Holiday Cottages With Hot Tubs In Ilfracombe

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What our customers say about their holidays

• John - Verified booking

  The perfect family holiday

  If there's ever a perfect English holiday, this is it! The Wild Pear House, a classic but cosy building, looks out over well kept gardens, down to paddocks and ponds where chickens, ducks and alpacas wander all day, and beyond to the lush rolling hills of Devon, where the sun sets (if you're lucky enough to get it!) while you sit in the hot tub with your cuppa or cocktail. It's just 10 minutes drive to calm coves and sandy inlets you've never have heard of, where you can swim and paddle board, and half an hour's drive to the great surf beaches of Woolacombe etc (but get there before 10 if you want to be sure of a car parking space). And should the unthinkable happen and it rains, there's the indoor pool and games room. The house is well equipped and feels like you're staying in a friend's home, with comfy bedrooms, modern clean bathrooms and a big country style kitchen, next to which is the table tennis room where many a competition took place. One part of our family, with a 10 month baby, took the smaller Sandy Bay Cottage, which gave them space, and was just 20 steps from the main house, so close enough for baby monitor to work. Best of all are the owners who run it as if you're truly guests in their home, with Alice invariably somewhere looking after the animals, veggie patch (to which you can help yourself) and guests. We all said we want to go back as soon as possible, and we will... many thanks for a great holiday! perfect family holiday

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• John - Verified booking

  The perfect family holiday

  If there's ever a perfect English holiday, this is it! The Wild Pear House, a classic but cosy building, looks out over well kept gardens, down to paddocks and ponds where chickens, ducks and alpacas wander all day, and beyond to the lush rolling hills of Devon, where the sun sets (if you're lucky enough to get it!) while you sit in the hot tub with your cuppa or cocktail. It's just 10 minutes drive to calm coves and sandy inlets you've never have heard of, where you can swim and paddle board, and half an hour's drive to the great surf beaches of Woolacombe etc (but get there before 10 if you want to be sure of a car parking space). And should the unthinkable happen and it rains, there's the indoor pool and games room. The house is well equipped and feels like you're staying in a friend's home, with comfy bedrooms, modern clean bathrooms and a big country style kitchen, next to which is the table tennis room where many a competition took place. One part of our family, with a 10 month baby, took the smaller Sandy Bay Cottage, which gave them space, and was just 20 steps from the main house, so close enough for baby monitor to work. Best of all are the owners who run it as if you're truly guests in their home, with Alice invariably somewhere looking after the animals, veggie patch (to which you can help yourself) and guests. We all said we want to go back as soon as possible, and we will... many thanks for a great holiday! perfect family holiday

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• Colin - Verified booking

  A wonderful week staying at The Wild Pear House & The Broadsands Farmhouse

  This was our second visit to the Wild Pear House & The Broadsands Farmhouse with our extended family of 8 adults and 5 children. The houses are both very clean, well designed & comfortable. Alice the new owner was very welcoming and helpful. There is everything on site a family needs - the indoor swimming pool (a great favourite) hot tubs, games room, outside play areas and animals to enjoy. The children and grown ups always enjoy table tennis in the games room in the house. There is plenty of space for children to run around safely and go on walks outside. We loved eating outside in front of the house. This year the owners have collaborations with local providers and we have a great 3 course meal from Wayne, an outstanding chef and treatments from Hannah a really good masseur. The beaches nearby are great; Barricane (with a super beach hut providing food and drinks) with lots of rock pools to explore, Putsborough a lovely sandy beach at the far end of Woolacombe so is quieter and far less busy, Woody Bay is well worth a visit as it is spectacular and usually deserted. All in all a family paradise.

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• Lydia - Verified booking

  A fabulous holiday home for a group

  The Wild Pear House proved to be a perfect place for a three generational family holiday with flexible bedroom space and two beautiful formal reception rooms as well as it's own much used games room with a table tennis and table football table. As one of seven holiday lets in the grounds it also benefitted from a range of other activities - including the hot tub on the terrace, the swimming pool, beautiful hilly grounds with hidden playground and sports areas and perhaps for us the "piece de resistance" - the opportunity to enjoy and feed the animals each day. Perhaps the thing that made this holiday home refreshingly different was the attitude of the owner, Alice, and the maintenance manager, Roy, - who both went out of the way to make sure that we had everything we needed throughout our stay.

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• Mrs Taylor - Verified booking

  We loved our week away at the roost. made us feel welcome and was available on site if you needed help. The roost was clean, cosy, comfortable and so peaceful in an idyllic position. It reminded me of a tree house set in Africa. Whilst we didn't have giraffes to feed from our novel height we did see plenty of birdlife including a tawny owl which appeared each night as the bats left the roost (which Paul built). The hot tub was lovely at the end of each day. Lee bay is lovely, hidden away. We would definitely recommend The Roost as long as your mobility isn't impaired as parking is away from the house up 20 steps. You can drop off luggage via a side gate on the road but you can't park there. Over all our holiday was very enjoyable, peaceful, comfortable and I would return at the drop of a hat.

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