It's Christmas, which means the Hollywood rom-com starring Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Jack Black and Kate Winslet, The Holiday, is currently doing the rounds. And it's inevitable that thousands of people will be watching Cameron and Kate's characters - Amanda Woods and Iris - swap houses and lives for the season to escape their own. If you've not seen the film, Iris goes to LA to stay in a mansion whereas Amanda ends up in the most adorable, quinessentially British, stone cottage in rural England.
But did you know you can actually live out your own real-life 'The Holiday' and stay in the house that became the inspiration for the fictional Rosehill Cottage and is an exact replica - from the outside - of the film's humble rural abode? It's currently listed on AirBnb.
Honeysuckle Cottage in Holmbury Saint Mary, Surrey, is owned by Jon Bromley and his wife Cressida and is being let to members of the public and keen movie buffs for an average of £295 a night - according to the Daily Record.
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The pair bought the home in 2019 for £625,000 but were blissfully unaware of its fame until they saw news of the sale in a property magazine. Now they have fans of the film turned up outside their home to take photos and pose.
Since putting it up on AirBnB, Jon explains that bookings came in thick and fast.
He said: "I had bookings straight away. Our first guests were a few weeks ago for two nights. They were scientists from Cambridge and really enjoyed it."
The property is described on Airbnb as: "The quintessential English cottage! This charming, cosy cottage was the inspiration behind the design of Rosehill Cottage in the Hollywood blockbuster film ‘The Holiday’."
He added: "It's one of those getaways where you go and hide yourself somewhere in a little village. There's nothing here but a pub next door - no shops.
"I still live in the cottage but I have four lettings so far - Christmas, New Year and two in summer for weddings locally. I'm just really proud of it. It's a very lovely house and we're very lucky."
While it's not the exact location where the film was shot, researchers were so taken by the cottage itself, which the film's production designer Jon Hutman called the "cutest, smallest, most English cottage that we could find", that they recreated it entirely, brick by brick - from the picket fence, wooden gate, country garden and rural track - so that it was closer to the cast and crew in a London studio.
Booking availability for The Holiday cottage can be found on Airbnb here.
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