The word 'sleeps' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who is asleep or as a verb meaning to rest in a state of sleep. For example: "Every night, James sleeps soundly in his cozy bed."
Low point: Her first Hollywood film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Each sleeps just two people: choose from the sleek Le Bébé Cottage, with its baroque Paris feel (there's even a bright-red birdcage reborn as a swivel chair); Aunt Zoe's Place, decorated like a 1940s lakeside cabin, with restored farm sinks and stained-glass windows; and Papa Hemmingway Cottage, designed like a wilderness lodge.
Each apartment is individually designed – one is decorated like an Indian boudoir (sleeps up to four), another has an oriental feel with Japanese "shoji" sliding doors (sleeps up to six), while the penthouse has its own roof garden (sleeps up to nine).
Where to stay The Landmark Trust has two stunning rooftop self-catering apartments in the beautiful Villa dei Vescovi, once a summer retreat for the bishops of Padua (from £603 for four nights, sleeps four, landmarktrust.org.uk).uk
+34 915 237451, villas.spain-select.com Good for Clubbing – and chilling Sleeps 4 Cost from €2,300 a week There are many ultra-smart houses on the White Isle, but few can beat this for location, just down a path from Cala Jondal.
Other options include a farmhouse with swimming pool in Poitou-Charentes (sleeps four, from £333 a month); a gite with a tower in Provence (sleeps five, from £393 a month); or a 19th-century wine lodge in the Pyrenees (sleeps two, from £428 a month).
Family dome (sleeps 7) €80 a night, year-round; breakfast is €7.50.
These range from a flat with a double bedroom and sea views (popular with writers who have been known to book several weeks at a time), a timber chalet that sleeps up to five, and a cottage with two double bedrooms with en suite bathrooms.
+1 268 722 3050, barbudacottages.com, sleeps six from about £1,600 a week The rocks that give so much character to the beaches of the Baths and Spring Bay on Virgin Gorda, the third-largest of the British Virgin Islands, run through the Guavaberry resort too.
01642 210163, formentera.co.uk Good for watersports lovers Sleeps 2 adults and 2 children Cost from €1,800 a week With the choppy white horses of the Atlantic a minute's walk from the garden, this Tarifa cottage is great for kite- and windsurfers.
01954 261 431, vintagetravel.co.uk Good for social gatherings Sleeps 4 Cost from £781 a week In the north of the island, just a 20-minute potter from historic Rethymnon, this two-bedroom terraced house shares a pool and deck with three others.
