Hello
Can't help with currency (am Australian) but here are some frugal tips.
Go to the UK website called moneyexperts and look at the daysout forum for all manner of coupons/discounts and huge amount of great advice.
Have a look at reduced entries via membership of the heritage organisations - CADW is the cheapest one to join and a year's membership entitles you to free entry of all Welsh properties and half price entry to all English Heritage and Scotttish properties. Better yet, join for two years and you get free entry to all three agency's properties. THe other heritage organisation - National Trust - can be joined in Australia or New Zealand by outsiders and allows you reciprical rights for free entry into all National Trust properties in the UK. SO by joining National Trust and CADW (Welsh Heritage) you get access to almost all British heritage properties. There is also a Great British Heritage pass that is a good deal but I personally like having the choice of anything on the map!
Hire a car from Peugot if you are staying for 30plus days - they gain a tax advantage by hiring out new cars - look at the 'driveaway' website to see how much you can save. No extra insurance, no extra charges for extra drivers etc. Can be a really good deal depending on your time frame.
Travel opposite to the tourist season. The same cottage can cost 1200pd in high season and 300pd in low season. If you do the highlands and more remote areas in high season, you'll pay a lot less money and then start doing the more tourist oriented traps towards the end of high season - save hundreds and hundreds of pounds.
Stay in cottages for self catering or get hooked up to the Travelodge sites which have rooms for 15pd plus a night, as do Formula 1 and a few other bit hotel chains. As they charge per room and not per bed, is a great rate. Can be in pretty yucky places though.
Anyway, they are some of our frugal tips - will save thousands on our upcoming holiday - at 1pd = $2/$3 aussie dollars, makes a big difference.
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