CORUS hotels, with its choice of country manors, coaching inns and secluded retreats, has availability at a number of its hotels across the UK, with prices starting from £24 per person per night.

For example, the Beauchief Hotel, Sheffield, a traditional hotel providing a comfortable leisure retreat within landscaped grounds, is offering two nights bed and breakfast accommodation, based on two adults sharing a twin or double room for £24 per person per night .

You can get an upgrade to include dinner for just £18 per person per night. The offer is valid until June 5, 2005.

Another example is the Corus Hotel Romsey. This is a characteristic hotel with a distinctive gabled, thatched roof where you can have two nights bed and breakfast accommodation, based on two adults sharing a twin or double room, for £29 per person per night, offer valid until June 5, 2005. Other destinations are available. Call 0845 300 2000 for further information. quoting Most of May. All packages are subject to availability.

CLASSIC Cottages are offering one week's stay at The Watch House, just outside of Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the World Heritage area known as the Jurassic Coast, at the reduced rate of £407. 25. The former coastguard's cottage is close to the sea and sleeps six, plus one cot. It is available for this price for the week starting May 23. Visit www.classic.co.uk

FARM and Cottage Holidays are offering Robin's Nest, South Forda Lodges, Cornwall, for £150 a week - a saving of £55 a week - for any week between now and May 27. The Scandinavian-style wooden lodge with a balcony all round sleeps two and is in the eight acre South Forda Park, near Bude, which has a river flowing through the grounds. No pets. Visit www.farmcott.co.uk

Treven Farmhouse, Cornwall, is available for rent throughout May for £200 a week. The ground floor annexe to a farmhouse, which lies six miles south east of Tintagel, sleeps up to four people in two bedrooms. Local attractions include Trethorne Leisure Park, Launceston Steam Railway and Jamaica Inn and there are beaches close by. No pets. n Visit www.farmcott.co.uk