Log cabins in Britain offer fun-packed family holidays. Alpine Grove near the Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park, Somerset, is available between July 20 and 31. It sleeps up to five, is set in woodland where pheasants and roe deer roam, with use of a pool and a giant trampoline and costs £700 a week.

Sharing a holiday home with friends/family is a fantastic idea to keep holiday costs down. Armistead Place is a spacious house in a tree-lined lane in Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, a short walk from open countryside and from the pleasant market town of Settle.It sleeps eight in four bedrooms and costs £820 a week from now until July 24. Heath Lodge is a new house backing on to woodland in Errogie, about two miles from the eastern shore of Loch Ness, and a perfect base for walking, boating and touring. It also sleeps eight in four bedrooms and is available from this and the following Saturday for £692 a week.

Fancy your summer hols in a yurt for a change? This genuine Mongolian yurt sits on a wooden floor covered with rugs in a secluded field near Helston, Cornwall, and is 19ft across with standing room inside. It sleeps up to five and costs £270 for a week until July 11.