Holiday Apartments in Kington

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Carolyn - Verified booking

  The School Room is at a great location - just a short walk from downtown Kington and local walking paths.

  The room is spacious, but feels cosy. I have plenty of space to open my suitcase and spread out I very much appreciate the comfortable bed, and the extra blankets available. I am also able to turn the heat on as needed, and the shower has plenty of hot water. (Uncomfortable beds, and lack of heat and hot water have been issues at other places I have stayed). The beautiful house is stone, so it stays cool in the summer heat. The room is also very quiet, so no worries about being woken up in the middle of the night by loud neighbors. Sarah and Roger are lovely people; they are very friendly and make sure you're comfortable. Parking spaces are available just seconds away by foot in The Square. The kitchen includes a stove, oven, microwave, and refrigerator, plenty of supplies to cook if you want to. I'm lazy and don't cook when I visit, and there's plenty of local options for meals, including yummy take-out fish and chips, or chinese food to eat in the flat. Kington itself is lovely, with two butchers shops, several local restaurants and pubs, and The Border Bean coffee shop which has excellent sandwhiches and soups, and delicious homemade deserts. My visits to Kington are to take care of my Mum, who is in a wheelchair. The Kington community is always kind and helpful as I wheel her around the shops. I recommend the School Room to anyone staying in Kington, and recommend Kington to anyone interested in staying in the area.

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• Angela - Verified booking

  I travel a lot and use Sykes cottages and other hotels and cottages frequently, but I have never had to leave a bad review as I need to on this occasion.

  I found the cottage owners unfriendly and difficult to get hold of. I had to contact Sykes twice to complain and resolve issues. On arriving at the property it was not clean and I have photos of pubic hair left in the shower soap dish, food left in the fridge, dirty grill pan etc. The sofa is very uncomfortable as it sinks right down so far that I had to put two pillows under the seat to avoid getting chronic back pain. The floorboards creak loudly when you walk about and using the cold tap makes a whooshing sound, neither of which bothered me but obviously annoyed the owners who live upstairs who started deliberately making noise and banging above me whenever I used the kitchen. I have recordings of this on my laptop. The advertisement is misleading as the pictures show just five steps to go up to reach the property but you have to go up those steps, down a long corridor through another outside door, down some more steps round across another path and up a load more steps to reach the actual property. This wasn't too bad in daylight but I hurt my foot slipping down a step I couldn't see when it was dark one early evening. This property wouldn't be suitable for people with mobility issues. That said, the Brecon Beacons were beautiful and the mountains, lakes and waterfalls well worth a visit. It's quiet this time of the year and the mountains had snow on them which added to the breathtaking views.

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• Betsy - Verified booking

  The property was lovely and met the description, My husband felt it would have been nice to have access to a free view tv box, there was a DVD player but we could not locate any DVDs?

  I would have liked a second key. Information on locally known places to visit would have been nice there is usually a visitors book and people make suggestions like the best local pubs for dinner. There was an excellent pub nearby called The Swan. We did not see the owner which we thought was unusual but they kindly left their mobile number and made phone contact with us about key collection . Parking was easy on the local square - we did hear there may be charges to park there in future? Local shops opening was a bit hit and miss the tourist information was never open I appreciate its difficult when staffed by volunteers - There was a bottle of wine and biscuits on arrival that was very kind. I have a disability and found the mats on the hardwood floor slippery but it was fine I just moved them, we appreciated being able to turn the heating on ourselves if it was cold. My husband thought the towel rail had a bit broken off? Some warning on not to follow your TOM TOM and stay on main roads I think is advisable we had to revert to old fashioned menthods of stopping and asking for directions

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• Patricia - Verified booking

  We had a really lovely break, the area is gorgeous.

  The property is spacious, comfortable and airy. It is in the village but is not noisy. It is open plan/studio (apart from the bathroom) so is ideal for a couple. The owner was very friendly and there was a nice welcome pack which we enjoyed. The kitchen has enough crockery etc to be able to self cater. The fridge had an ice box freezer compartment, but there are some very nice food shops very close by, with two convenience shops for the last minute things in the evening, and a reasonable sized co-op the other side of the village but still walkable. There were pubs and takeaways too so food was very easy. The nearby car park was very busy on the Friday and Saturday evenings, it also services the local residents and the pub restaurant so I would recommend getting back early on those evenings. It was lovely to see such a vibrant village in a great area. Fabulous for walkers.

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• Peter - Verified booking

  The Schoolroom was a sheer delight, for two; we spent Christmas at this lovely historic border town in England but only a stone's throw from Wales with brecon beacons, ludlow, black and white villages and gorgeous elan valley very near.

  The historic house was great with views on clear days to bradnor hill, Well equipped (except freezer) with good tv with sky and wide range of books. Owners very friendly and even put up christmas tree and fairy lights, Well stocked coop and excellent nisa short walk down one of the many hilly footways, away from traffic, in this stone built village. We are entranced by the marches this is our sixtieth week spent here in the last 45 years. Mr Lewis the butcher sells super pies We discovered a Victorian local woman (Ella Leather of Weobley) had collected wax cyclinder recordings in the 1900s of herefordshire folk tunes and carols for Cecil Sharp's English Folk Song Society, two of which RVW transcribed as part of his fantastia on christmas carols in 1912. We listened while there on the pc - magical.

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