're looking for one Big House, but one big family may want to split the family up a bit?!

I'm guessing NT & Eng Heritage are too expensive - may be worth phoning properties you like the look of and asking if there's anything else comprable in the area?

kmmr

Sadly no - nothing to swap that anyone would want. I have a lovely west London 2 bed flat, but can't imagine anyone wants to swap a massive house for 1 night!

kmmr

YHA sounds like a great idea though. Exactly the kind of level we want - just clean basic rooms to stash the kids when necessary, and isolated would be great so we can let them loose without worrying too much.

flea72

kmmr wrote: »

It's only for 1 night. I think you can get B&B for about £70 a room, so about that per couple, maybe up to 10. So that means more like £500-600 for accommodation.

Is that far too optimistic!?

Very few rental accommodations do one night, so this might be your biggest problem, rather than price.

Yha does look your best bet, but unless you hire out the whole hostel you will have to share the communal areas (kitchen/sitting room) with all other guests

kmmr

We can do two nights I guess. I'm just slightly conscious of a few people who are on tighter budgets, but maybe some of us who can afford it can stay the two nights, and keep costs down for the others.