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" Hen party season&amp;#039;s just around the corner and the growing trend seems to be for a house share, home or away. The pros are numerous; you get a lot more for your money, total privacy (you can be as loud as you like), bring in your own booze and generally spend some quality time with you best mates. Cosmo&amp;#039;s tried and tested lots of amazing places, from cute country cottages to great big old mansions, so here&amp;#039;s our best of the best.  1.\u00A0Ivy Roost Cottage, New Forest: Ninety minutes&amp;#039; drive from London, this is the chocolate box, thatched-roof cottage\u00A0of your dreams. Five bedrooms, 12-seater dining table, cozy snug and a roof terrace. There&amp;#039;s even a hot tub.\u00A0 Three-night weekend from \u00A3850 (\u00A385pp based on 10 sharing).\u00A0Read Cosmo&amp;#039;s full review here.   2.\u00A0Oat Hill Farmhouse, Cotswolds: If you want to channel a\u00A0Kate Moss party\u00A0in the country (she has a cottage nearby),\u00A0Oat Hill\u00A0is for you. It&amp;#039;s enormous; EIGHT bedrooms (a mix of doubles and twins),\u00A016-seater dining table and seven (praise be) bathrooms. There&amp;#039;s also a games room outside, lots of stuff provided, like White Company toiletries and hairdryers, and a decent pub up the road. \u00A0From \u00A32533 for four nights (\u00A3158pp based on 16 sharing).\u00A0Read Cosmo&amp;#039;s full review here.  3.\u00A0Bella Vista, West Sussex: Chic beach house alert. Bella Vista\u00A0is right\u00A0on the pebble beach at Arundel (just south of Brighton) and\u00A0makes a perfect seaside weekend break with mates. The four double bedrooms are all en suite, floor-to-ceiling French windows open to\u00A0sea views and there&amp;#039;s loads of outside furniture for sunbathing. Local caterers can bring in food for \u00A325pp, so you don&amp;#039;t even\u00A0need to fork out for a posh restaurant or wash-up, hooray!\u00A0 From \u00A3300 per night low season (\u00A337.50pp based on eight sharing).\u00A0Read Cosmo&amp;#039;s full review here.  4.\u00A0Westgate Cottage, Norfolk: Three miles from Hunstanton, Westgate Cottage\u00A0is a countryside mega retreat, with five bedrooms, huge garden with barbecue area and tasteful kitchen and dining room. Two lounges, each with a TV, mean you won&amp;#039;t all be fighting for the remote and the fact\u00A0it&amp;#039;s a 10-minute walk from the dunes of Holme Beach or the excellent White Hart Pub, means this is multi-friend mini break heaven.\u00A0 Seven nights from \u00A31155 (\u00A3115pp based on 10 sharing).\u00A0Read Cosmo&amp;#039;s full review here.   5.\u00A0Citadines apartments, London: A share in London is waaaay too much money for most of us, which is why we were very happy to chance upon Citadines Apart&amp;#039;hotel\u00A0(see what they did there?). On Northumberland Avenue (just of Trafalgar Square no less) they&amp;#039;ve got everything from suites that sleep six to one-bed rooms, all stylish and stocked with linen, towels, robes, full-length mirrors, hairdryers and sleek little kitchens, too (a good\u00A0place to store your bubbly,\u00A0and make a brew the day after the night before). This is the best\u00A0place for a hen party to stay on a budget\u00A0in the capital we reckon. Two-bedroom premier duplex which sleeps six, including a sofa bed in the living room, costs from \u00A3320 per night, that&amp;#039;s just \u00A353 each. Cosmo&amp;#039;s full review here.\u00A0  6.\u00A0The Penthouse at Tregales, Cornwall: When someone says penthouse, you think of\u00A0steel and a city skyline, not\u00A0the wild Cornish coast, right?\u00A0But it&amp;#039;s this contrast that makes The Penthouse-at Tregales\u00A0so spectacular. A contemporary interior (Charles Eames leather chair, anyone?) juxtaposed with the rugged landscape of Polzeath. The open-plan lounge and kitchen is a well-designed space for sitting around chatting while (someone else, hopefully) prepares the food, which you can eat at the six-seater table or al fresco on the enormous terrace spanning the length of the penthouse. The three bedrooms (two en suite) are modern and immaculate and two have balcony access.\u00A0 From \u00A3650 per week (\u00A3108pp based on six people sharing) or you can have up to 16 people if you book neighbouring Darwin apartment too.\u00A0Cosmo&amp;#039;s full review here.\u00A0  7.\u00A0Only Apartments, Seville: There are plenty of pricey hotels in Seville, but the coolest option is an apartment. We fell for\u00A0Santamaria, a\u00A0three-bedroom flat in\u00A0the Barrios de Santa Cruz area, one of the oldest parts of the city close to loads of restaurants and bars. Accessed via an ornate wood door and Moroccan riad-style courtyard full of lush plants, the\u00A0interior is just as stylish. White sofas, spiral staircase, roof terrace an olive&amp;#039;s throw from the Cathedral\u00A0and full-length doors opening onto balconies\u00A0(no surprise to learn this flat is owned by a well-known Spanish interior designer!). From \u20AC175 per night (that&amp;#039;s \u20AC29pp based on six sharing).\u00A0Read Cosmo&amp;#039;s full review here.   8.\u00A0Cas Mal Ric, Mallorca: The most fun way to visit this Spanish island we reckon. Not only do you get a private pool at Cas Mal Ric, you also get a\u00A0barbecue area, tennis court *deep breath* big garden, five bedrooms,\u00A0four bathrooms and\u00A0a garden so big, you can chatter as loudly as you like and the only things\u00A0that will hear you are the roaming chickens. And it&amp;#039;s less than 30 minutes from the clubs and bars of Palma and Magaluf.\u00A0Cas Mal Ric starts from \u00A3996 to \u00A34302 (so from \u00A3249 per couple, sharing between four couples; or just \u00A399pp sharing between 10 friends).\u00A0Read Cosmo&amp;#039;s full review here.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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