Dog Friendly Bed And Breakfasts In The North West

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Nick - Verified booking

  A lovely house in a wonderful location, with good facilities.

  Although very small, our family of 4 were happy for 5 nights. A few things to watch out for: On arrival,m the key safe box was wide open. Not sure if it hadn't been closed properly or if someone had broken into it, but something to be aware of. In you are tall, you'll bang your head on the hanging lights multiples times during your stay. We had to put a chair under the one in the lounge to avoid injury! Spotlights would make much more sense... ah, the spotlights.. maybe not, beware the spotlight in the shower cubicle, it'll give you a really bad burn because they get far too hot (especially if you're balding like me). The heating - ignore the 25 mins max message unless someone has only just left the property, it took 1.5 hours to get the water hot enough to ensure we wouldn't get Legionnaires! After that, an occasional 25mins was fine to top it up. Thankfully we took our own baking tray because those provided were in the oven and clearly hadn't been washed. Unfortunately we didn't take our own bottle opener, and the one provided was broken. We had some inquisitive slugs roam around the kitchen in the evenings, but they were harmlessly returned outside. It happens, our previous home had them too. 9:30 check-out. Come one really? That's far too early, especially with a family of 4 trying to cook/eat/clean-up breakfast. This definitely needs to be increase to at least 10:30, if not 11. Sedburgh is absolutely lovely, just be careful of some of the 'pubs' (restaurants) as they can really burn your wallet. Check out the Waffle Cone and Red Lion (we had to book). Parking wasn't an issue until the night before our departure, and due to the ridiculous departure time all the spaces were still occupied, so we had to lug our stuff up and down the road. Oh, and say hello to the chap next door if you see him about. He's lovely and doesn't bite. All in all, a very pleasant stay, which we might return to in the future.

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• S - Verified booking

  Sedbergh is lovely, will definitely return to the area.

  Fells cottage is small but full of amenities and spotlessly clean. A great location. Plenty of useful information about cottage, lighting Esse range and locality. Made booking with Booking.com - no key collection information from them but from Sykes Cottages who I didn't book with so they didn't have my email address. Only when I queried the possibility of moving dates did I get key information - on 12.12.18. Pertinent information about key collection could have been more prominent and not buried in a wordy email that included all details, Sykes app download and travel insurance. Didn't have any direct contact with the owner - only via Sykes. Owner kindly agreed to let me move dates (reason for stay was attending a wedding but one relative couldn't go due to having flu) but I decided to stick with my original booking as extra charges to move dates to January 2019 were excessive. Only ended up staying one night (spent other nights visiting ill relative). Arrived around 5.30pm on 13.12.18 and cottage was very cold - storage heaters had expended their heat; thankfully the Esse range was easy to light with enough wood provided for a couple of hours but it did take a while to heat the space, after the doors to kitchen, bedrooms and bathroom were closed. I could have brought wood from home to keep the fire in longer had I known I would have to rely on lighting the stove. Choice of Failed to meet expectations - didn't book with Sykes so I had no expectations of their service

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• Michael - Verified booking

  The cottage is fine and in a great location, close to the town centre and was lovely and clean, Zoe the cleaner did a great job.

  We thought that the listing for 4 people is a little misleading as the cottage is very small and doesn’t really have facility for 4 people (there are only 3 seats in the lounge and 3 proper seats around the dinning table). I would also suggest that there is very little storage for 4 people to put clothes in. We have used this cottage before prior to it being with Sykes and don’t think that some of the additions that the new owners have made add anything more. The range cooker in the lounge is too big and a gimmick, my own personal view is I don’t want two pages of instructions of how to light the thing and all the hassle of cleaning it out. There are a few minor niggles that need to be dealt with such as the shower door, and the low light fittings that are a bit of a hazard and the broken door tray in the fridge. The changes to the rear garden area are great, and this makes somewhere nice to sit outside there are new external doors, new wood floors and a dish washer. When booking we where aware that this cottage was fine for two people and that is what we found as there was only two of us staying for the week. The personal touches that the previous owners made such as a bottle of wine on arrival and a small message where gone, this might be something the new owners may look at as it makes you feel welcome and a valued customer and adds a nice personal touch.

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• Philip - Verified booking

  Directions from Sykes useless - the property is tucked away behind a garden nursery.

  Had to phone owner for precise instructions. A very warm welcome from the owners (but no welcome pack). First hurdle was the high (for us) step into the property. The owner very kindly organised some planks to make it easier. Thank you. Bedrooms, kitchen & bathroom immaculate but the lounge was a bit dusty in the corners. Mismatch of furniture did not match the photo in the Sykes description. Excellent large TV (Freeview only) but no WiFi which was disappointing. kitchen well equipped and dishwasher very useful! Bathroom very 'cosy' and not easy to get into the shower if you have mobility problems. The property faces west so a good view of the sunsets, ideal in summer. Also a good recreation area. In summary, a nice property for two as a base for touring the area. A family of 4 might find it claustrophobic.

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• Raymond - Verified booking

  Fells Cottage was lovely and clean on arrival and we appreciated the Bottle of Wine left for us.

  The kitchen was well equipped and it was especially helpful to have instructions left for each appliance. Everywhere looked freshly decorated. We found the living accomodation a bit crampt for 3 adults and a dog but that was our fault as its clearly listed as a smaller property. Parking is available outside the properly but on a few occasions had to park further up the road if we arrived back a bit late. The 1st night we found very cold as it took a while to get the stove to heat up and the only other heating is night storage haters that only come on at 1am and where turned off the night before we arrived. After that it was super cosy. There was a huge supply of walking guides and we really enjoyed a daily morning walk come rain or shine and we certainly had plenty of rain!!!

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