Holiday Apartments in Norfolk

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• David - Verified booking

  Any upstairs property is likely to be a bit uncomfortable in hot weather as the best can be done is to have lots of fans!

  Realistically it was a bit like being in a caravan with some space restrictions. Get the impression it used to be more popular some time ago, for the owners, whilst friendly, are perhaps a little amateur despite being in this business for a long time. Have to be confident remembering the last passing place as you travel the single-track lanes 2miles from Necton where there is a good Co-op shop and filling station. Only real problems on site were the kettle tripping the whole power system until it was replaced as there were no spare plug fuses. You need to make toast with the door open or the fire alarm goes off. Wi-Fi was perfectly OK - it just needs a quick mention in the cottage information sheets. The siting is only disappointing if you want to walk a lot as the restrictions on where you can walk because of private properties make it very difficult to work out from the maps provided in the information sheets. Endless hot water should you want it but offset by silly things: only one loo roll supplied and minimal quantities of sugar/tea/coffee like a hotel room. Comfy bed, decent shower. Compared with many Sykes Cottages we have visited, this was well down the scale, though not a disaster.

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• Michael Sadowski - Verified booking

  Light, cosy, peaceful and beautifully located. Orchard Cottage is a charming place in an absolutely excellent location. Cosy, very well equipped and very comfortably furnished with a lovely little strip of garden, we found this to be exactly the peaceful retreat we were looking for.Inside, it's light, airy and spacious. Outside it's just at the top of the lovely village of Ringstead, which has a great pub and a very well stocked local store just a short walk away so unlike some places you're not completely bound drive everywhere. Ringstead also has a lovely walk around it taking in the beautiful Ringstead Downs and chalk pit.Hunstanton is only a short drive away, as are the excellent Thornham Deli and Drove Orchards farm shop. Beautiful beaches at Holme, Hunstanton and Titchwell are all within about 10 minutes by car and there are plenty of other beautiful places less than 30 minutes away along the coast.Honestly there's really nothing to fault this place for - I particularly loved the kitchen, which is very well equipped with a great fan oven, and the delightful little dining room facing out into the garden where we ate all our meals. Definitely hope we'll come again soon!

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• Michael - Verified booking

  The property was clean and well maintained.

  In a nice setting in a rural location but access to well stocked Coop, fuel and Costa close by. We used it as a base to travel from and as such racked up some miles as there is not too much close by, but it suited us. It has character, but also a well equiped modern kitchen for eating in. I found the settee comfortable for evenings in, but the bed somewhat firm and not very comfortable for my liking. The breakfast bar isn't great if you are the person on the right under the sloping ceiling. Be prepared to accept that you will almost certainly crack your head against the ceiling a few times during your stay as you go into the bedroom! Final point is that the WiFi really is painfully slow. I mean pre bradband dial up slow! It regulalrly cuts out making research and booking visits & events, or even just keeping up with emails very difficult and infuriating. This really needs sorting as in the modern world it does detract from the visitor experience. Most would rather pay a little more for good broadband and the ability to stream to phone, TV etc. DVD's no longer cut it!

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• John Walker - Verified booking

  Delightfully refurbished cottage - to a very high spec - in a great near-coastal Norfolk village. Ringstead is a lovely North Norfolk village, and this cottage is well situated for the local very good gastropub/gin palace (!) and extensive, quirky and well-stocked local shop. The furnishings are to a very high spec - but not off-putting, so that you fear to tread for fearing of damaging things! It is very comfortable and well stocked with kitchen equipment and goods, as well as high quality TV/wi-fi/radio/DVD player etc. The beds are very comfortable, the bathroom a delight. The property's very thick walls are great sound barriers and heat retainers. The cottage is very dog friendly and is within very short distances of fantastic beaches for dogs at Old Hunstanton and Holkham. All in all, a lovely short stay in a delightful, well furnished and greatly positioned, renovated farm cottage on the North Norfolk coast.

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• Lynn Voller - Verified booking

  A Little Gem!We stayed at Orchard Cottage for 3 days and wished it was for longer! The cottage is beautiful! The décor and furnishings are incredible. The attention to detail is second to none. You feel at home as soon as you walk through the front door, and the cottage is so cosy when the log burning fire is on. The local pub, The Gin Trap Inn is a 10 minute walk away and serves great food and yummy gin. I did try and book Orchard Cottage for my birthday weekend next year, however at that time of year it is a minimum of 7 nights stay as it is half term which is understandable. You will be hard pushed to find somewhere else with the high level of décor and furnishings............I have looked and cannot find anything better as yet! :0)

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