Here are the answers to some of the questions you might have about booking and staying in the cottage.
Where can I park? What are the arrival and departure times? Can I arrive early or leave late? I have a dog. Do you allow pets? It sleeps up to four but can we book with an additional small child / baby? Can extra guests stay overnight? Can we stay for two nights at the weekend? Can we have a discount, for late availability perhaps? Why are short break prices higher per night than weekly bookings? Do you have an access statement? What type of cot is there and do I need to bring my own cot bedding? We would like to bring our bikes. Do you have bike storage? We have an electric vehicle. Where can we charge it? Is smoking allowed inside the cottage? Do I have to clean the cottage before I leave? Is there free WiFi? Can I watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, Now TV etc? Do you provide logs for the wood burner? How do I find your availability and is it up to date? Availability is bang up to date. The calendar is always updated when a booking is reserved or confirmed. All information about booking, including paying the deposit and the balance and filling in the booking form is on that page. Do you take a damage deposit? It's time to pack. What do we need to bring? At the cottage: Enough to get you started: There should be one or two toilet rolls in the cottage when you arrive and enough logs for an evening. After that you need to supply your own. Please let our housekeeper know if you can’t find any of the above things. The following items are often at the cottage: When we visit we make sure the above things are in good supply in the cottage. If the cottage has been booked a lot and we haven’t visited for a while they might have got used up and perhaps not been replaced by other guests before your visit. Best to check when you arrive and then buy as required. Bring your own Much of this is pretty obvious and if something is forgotten, don’t worry, there’s plenty of local shops: Food and drink* * You can get a supermarket food delivery made to the cottage, timed when you know you’ll have arrived. Waitrose, Sainsburys, Ocado and Asda definitely deliver to our area. We suggest you just get the basics though. With so many great places to eat out and local food shops and markets you might not be doing much cooking and, when you do, it’s a pleasure to shop locally. If you have babies, toddlers or kids you may need: ** A lesson learnt from experience. One holiday, when our daughter was still quite little, we realised on the outbound journey we’d accidentally left her favourite teddy at home. Calamity. It was too late to go back. We listened to her singing a sad song every bedtime about how much she missed him. 🙁
Bed linen
Towels
Tea towels
Bin bags – kitchen and outdoor ones
Local maps and guide books
Travel cot
High chair.
Toilet rolls
Logs and kindling (in the colder months).
Washing up liquid, rubber gloves, sponges
Kitchen roll
Antibacterial handwash in kitchen and liquid soap in bathroom
Kitchen cleaner
Tin foil and cling film
Tea / coffee / sugar
Matches.
Toiletries
Clothes, including swimming gear
Slippers or warm socks in winter – the flagstone floor downstairs can be cold on the feet!
Hat and gloves (cold weather)
Sun hat (summer)
Walking boots
Any medicine you may need
Suntan lotion
Small first aid kit
Phone, iPad etc.
Camera
Chargers for any of the above
Buckets and spades
Beach towels
Picnic hamper / coolbox / sandwich container.
Cot bedding
Travel stair-gate perhaps
Child toilet seat
Toilet step
Favourite teddy and toys **
Night light
Nappies, nappy bags, baby wipes etc.