AndyStyles
August 2013
We stayed here with our two boys aged 6 and 9, and were pleasantly surprised with the quality. Clean throughout, good linen, towels (supplied, unlike many cottages) and furnishings, good equipment in the kitchen, and free wifi throughout.
The cottage is set along a quiet private drive, is semi-detached and has room for a couple of cars. The downstairs features a lean-to style conservatory, lounge, kitchen and downstairs bathroom with shower. Upstairs has three bedrooms. The main bedroom and second bedrooms were spacious and the third bedroom (which our 9 year old chose!) was smaller (watch the door on the bed). Outside has a large enough grassed area for the boys to charge about on. There's a table with 6 chairs and two loungers. There is use of a summer house, but it's down the road, past the owners' cottage so we didn't really use it.
The bedrooms all had relatively low windows, so easy enough for children to open; it would have been better to have some way to secure them against opening too far.
The main bedroom has the double with the second bedroom having the king/twin room. I felt it would have better to have the kingsize in the main bedroom, but I'm fussy over bed sizes.
The description mentioned a selection of books, games and DVDs; we only found a handful of DVDs and some magazines, certainly no games which would have been useful for the wet days!
For:
Location - once our boys stopped making noise (eg, bedtime), all you could hear were the sheep, cows and birds!
Quality of the fittings and so on
Somewhere for the boys to run about safely
Provision of things like cleaning equipment, tea-towels, dishwasher tablets etc
Against (minor ones!):
Downstairs bathroom - we knew about this before booking, but it is the only bathroom, so if you need to get up in the night, it's a trip downstairs.
Summer house - again, we guessed from the description that it wasn't near by.
Conservatory wasn't really usable as it has local leaflets spread around the room on the shelf, and houses the cushions for the chairs and loungers, a BBQ, logs for the fire, and the recycling.
We would definitely go back!