The problem with booking a block of hotel rooms for sixteen people is that everyone disperses at eleven and the night ends. In a house, the night ends when the group decides it ends. The Brambles Retreat is hired as a whole property. Eight bedrooms, every single one en suite, so nobody is sharing a bathroom with eleven other people and nobody ends up on a pull-out bed feeling like the afterthought. There's a private bar you stock yourselves at supermarket prices rather than bar prices, which is usually the single biggest saving on the weekend, and a barman available if you'd rather nobody in the group is on duty. The dining room seats sixteen at one table. That's where the night actually happens. Two hot tubs looking out at the Mournes on one side and the sea on the other, a BBQ area, and a garden that will take a marquee if you're doing something bigger.
£900 per night at weekends for the whole property, which is £56 each with sixteen sharing. £700 midweek, or £44 each. You pay for the house, not per person, so the price doesn't change when two people drop out three weeks before — and it usually compares well once you've counted a city-centre room plus taxis plus a restaurant deposit plus drinks at bar prices. Sixteen in beds, four more on airbeds, and day visitors welcome, so a Saturday gathering of twenty-five works with sixteen staying over. Newcastle is fifteen minutes away for the seaweed baths, restaurants and a night out if you want one. Murlough Beach for the morning walk and the group photo. Royal County Down for the golfers. The Mournes start at the end of the drive. Dog friendly with a secure garden. Fully licensed. Free parking. A refundable security deposit applies, as standard for whole-house rentals, and we do ask for reasonable consideration of neighbours late at night — this is a rural setting rather than a city block. Tell us your dates, your numbers and roughly what kind of weekend you're planning.
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