It’s time to get excited folks: the first long weekend of 2025 is within sight.
It’s less than a month until Easter. The break officially kicks off on Good Friday, April 18, and winds up on Easter Monday, which falls on April 21 this year.
The prospect of four days of annual leave is enough to encourage most to start planning. If you’re hoping for a getaway - either at home or abroad - now’s the time to get your skates on and your plastic out.
Flights are filling up fast with remaining seats fetching higher prices as demand outstrips supply. The solution? Enjoy a break on home soil.
City dwellers can play tourist in their own towns - London certainly has enough to enthral - or use the long weekend to escape to the countryside instead.
While Christmas is focused firmly on family, Easter is a lower-stakes event you can spend with mates without ruffling any relative’s feathers and risking disinheritance. But who wants to be stuffed in a poky hotel room when you can spread your wings in a holiday rental built for big groups?
Picture it: a wooden deck, BBQ on the go, a hot tub bubbling away and plenty of walking routes to breathe in greedy lungfuls of the fresh spring air. Sounds like the makings of a legendary Easter break to us.
Packing your bags already? Hold your horses and secure the holiday rental of dreams first. It won’t take long with our pick of the best of what’s still available. Prices listed below are per night basis.
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Tangle Belle
Break free of the M25 and head down to sunny (fingers crossed) Cornwall, where the storybook-esque Tangle Bell is waiting with open arms. The charming cottage, set amongst swaying trees and by a babbling brook, is made for groups of up to four adults, although well-behaved children and pets are welcome too.
The beautiful kitchen means that self-catered stays are possible, but if you want to leave your Easter feast in the hands of professionals, Unique Homestays can organise caterers too. Explore the estate, walk along the South West Coast Path, or take to the waters and learn to tame the waves with a surf lesson.
Buy now £1450.00, Unique Homestays
Dubh Lodge
A Scandi dream in the middle of the Perthshire Highlands, this beautiful lodge may embrace minimalism from the pictures but is full of light and warmth. The cedar wood-clad lodge chimes with its natural surroundings, while inside it’s bright and modern.
Dubh can sleep up to eight people in four bedrooms, and there are four en-suite bathrooms too. The wide outside deck has seating for sundowners and a swing that kids will run to. There’s also a gas BBQ to make use of and a quaint pub within walking distance.
Buy now £4375.00, Luxury Cottages
Alder Grand Suite
Offering a best-of-both-world scenario comes this suite in a holiday home which sits on a private estate that boasts an indoor swimming pool, a spa, and a fitness suite to work off all those chocolate Easter eggs.
The lakeside space has modern vintage charm with three beds and three baths with a light airy living room that turns into a cosy nook come sundown when you fire up the log burner. A kitchenette allows you to make quick meals and snacks while in good weather, the outdoor patio turns into an additional lounging space with sofas, sun loungers and a six-seater dining table.
Buy now £4500.00, Luxury Cottages
Mole Cottage
Make your cottage in the country fantasies come true. Mole Cottage in the charming Suffolk town of Orford is a home-from-home with a comfy lounge complete with a fireplace; a bright, fully stocked kitchen and a sweet little garden for outdoor dining should the weather play in your favour.
The kitchen has everything you need to make and eat meals, but head to the nearby Pump Bakery to pick up breakfast bits. You’re not far from Orford Ness Nature Reserve either, creating a fun setting for Easter egg hunts.
Buy now £287.00, Airbnb
Ancient Lights
If you want to be any closer to the sea, you’d be sleeping in the waves themselves. The Ancient Lights rental sits right on Broadstairs Pier and is perfectly placed to explore the town and the wider Kentish coast.
The open-plan holiday home has a gleaming kitchen in which to make an Easter feast, three bedrooms (including one with a bunk for kids) and two bathrooms so everyone can get ready reasonably quickly for the weekend’s adventures.
No wheels? Broadstairs station is a short stroll away, from where you catch trains back to London’s King’s Cross or Cannon Street stations, taking around two hours.
Buy now £409.00, Airbnb
Walltree House
We challenge you to not sing Blur’s Country House on repeat when at the lovely Walltree House. The grand country manor has four bedrooms, each with a king-size bed and one squeezing in two singles as well. The whole-house rental is surrounded by gardens for Insta-worthy picnics while table tennis is set up on one patio - kids will adore it.
Adrenaline junkies won’t want to leave: you’re only a 20 minutes drive from Silverstone and there’s an airfield offering skydiving next door.
Buy now £655.00, Airbnb
