Holiday Cottages In Bedale

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Kelly - Verified booking

  Lovely spacious cottage in a lovely area.

  Very friendly lady owner lives next door. Very nice to have delicious butter, eggs, milk and fruit when we arrived. Plenty of crockery and cooking utensils if you are self catering. We ate out every night and had some delicious meals in the local area my favourite was Spice Indian next to the White Bear pub which was also a delightful friendly place. Bedding at the cottage was lovely quality and beds comfortable, also plenty of fresh towels provided. Heating went on and off, (as did the Wi-Fi) and was quite cool in living room in an afternoon however there was an additional electric plug in heater that kicked out plenty of heat. Entrance to long well kept drive could do with lighting up as it was pitch black coming back at night. Torches were provided however, I didn’t want to carry those around as they were quite big. The hot water wasn’t boiling so you could run a bath without needing the cold tap. Black bits of mould came from behind the seal around the bath when I rinsed the bath out so I think this needs some attention. Also there were a few cobwebs around the place ( above bed, behind lamp table, below shelf in conservatory to name a few) one which fell onto my mother in laws breakfast from the beam in the living room. However I know that due to personal reasons this might not be at the forefront of owners mind. Having said this I would definitely 100% recommend staying here as we had a lovely chilled week in a lovely place with extremely friendly locals

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• Angela - Verified booking

  Not recommended for anyone who needs internet access.

  I was very disappointed the property was advertised with Broadband/Wi-Fi at best it was 2mb down and 0.1mb up and the 4g mobile signal was very patchy and intermittent. Unable to stream the sport from my accounts, emails were a struggle and even the simplest of google searches seemed to take forever. This spoilt the holiday, aside from missing my sport, I was unable to check up on emails and upload stuff back to the office, I had to waste hours during the day away from the cottage doing this via hotspots, when I should have been out and about enjoying the countryside. Part of the blame should fall with Sykes Cottages as they probably have a tick box for cottage owners, Does your property have Wi-Fi/Broadband? Yes/No. This should be amended to advertise the connection speed as i certainly would not have booked this cottage had I have known how primitive the internet connection was. That aside the cottage was clean and comfortable, quiet location but only 5 minutes from Bedale and close to the A1. Other niggles there was no egg lifter in the kitchen so difficult to turn food in the frying pan and impossible to remove a fried eggs. It may be because it was early in the season and they had not been opened since the autumn but upon opening the Velux windows in the bedrooms and washroom the rooms would fill with flies that were living around the seals in the windows, not pleasant, picking up dead and dopey flies and trying to shoo the flying ones out of the window.

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• Stephen - Verified booking

  The holiday cottage, owner and location were excellent.

  My only negative comment to make is about the day I rang your (Sykes) office to check availability and price and to potentially book the property. It was available for my dates and I was expecting the price to be confirmed as described on the web site = £293. However I was told it was now £299 ! I queried this and was told it was because I was booking it on the phone. So now booking it on the phone costs £6.00 extra - that's a neat trick you don't mention when advising which buttons to press on the phone or as far as I can see on your website or terms and conditions either. I have booked on the phone with your company in the past without this extra cost being added - it used to be a simple thing to do without challenging the extras. You already take a booking fee and thats when I book online myself. I suggested to the agent that I might as well stop the call and go and book it online - for the advertised price. At that point she said she might be able to waive the £6.00 charge - so I agreed to continue with the £293 price. This activity sounds a bit underhand to me - I don't know (yet) of any other holiday company that charges extra for ringing up.... and hopefully in future you wont either.

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• Mrs Loadman - Verified booking

  A lovely well appointed cottage, extremely comfortable and so well equipped. Nice enclosed cottage gardens to front and rear of the property. No shortage of kitchen ware to cook evening meal with, very impressed with everything really, no problems at all. Bath too high for a shortie like me to climb in to use the lovely shower but that’s my problem, nothing a step stool couldn’t help with!Good internet reception for when we needed it, but mainly out walking with our dog or generally exploring. So many trails to enjoy. Crakehall is a lovely village with several village greens and a friendly pub. Need to use Bedale for shops and they are more than adequate. We were blessed with such good weather so sat outside a few times.We had a wonderful 5 days and would definitely return.

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• Kathryn - Verified booking

  A lovely peaceful cottage in a great location for visiting Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors.

  This cottage is very clean and very comfortable. A very small negative for us stopping for two weeks, no washing machine in the kitchen, so had to hand wash items when getting muddy on walks in the area. The garden was lovely in the evenings to be able to sit outside and watch the sun set. Lovely fresh flowers on arrival and the owner available if you have any issues but not intrusive. Home made cake and wine on arrival as well made us feel really welcome. Will definitely be returning to this cottage.

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