janethebby
July 2019
Lovely entertaining holiday home.. we were a family of 11 from age 2-77.
The electric gated garden is huge, well kept and safe for children to play out.
The gym was far more equipped than we imagined as the photos don’t show you to it’s full extent.
The main bedroom was out of this world with a separate dressing room.. it does include the main bathroom with fantastic double jacuzzi but the door doesn’t lock so some members of our group weren’t comfortable to make use of it. It has a seperate walk-in dressing room as does one of the other bedrooms in the main house and has a huge decked verandah leading off from the bedroom that has fantastic views of the country side. We were disappointed to find though that it was quite dirty as hadn’t been jet washed or brushed prior to our arrival sonhad we used it all the dirty from our feet would have been transferred to the bedroom carpet. To he honest the cleaning wasn’t the best, we had to clean the patio table and chairs so we could use them and it hadn’t been swept so had dead leaves ect scattered.. we took disposable bbq’s to sit on the bbq. And in the party room there was a sticky spillage from previous guests and crumbs ect under the sofas.. The kitchen window sills were full of cobwebs too.. I appreciate it’s a huge house to clean and the windows alone will take a day to clean but maybe their cleaning team isn’t large enough to manage the full house in the 7hr turn around.
Like previous reviews said it does need some tlc but we still thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.. a lovely family get together..it was grand watching films in the very comfy cinema, if you have problems connecting it to the internet contact the owner and he will call you back and help.. The karaoke was very easy to use and had lots of songs although we just streamed YouTube songs to sing to.
If you use the hot tub be sure to test the water with the strips in the utility as we didn’t and the chlorine Burnt nostrils and eyes and made skin sore.. not sure what went wrong.
There is 2 equipped utilities with 2 washers, 2 dryers, iron ect and many cleaning products and washing powders although we took our own.. a few hoovers too.
Could do with two dishwashers as one isn’t enough for so many guests and was temperamental with working.
If you walk out on to the main road and turn right you will come to a bridge with steps leading down to a river to walk along.
It’s an hour in to Blackpool which we did a few times for the circus, sealife centre, zoo and Lytham st Anne’s for the beach and free outdoor water park based next to the Toby carvery. We ate at Yu chines restaurant about 15 mins away which was really nice although a bit pricey, and we had fish and chips and take aways from the village. Clitheroe town is larger than we thought and has a market non a Tuesday and there’s a large carboot in the cattle market every sunday (first time I’ve ever paid to walk around a car boot £2 each)
The cottage and lodge were lovely too and well equipped, they were used mainly for sleeping in as we all ate in the main house as I got a large tesco delivery on the eve we arrived.