Refer a Friend to Helpful Holidays to Receive £250 Cashback Each

Recommend a friend with a UK holiday property to us, and once they’re live, receive a £250 bonus per property (or such other amount communicated to you by Sykes Cottages Family Brands). T&C's apply - see below 

At Helpful Holidays, due to our fantastic record in attracting holidaymakers to our beautiful region, we are now looking to add more properties to our portfolio to meet demand.

If you know someone with a second home in Devon or Somerset, we would love them to get in touch with us. If you refer a friend to Helpful Holidays, we will pay you each £250 once their property goes live on our website!

With over 40 years’ experience, plus a team of local experts based in our office in Devon, we are confident that we are the best choice for holiday letting in the South West.

How to apply

Spread the word

Recommend Helpful Holidays to holiday property owners in the South West, and encourage them to contact us.

Let us know

Get in contact with us via phone or email:

Call: 01647 401799
Email: help@helpfulholidays.co.uk

You will need to let us know the following information about yourself:

Your name, phone number and email address.

We will also need the following information about the new owner you have referred us to:

Their name, phone number and email address.

Please confirm that you have been given consent by the property owner for us to get in touch with them about holiday letting with the Sykes Holiday Cottages Family.

You each earn £250

Once the new owner’s property has gone live on our Helpful Holidays website, we will pay you £250 each.

If you currently market and let a property with any Sykes Cottages Family Brand, the bonus will be paid as £250 credit to your owner account; if you don’t currently market and let a property with any Sykes Cottages Family Brand, the bonus will be paid to you as a £250 Sykes Holiday Cottages gift voucher.

There is no limit to how many owners you can refer, so the more you recommend us, the more you can earn.

To find out more about letting a property with Helpful Holidays, visit our ‘Let Your Cottage’ page to order a free Owners Guide.

Terms & Conditions 

1.    Introduction  

These are the terms and conditions that apply to the promotion and offer with the title “Refer a Friend” that is being run by the Promoter (as defined below) on www.sykescottages.co.uk and/or a website(s) of a Sykes Cottages Family Brand (as defined below) (each, a Website).  

2.    The Promoter  

The promoter for the Offer (as defined below) is Sykes Cottages Ltd (Trading as Menai Holiday Cottages), Registration No. 4469189 and whose registered office is at One City Place, Queens Road, Chester, CH1 3BQ (respectively, the Promoter and the Promoter’s Address). 

3.    Sykes Cottages Family Brands 

The Sykes Cottages Family Brands are: Abersoch Quality Homes, Best Escapes, Best of Suffolk, Carbis Bay Holidays, Coast and Country Cottages, Coast & Country Holidays, Cornish Cottage Holidays, Dream Cottages, Helpful Holidays, Hideaways, Hogans Irish Cottages, John Bray Cornish Holidays, Lake District Lodge Holidays, Lakelovers, Large Holiday Houses, Lyme Bay Holidays, Manor Cottages, Menai Holidays, Northumbria Coast & Country Cottages, Sykes Holiday Cottages, Welsh Coast and Country Cottages and Yorkshire Coastal Cottages (together, the Sykes Cottages Family Brands and each, a Sykes Cottages Family Brand. 

4.    The Offer 

4.1.    Subject to this paragraph 4 and paragraphs 5 and 6 of these Terms, if: 

4.1.1.    you recommend a friend to us that owns a property located in the United Kingdom that they wish to holiday let (respectively, the Referred Owner and the Referred Property); and  

4.1.2.    the Referred Owner enters into a contract with any Sykes Cottages Family Brand to market and let their property with such Sykes Cottages Family Brand; and 

4.1.3.    a booking is made at such Referred Property (Booking) and such Booking takes place, 

you may be eligible for the Referral Award (as defined below) and the Referred Owner may be eligible for the Owner Award (as defined and set out at paragraph 6 of these Terms below) (together, the Referral Award and the Owner Award being, the Awards and each, an Award) (Offer). 

4.2.    By accepting this Offer, you are deemed to agree to these Terms. 

4.3.    To recommend a Referred Owner to us, you must contact us on the details provided, including the details of the Referred Owner (Referral).  

4.4.    The Offer will run until 30th September 2025. 

4.5.    We reserve the right to suspend, cancel, withdraw, or amend the Offer at any time at our sole discretion. 

5.    Eligibility to the Offer and Award 

5.1.    To qualify for the Offer and to be eligible for an Award, in respect of each Referral: 

5.1.1.    the Referred Property must: 

5.1.1.1.    be located in the United Kingdom; and 

5.1.1.2.    not have been marketed and let by any Sykes Cottages Family Brand at any time in the period after 1 January 2016; 

5.1.2.    the Referred Owner must not: 

5.1.2.1.    have entered into a contract with us at any time to market and let any property; and/or 

5.1.2.2.    have previously contacted, or have been contacted by, any Sykes Cottages Family Brand in relation to marketing and/or letting a property in the period after 1 January 2016. 

5.2.    Unless Sykes provides prior written consent, this Offer can’t be used in conjunction with any other offer from Sykes and/or any Sykes Cottages Family Brand, including any other offer relating to signing a contract and/or listing a property with Sykes and/or any Sykes Cottages Family Brand.  

5.3.    Where the same Referred Owner is recommended to us by two parties, the Offer will only apply in respect of the first referral we receive in respect of that referred Owner.  

5.4.    Sykes and its Brands can choose not to enter into any contract with any Referred Owner in their sole discretion. Where this happens, you and/or the Referred Owner shall not be eligible for the Offer. 

6.    The Award 

6.1.    The Referral Award is: 

6.1.1.    if you currently market and let a property with any Sykes Cottages Family Brand, the issue of £250 credit to your owner account or such other amount as communicated to you by Sykes); or 

6.1.2.   if you don’t currently market and let a property with any Sykes Cottages Family Brand, the issue to you of a £250 (or such other amount communicated to you by Sykes) Sykes gift voucher (Gift Voucher) (and the applicable terms and conditions shall apply to such Sykes Gift Voucher). 

6.2.    The Owner Award is the issue of £250 credit to the Referred Owner’s owner account.  

6.3.    Any issue of credit to an owner account pursuant to the Offer shall be credited, and any issue of a Gift Voucher pursuant to the Offer will be issued, within a period of 2 months from the date that a Booking takes place.  

6.4.    Any Gift Voucher is to be used against the cost of a booking of a property (that is not the Referred Property) on a Website and must be used within 12 months of being issued.  

6.5.    The Offer will not be payable to either of you or the Referred Owner if the Referred Owner withdraws the Referred Property and/or terminates their agreement with the Promoter within the first month after going live on a Website.  

7.    Limitation of liability 

Insofar as is permitted by law, the Promoter, its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate any person that completes a Referral and/or and Referred Owner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of the completion of any Referral except where it is caused by the negligence of the Promoter or its employees. Your statutory rights are not affected.  

8.    General  

8.1.    This Offer is non-transferable (it’s to be used by you) and you agree not to assign (or otherwise transfer) these Terms to anyone without our prior written consent. 

8.2.    No one other than you and us are party to these Terms or able to enforce them, including under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. 

8.3.    These Terms shall be governed by English law, and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or their subject matter. If a court or relevant authority decides any term of the Terms is unenforceable, the remaining provisions will stay in full force and effect.