Last Minute Cottages in Cambridgeshire

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Rob - Verified booking

  I booked this as a get away for me and my three boys rather than mixing their house and my house in Derbyshire at the current time.

  They live locally to Cambridge and I lived in the area for 16 years so we know it well - this was a place for us to just chill and be together..... It is a truly wonderful place - spotlessly clean with excellent communications from the owner prior to our arrival, and also a lovely welcome pack in the kitchen on arrival. Very comfortable place to stay with enough space for me and my three boys to spread out and not be on top of each other. For three lads between 8 and 16 the excellent WiFi was a boon as they took their gamin machines!!! The kitchen is superbly equipped and this made feeding everyone easy (and cleaning up afterwards - I miss a dishawsher), though we did have a Chinese takeaway from an excellent restaurant in Great Shelford one night. The bathrooms were lovely, the beds are very comfy, and the shower is superb. As I said it was just a place for us to be together and chill rather than be tourists - but we had a day out at the Imperial war Museum at Duxford which was good fun and close by, and there are lots of National Trust properties nearby - the train makes getting to London or Cambridge easy as well. Thorough recommended by us, and saved as a place to book again :-)

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• Jennifer - Verified booking

  The cottage was perfect, spotlessly clean and very comfortable.

  Everything we could possible have needed was supplied and we were greeted by a lovely welcome of cakes and home made preserves (even to a pint of milk in he 'frig) We met the owner and his Daughter Holly, she - lives next door - and they were so pleasant and helpful. The setting is in a very pleasant village which is a good base for many local attractions such as Cambridge and Ely and for aviation enthusiasts Duxford is but a few minutes drive and the Shuttleworth Collection is also close by. There are plenty of good places to eat locally too. One stand out eatery was the Cross Keys Hotel in Saffron Walden - highly recommended ! Of course we must not forget Steve (Hollies cat) who is usually around the gardens on sunny days and enjoys a good conversation ! All in all we have to say it would be hard to better this wonderful old thatched cottage. We certainly intend to return.

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• Richard - Verified booking

  The location was ideal to visit family in Cambridge and Hitchin and to go for walks around the surrounding villages.

  We also visited the Wimpole Estate, RSPB at Fowlmere and took the train to Cambridge. The cottage itself with its history (1637 carved into the plaster above the fireplace) and thatched roof and setting in Foxton made it seem something special and not just like a hotel. Careful renovation and a modern extension made it both self contained and a comfortable experience with all we needed to prepare meals instead of eating out due to Covid 19. We felt the list of extra cleaning provided to protect us from coronavirus made us feel safe. Helpful and thoughtful touches like a list of places nearby doing the "eat out to help out" scheme (had we needed it) and a local farm shop wrapped cake instead of the host's usual home baking made us feel welcomed and cared for. Foxton is an interesting historical village with plenty to see and read about in the infomation provided.

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• Helen - Verified booking

  Beaumont Cottage is so beautiful and full of history.

  When you walk in the door it hugs you and you immediately start to relax and chill. The owners had thought of such lovely little touches including a gorgeous homemade cake, homemade chutney, jam and baskets of "in case you forgot them" toiletries in each bathroom. The roll top bath was a dream to soak away the stresses and we loved and the original beams and the spiral staircase. There is plenty to do in the area and a week wasn't really enough so we will be returning to this lovely cottage. There is a great train link and bus route from the village so you don't have to walk far to let public transport take you to lots of places like Cambridge and London as well as local visitor attractions. A perfect holiday to recharge our batteries !

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• Kathy - Verified booking

  The cottage is absolutely gorgeous and the extra little things like homemade preserves, eggs, cake and biscuits were a lovely surprise.

  We cooked in the cottage for a number of evenings and there was all the equipment we needed to do this. Things such as having salt and pepper and toilet roll/kitchen roll for the whole stay were pleasing bonuses most cottages don't have. The cottage is spacious and provided a great base for the four of us. The pub across the road is friendly and so we enjoyed wandering over for a drink and a game of crib in the evenings. Although the cleaning standard was good overall, the kitchen sink plugholes were not as clean as you'd expect and there were cocoa pops (quite a few), from a previous visitor, stuck to one of the blankets in the downstairs bedroom. Overall, we'd definitely recommend this cottage.

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