Room to Be Together
One of the joys of staying in a large holiday house is having somewhere everyone can actually gather.
No splitting the group between different hotel tables. No squeezing twelve people into a sitting room designed for six. And no discovering that the only place everyone fits is standing around the kitchen island.
A proper big house gives you generous living spaces, large dining rooms and kitchens designed for groups. Everyone can sit around the table for a long dinner, gather for drinks before heading out, or settle down together for a film.
That’s when a group holiday starts to feel like a genuine house party — in the nicest possible sense.
And Room to Escape!
Here’s the bit nobody puts in the family WhatsApp group.
Sometimes, you need to get away from them.
Large houses often have several reception rooms, quiet corners, extensive gardens and spacious bedrooms. While half the group is getting increasingly competitive over a board game, somebody else can curl up with a book. Children can watch a film while the adults linger over dinner. Early risers can make coffee without waking the entire household.
You can be together without having to do everything together.
And that makes a surprisingly big difference.
Space for the Things You Want to Do
Extra space also gives you possibilities that simply don't exist in a hotel.
You might organise a private chef for a special dinner, bring in a yoga instructor, set up a craft table for the afternoon or spend a gloriously lazy evening around the fire.
Outside, large gardens and grounds give children room to run, dogs room to explore and adults somewhere to sit with a coffee — or something stronger — while enjoying the Wye Valley countryside.
One House, One Proper Get-Together
Perhaps the greatest luxury is simply having everyone under one roof.
Big House Holiday Lets has a collection of large holiday houses across the Wye Valley, Forest of Dean, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, sleeping groups of family and friends in beautiful surroundings.
You can eat together, laugh together and make the most of having everyone in one place.
Then, when you've all had quite enough of each other for an hour, you can disappear into another room.
Now that's luxury.
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