Luxury cottages for Christmas breaks

’Tis the season for togetherness, for escaping the ordinary and finding joy in the stillness of winter. With your own home buried beneath wrapping paper, consider a family Christmas break to a place where the halls are already decked, the fires are laid and there’s even the option to hire a private chef to whip up the festive treats. Amongst our collection, there’s a Cotswolds townhouse surrounded by timber-framed pubs and independent boutiques, and a sleeps-10 hideaway in Ireland complete with a sauna and indoor pool. And importantly, no one need be left behind – our luxury dog-friendly Christmas breaks are sure to set tails wagging.

If it’s just the two of you, slip away to one of our romantic Christmas cottages. Here, mornings are made for slow starts and breakfast in bed cocooned in linens; afternoons for meandering through frosted fields or along coastal paths. Later, you might curl up on a marshmallow-soft sofa by the fire to watch Christmas classics, or sink into a steaming hot tub as robins flit across the garden. Each of our homes sits in an extraordinary location – from a luxury Christmas cottage in Cornwall with soul-stirring views over Whitsand Bay, to a cabin on the edge of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park, complete with an indoor and outdoor woodburner.