Cottages updated today Thursday 17 May 2012
Located in the south west of Dorset in the West Country in England, Lyme Regis is a beach seaside holiday resort based around a famous fishing port that includes Cobb harbour, a walkway out into the sea that was made famous in the film of John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons.
Lyme Regis has many comfortable self catering holiday cottages to offer, surrounded by epic fossil lined coastlines with roaring sea coast, and rural Thomas Hardy countryside with rental cottages nestling on the edges of traditional English villages. Lyme Regis is one of the many rural towns and villages in Dorset with dozens of traditional English villages with a pub and local shop, surrounded by rolling hills, ancient hedgerows and romantic woodland.
Self catering holidays are a great way of discovering Lime Regis, because unlike hotels, guest houses, bed and breakfast, caravan parks, camping and organised holidays, you will find that holiday homes that are based in rental cottages give you great flexibility of choice about where to go for the day because you make food in your own kitchen, come and go with your own key, and return home late at night after spending a pleasant evening in the local inn or pub, and eating at a traditional restaurant. During the day you can play golf, bowling and horse riding.
Lyme Regis is well known for watersports in the spring, summer and autumn, with a choice of sailing, water skiing, swimming, windsurfing and fishing. Dorset is a great place for hiking, with lots of routes for walking holidays, and you will find plenty of quiet country roads to do cycle touring, just pack your panniers and pedal away! For adventurous holidaymakers the Heritage Coast footpaths stretch for miles to the East and West of Lyme Regis.
When you are booking your holiday cottage you must make sure that it has all the facilities you need, so you should check the number of bedrooms, and note how many adults and children you can sleep, whether the sitting room has a TV, video or DVD, whether there is an open log fire or coal fireplace, central heating, a bathroom and toilet (WC), a bath or show, and a separate dining room and garden. The kitchen should have a washing machine, tumble drier, fridge, freezer, microwave oven, and toaster, while you need to check if there is a heated swimming pool, and can you bring your pets - is it a dog friendly or pet friendly holiday cottage? Finally, does the cottage have full disabled access, so can you get a wheelchair into the rental home without going up steps.
You will find many rental family houses, sea front self catering apartments, holiday flats, self catering studios, rural country cottages and fully equipped holiday homes that are fully furnished. The town and country cottages and houses are an Ideal retreat or hide-away for a romantic weekend. Dorset has many rustic towns and villages that are a short car drive from Lyme Regis: