VACATIONERS --YOU’VE ARRIVED!
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Welcome to GREAT COTTAGES. Everyone wants to find just the right vacation rental accommodation for themselves. Whether looking for a cottage by a lake, or a perfect getaway at a bed and breakfast, inn or lodge you’ve found the most “accommodating” site on the internet to help you locate your vacation home. The number one fear for someone going on vacation is arriving at their cottage, B&B or lodge and finding out it isn’t what they expected or was advertised to be. Tour guide books can be outdated; 4-5 line ads in papers can take creative license. A picture is worth a thousand words and GREAT COTTAGES gives you the ultimate opportunity to “Look Before You Book” by providing multiple pictures of the outside and inside of every property listed on our site. In many cases there is also a virtual tour accompanying the digital photos. I want to know what the bathroom and kitchen look like. I want to know the bed is indeed queen size! When on holiday, the bed and the accommodation have to “fit” you. You can immediately enter the pages of the featured properties scrolling across the top of our main page. Click on “View All Properties” where a map will link you to listings throughout Alberta, B.C., Ontario. Each featured area where we have listings, gives you a description of the area you will be visiting and gives you key information about the area, weather and events as well as where you can shop and dine. GREAT COTTAGES prides itself in not only acting as the virtual advertising medium for our owners, but as an advocate of tourism for the areas we are represented in. We are proud of our vacation communities and want to promote them to the holiday seeking public. We showcase what these areas have to offer, not only in accommodation but facilities, sites and events! We go out of our way on our site and in our day to day business practice to actively promote tourism.

* Remember we are NOT a property management agent for our owner’s properties. We DO NOT book their rentals or have privy to their booking schedules. That is a bonus to YOU because you have the opportunity to deal directly with the owners!

For security purposes and the protection of our owners, addresses and vacation calendars are not available on the site. We do try to further accommodate your needs by providing Last Minute and New Listings buttons where you can click to see our newest listings and possible cancellation spot availability.

Everyone has specific vacation needs. GREAT COTTAGES has cabins, cottages, bed and breakfasts, inns or lodges that appeal to a myriad of economic and esthetic needs. You’ve arrived here at our front door so take the opportunity we afford you to “Look Before You Book” and find the perfect holiday fit for you! If you want to travel further than your own back door, don’t leave without clicking on International Destinations, USA, Whistler Vacations and Getaways which will lead you to unique properties that will provide a holiday you won’t soon forget!

Of course for some of you, a vacation just wouldn’t be complete without afternoon “Tee” time! Golfers you must click on www.greatgolfingcourses.com. This is the newest tourist directory specifically for golfers! We’ve only just begun, but our goal is to be the one stop shopping spot for everyone looking for a place to golf when they are away from home. If you have a golf course near you, let them know about this unique site so they can be found by holiday families coming to your area!

If you want to search faster, click our handy Site Map. Visit our Links for an array of interesting sites, products and services and information pertaining to cottage and recreational needs from Canada, U.S.A. and International locations spanning over 75 countries. Our Affiliates are also an excellent source to fill your cottage and recreational shopping needs.
While you’re shopping, don’t neglect to visit our newest endeavour COTTAGESHOWONLINE! We are very excited about this virtual Cottage Show which is open to you 24/7, 365 days a year, with no sore feet guaranteed! Here, we feature exhibitors offering unique products and services catering to the Cottage and Recreation Industry.
* If you’re wanting to buy, get in touch with our exhibitors . If you are a business selling a product or service that fits this Cottage Show format, get in touch with us by following the appropriate links.

If the dog days of summer are behind us and you are looking for a place of your own to permanently vacation, we also have Properties For Sale. If you didn’t want to leave your vacation spot and may want to settle in for a long winter, click our Winter/Off Season section. This button is populated closer to the end of the summer season.

Vacationers – You’ve Arrived! Sit down, relax, stay a while and discover all the information, services and amenities GREAT COTTAGES has to offer to you. We know you’ll find just the right answer to your vacation questions, and we hope to see you travel our way again real soon. Don’t forget, if you or anyone you know can benefit from the services we offer, don’t keep us a secret, let them know www.greatcottages.com and our growing group of unique URL’s would love to hear from them. But don’t just take our word for it! Click on Media Stories and find out what Travel Alberta, Cottage Magazine and Canada’s premier home décor magazine Canadian House and Home have to say about us. We’ve been featured in all these high profile publications!

Thank you for visiting GREAT COTTAGES!