Self Catering Ireland

I wasn't looking for a month, but I did find that the cancellation terms for a given accommodation can be dependent on the platform offering it. I found a place in Dunfanaghy last year where on their private site they had no refunds while on booking.com, the same place had the usual full refund if cancelled with 30 days of arrival.

You might look at craigslist or similar for a month long let.

Prices in Ireland just aren't what they were just a few years ago. I guess it's the fault of all us dang tourists.

AirB&B shows a 2 br cottage 15min north of Cork with a 30 day cancel for Nov/Dec for $2200. No idea how many people you are or when you're looking. Not a stroll to a pub...

We are struggling to find reasonably priced self catering spots in Ireland for a month next winter...

Do you mean, like February of 2025? If so, I'm surprised you finding much at all that's bookable that far ahead. That far out, most paces are just unavailable period, it's too far in the future for them to bother with accepting bookings. You might have to wait a while to book something in Winter 2025.

Or do you mean, THIS winter – like, right now? (By the way, Happy New Year...)

I have always found plenty of easy-to-cancel options on booking dot com (for a slight increase in price, of course). Have you tried there?

We are going from Dec 10/24 to Jan 10/25....a christmas in Ireland is something we've wanted to do for a while. There seems to be lots available but pretty pricey. We are open to other places besides Cork, but that's an area we have not yet seen. This will be our fourth trip over and Happy New year to you as well! We will keep looking...can't book our flights yet, so have to be sure about that and wouldn't want to run out of options for stays!

I suspect that what you are seeing (at over 365 days ahead) are the relatively few places whose systems are set up to accept booking 12 or more months ahead. IME most hotel owners want nothing to do with people trying to reserve over a year in advance, and their systems simply show "fully booked" or they just don't show up in booking systems at all.

So I would not necessarily conclude that what you are seeing now for bookings that far ahead are representative of what will be available if you wait a bit. FWIW, right now for many small hotels and B&Bs, it's very much "off season" and they're simply closed - sometimes on vacation, maybe far away (I recall one hotel place was unreachable until Springtime, the owners were away in Thailand, and only started enabling bookings after they had returned from their own holidays in February). That's not to say you can't book anything now, but you may find that if you wait a few weeks or a month, you might see greater availability from which to choose.

Thank you, you could be right. I will keep looking really can't book til we secure our flights anyways.

https://www.dreamireland.com/home/faq.3.html

Christmas and New Year are regarded as peak holiday time for many self catering properties, so prices will be high...