Katy B
April 2015
We came to Reeth with our 4 month puppy for a week in March - and had a brilliant time. The apartment is furnished and equipped to a very high standard - plenty of towels and dressing gowns for the hot tub - and the living room is wonderful to relax in with the wood burning stove and admire the views from two sides of Yorkshire Countryside. Beds are very comfy (important to me!) and bedrooms have plenty of storage space, and even the thoughtful addition of a laundry basket! Lots of little touches throughout the apartment that make it a wonderfully relaxing place to stay, starting with the now infamous flapjacks!
The village has everything you need, two shops (one open until 7 for last minute supper items!) and three decent pubs which all serve good quality food! Dogs very welcome, and can recommend the Buck for takeaway pizza. If you want to splash out the Hotel food is amazing, but meal times are set and definitely need booking!! Ice cream parlour was tested by my 8 & 9 year old, more than once... and the gift shop has some wonderful local crafts to take home. The chocolate is highly recommended!!
Reeth is on the doorstep of great walks either in rolling countryside, or to some amazing waterfalls. Our puppy loved the outdoors and all the new things to see, and I think we all blew some cobwebs out! We had all sorts of weather, including snow and sunshine alternating one day! Come prepared....
The absolute without a doubt highlight of the holiday was the wood fired hot tub. I have been in a plastic hot tub once, and was really put off by the chemicals, but there is just water in this hot tub. Water that is heated to 40 degrees, that's hot bath temperature...... And with the jacuzzi bubbles going, drinking something chilled and possibly fizzy, with rain gently falling on you after a long day being blown around on the Dales, there is really nothing better. Unless it's with chocolate too. Tracey and Katie kindly get it going for you when you're out yomping, so you come back to relax in a lovely hot, and I mean hot tub with glorious views.
This is the perfect place to stay, Tracey and Katie are wonderful hosts and are there when you need them and not when you don't! Will definitely come back!
P.S. Husband now wants to buy a wood fired hot tub, suspect he won't be the last....