TV in holiday cottage

jady1407

Booked a holiday cottage but there is no TV. Also no internet :-) Anybody  know if there is a way around this? If I take our small TV , do one of those Digital TV Indoor Antenna things work? Or can I use my phone in connection with something ?

Neil_Jones

It could probably be argued you don't go on holiday to watch TV.  But anyway...

There is no such thing as a digital aerial.  Indoor aerials can and do work depending on where you are and where they get set up, but otherwise take your phone and use mobile data if you have anything you really need to watch.

tacpot12

An indoor TV aerial might work, but in my experience the holiday cottages that don't provide a TV don't do so because the owner knows that it is impossible to get a good TV signal at the cottage. So rather than have people complain about the TV reception at the time, they remove the TV and advertise that the cottage is Good for getting away from it all....

With the right phone, and right TV, and a good 3G/4G signal you might be able to stream some TV programs, but I don't know much about what you need for that. Hopefully someone else will be able to advise. 

Your best option might be to take a DVD player and any boxed sets you want to watch. We used to regularly rent a holiday property that had no DVD player, so we used to take our own with us. It cost us £10 from a charity shop because it had no remote control! 

jady1407

tacpot12 said:

An indoor TV aerial might work, but in my experience the holiday cottages that don't provide a TV don't do so because the owner knows that it is impossible to get a good TV signal at the cottage. So rather than have people complain about the TV reception at the time, they remove the TV and advertise that the cottage is Good for getting away from it all....

With the right phone, and right TV, and a good 3G/4G signal you might be able to stream some TV programs, but I don't know much about what you need for that. Hopefully someone else will be able to advise. 

Your best option might be to take a DVD player and any boxed sets you want to watch. We used to regularly rent a holiday property that had no DVD player, so we used to take our own with us. It cost us £10 from a charity shop because it had no remote control! 

Thank you for your help. Will probably take the DVD player with us too. With kids it helps to have some form of entertainment in the evenings, there are only so many board games you can play!

macman

Ask the owner if there is any signal available.

matelodave

Our last holiday let had no TV or mobile phone service - lovely. We found other things to do with the kids rather than letting the TV or mobile phone keep them entertained.

ImmanuelReynolds

You could use phone to watch movies or if you have any tablets then that will work as a TV

superbigal

SkyGo which is also free data wise if you have Sky Internet.

jimbo6977

Small tv and portable satellite dish (Aldi does these sometimes)? 

If in a valley might be a waste of time. 

flashg67

BBC Iplayer etc allow you to download some stuff to your phone/tablet before you go to watch off line, as does Amazon Prime & netflix if you subscribe

johnman4567

use tablet that work as tv