Cottages.com — Pet-Friendly UK Self-Catering
Cottages.com is Awaze's UK self-catering brand: 29,000+ cottages, 11,000+ dog-friendly, with roughly half offering free pet stays.
3.8 / 5
Recommended with caveats
Strengths
- 11,000+ dog-friendly properties — second only to Sykes in UK self-catering scale
- Nearly half of pet-friendly cottages let dogs stay free of charge
- Dedicated dog-friendly collection page with practical amenity highlights (welcome packs, fenced gardens, dog wash stations)
Watch outs
- Customer-service responsiveness is a recurring complaint across aggregated reviews
- Pet-friendly is a binary owner opt-in, not a graded standard — variance is large
- Pet welcome amenities are advertised at the collection level but discretionary per property
- Parent group Awaze (since 2018, Platinum Equity)
- UK inventory (total) 29,000+ self-catering properties
- Dog-friendly inventory 11,000+ properties
- Free pet-stay subset ~6,000 properties (~50%)
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By Editorial team1 min read
- Parent group
- Awaze (since 2018, Platinum Equity)
- UK inventory (total)
- 29,000+ self-catering properties
- Dog-friendly inventory
- 11,000+ properties
- Free pet-stay subset
- ~6,000 properties (~50%)
- Max pets per booking
- Property-specific (1–3+ typical)
- Booking deposit
- £25
- Sister brands
- Hoseasons, Novasol, James Villas