“Review
We had a great time here!”
We stopped for three nights over the new year period. The cottage is really cosy, even more so as the xmas decorations were still up when we were there, which was a nice festive touch. The property itself is a bit top heavy. Downstairs you have a cosy living, dining kitchen which includes under floor heating, upstairs is much bigger as it stretches over next doors driveway/shared walkway.
The kitchen is fully stocked with the usual kitchen crockery but has lots of extras like waffle maker, slow cooker and electric whisk. It also had phone chargers, hand wash, dish soap, dishwasher tabs, tea towels, foil & clingfilm. As well as staples such as salt, pepper & vinegar. Also some nice welcoming shortbread and hot chocolate!!
The main bedroom has a vaulted ceiling, wood burning stove and plenty of drawers/wardrobe space. Very spacious relaxing room.
The bathroom has good supplies: body wash, bath foam, hand creme & body crème. The bath is huge and great for soaking.
We visited the Three Grey Hounds (local pub) on NYE, which is a nice place and very reasonably priced. Other than the pub there’s not much else in Great Asby so we’re glad we brought ample supplies of food / drink and a couple of bags of logs as there’s no shops in the immediate vicinity.
A few minor things that slightly let the place down for us:
- when we arrived there were three dog poos in the backyard. One of my dogs unfortunately stood in one, which wasn’t a great arrival
- my dog knocked a toy ball under the couch, when we fished it out it was absolutely caked in dust and hair, think it needs a good hoovering under there
- I’m not a tall guy but even I had to duck down to see in the bathroom mirror. It’d be good if it could be moved up the wall a few inches
Other than the above, we really enjoyed our stay and would happily return for a quiet get away. We’d like to visit in the summer months as I imagine it’s nice to sit out by the river in the sun.
Thank you for your comments. I’m sorry about the mess in the garden. We try to leave poo bags for guests but sometimes they get missed and with it being dark early, our cleaner must have missed them. We will take this up with them along with the dust under the sofa.
We hope you will visit again in the summer months but please be aware that the stream outside the house sometimes dries up in dry weather. The spring in the centre of the village provides permanent water all year around but it is a run-off stream from the hills above at our point. Being Cumbria, you never know. It can change from bone dry to a metre deep and back again during the course of a week no matter what the month.
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