Excellent beach side holiday cottages can be surprisingly difficult to find. If you are dreaming of your next beach holiday and now want to find that ideal cottage rental, then Surfing Genie can help. With over 300 of the best beaches in the UK and Ireland and over 13,000 perfect self-catering holiday cottages ranging from small 2 bed apartments to barns sleeping 20, there’s something for everyone; whether it's for that perfect family beach vacation or for somewhere to house a large group of friends on a surfing road trip.

Finding a holiday Cottage on Surfing Genie

The beaches of the British Isles are some of the best in the world and one of the best ways to explore them is from a comfortable base right next to the coast. If you don’t have the luxury of living where you want to be exploring, then Surfing Genie can help.

The simplest way to use Surfing Genie is to search the database of Beaches and choose your dream destination (beach) first. Then click on the ‘View Local Self Catering Cottages’ link, which will take you to all the cottages and apartments closest to that beach.

Search for beaches here. 

Counties of the UK and Ireland

Alternatively you can search all 13,000 properties for a cottage, barn conversion or apartment that meets what you are looking for.

Search the entire database here. 

There are so many perfect beaches around the UK and Ireland why not just pick a county in which to base yourself and explore the coast from there.

Start your search for beach side cottages in each county with the links below:

Counties of England

West Cornwall   Newquay   North Cornwall   South Cornwall   North Devon   

South Devon   Dorset   Isle of Wight   West Sussex   East Sussex   Kent   Essex   

Suffolk   Norfolk   Lincolnshire   Yorkshire   Northumberland   Durham   Lancashire   

Cumbria   

Counties of Scotland

Berwickshire & East Lothian   Fife & Perthshire   Angus   Kincardineshire

Aberdeenshire   Banffshire   Moray & Nairnshire   Caithness   Sutherland

Ross   Cromarty   Inverness-shire   North & South Uist   Argyll   Ayrshire

Wigtonshire  

Isle of Man

Isle of Man  

Channel Islands

Guernsey   Jersey  

Counties of Wales

Glamorgan   Monmouthshire   Carmarthenshire   Pembrokeshire   Cardiganshire   

Merionethshire   Caernarvonshire   Anglesey   Denbighshire & Flintshire

Couties of Northern Ireland

Londonderry   Antrim   Down

Counties of Ireland

Louth   Dublin   Wicklow   Wexford   Waterford   Cork   Kerry   Clare   Galway   Mayo  

Sligo   Leitrim   Donegal