Villas In Derbyshire

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Leon - Verified booking

  Galena is a lovely old cottage in beautiful rural surroundings, very well modernised, with three huge and comfortable beds in the two en suite bedrooms and third bedroom with bathroom two steps away.

  It's secret extra ingredient is in the micro details the owners have deployed - almost every little nice-to-have extra thing you wish you had in other good cottages is actually already in place in Galena. This ranges from kit to make young kids comfy to kit for your dogs, and adult tools. For example really good kitchen equipment, from a range of good oven trays and saucepans, kitchen knives that are actually sharp, a coffee pod machine, right down to small wooden tongs with which to pick toast out of the toaster and little plastic bag clips. Throw in an efficient log burner, with a good supply of logs to make the living room toasty, and it's a real home from home. The views from the kitchen and bedrooms are spectacular green vistas of fields, farms, dry stone walls and distant hills, while the cottage is surrounded by amazing Peak District heights, view points, roadside rivers and plunging valleys. There's no shortage of good pubs and cafes within a very few minutes' drive. But what I enjoyed most in our stay at the end of March was the magnificent tree blossoming right outside the back kitchen window, full of songbirds from blackbirds to so many beautiful little blue tits, goldfinches and others, filling the air with their music. ...and the sheep! You can't miss the sheep grazing peacefully on the slope just above the kitchen window, a few feet behind the cottage's dry stone garden wall, as you graze on your own breakfast. My wife and I and two other couples of very old friends have been hiring lovely cottages together for an annual break for about 15 years, not to mention family holidays, so have plenty of experience. We all agreed Galena Cottage was one of the very best.

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• Helen - Verified booking

  The cottage was spotlessly clean.

  Beds were super comfortable. Lovely to have a pint of milk, a gorgeous cake and dog treats left for us. Nice living area. Small kitchen but pretty much everything was there. Despite having an area to barbeque, there were no tongs. The location lets it down, sitting between the busy A6 and the A6 filter road means it is very noisy, meaning when you sat outside on the patio the traffic noise was very loud and very fast on the front. Parking is an issue, having 2 allocated parking spaces we had only been there around 10 minutes to a knock on the door from another resident asking us to move 1 car as its so tight to fit 2 cars in!! There are stairs downstairs to the patio and very useful cellar but this meant there were no back doors to any patio so you unable to get a breeze through. Chapel en le Frith was a good base to travel out to places, but a small high street with very few shops/cafea to mooch round, it isnt the place if that's what you want to do. The cottage does accept dogs but not allowed to have a wee on the patio so had to take her out all the time to toilet (we would have washed it down) which was a faff. Also the back gate isnt to the floor so our small dog could have got out under the gate so we had to watch her constantly. Overall we had a really good holiday but would not return to Chapel en le Frith.

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• Nick - Verified booking

  We had a lovely stay here.

  The cottage was very well equipped and the welcome cake and dog treats were a very pleasant surprise after an arduous journey there. The owners were always on hand should we need them and were very friendly. It is an ideal location for reaching the likes of Buxton, Bakewell and even Matlock wasn’t too far away. If, however, you are looking for a walking holiday, as we were, there are a plethora of walks in the vicinity. Thor’s Cave - well worth a visit - is around 20 minutes away and the views are spectacular. The Tissington Trail is a nice cycle ride/walk and the valley of Dovedale is very picturesque. We were spoilt for choice on what to do every day. We had read on previous reviews that the traffic noise at the accommodation was very loud and that did worry us as we live in a quiet cul-de-sac. However, please don’t let that put you off as we very quickly adapted to it and after a while we barely noticed it. All in all we had a great time here and if, next year, we find ourselves needing to book a staycation again we will most definitely look at rebooking the cottage.

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• Chris - Verified booking

  We had a good week at Galena Cottage.

  The kitchen is well equipped and we appreciated the welcome pack. Good location with walks direct from the house. It’s well placed for the Monsal Trail and places in and around Buxton. We would recommend asking for an earlier take over time in winter so you can get settled in daylight. The cottage was difficult to find as the cottage sign was unreadable and locating the key box might be difficult in the dark and access tricky. We arrived in minus temperatures and thick snow, and had to dig out the drive to get the cars in. A friendly neighbour lent us a spade as the one in the garage was broken and not up to the job. The house was very cold when we arrived but once the heating was on the cottage apart from the kitchen was warm and cosy. The kitchen radiator did not heat up at all making the kitchen far too cold to sit in for meals initially. Fortunately the maintenance team told us how to solve the issue - by turning off a bedroom radiator. I’d recommend ringing them if any problems are encountered as Margaret was helpful and friendly.

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• Trevor - Verified booking

  This is an excellent cottage in all aspects except one!

  First the excellent stuff - clean, tidy, car parking, alarm, space, cake supplied, friendly neighbours, access to Kinder/Castleton, 2 bathrooms/showers. The cottage is listed as sleeping 6 by use of the downstairs second room and a pull out double and this is accurate. However it is almost impossible to seat 4 round the Kitchen table (the only table) and how one would seat 6 is beyond me. We (two adults, two 12 year olds) found it very difficult to squeeze/climb in and out due to lack of space and the number and spacing of the table legs. I opted to stand for breakfast and the rest of the time we ate out. Cant see a solution really - there just isn't room in the kitchen to sit at a useful table. (Personally I hated the tap too - wibbly wobbly spray and difficult to use - but the kids thought it was cool!). But overall we had a very good stay and would certainly go there again.

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