Dog Friendly Gloucestershire Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Nick - Verified booking

  Our stay at Jacdaw Cottage was wonderful!

  The hosts decorated the house beautifully for the Christmas season, and we were welcomed to a clean and cosy home. The property was furnished with stylish and original features, and we found the beds, sofa, and chairs to be extremely comfortable. The hosts were very generous in leaving us a Pannetone, juice, and fruits as a welcoming treat. The warmth of the house and the logs provided for the fireplace made the Christmas feel even more special. The kitchen had everything we needed for our short trip, and we were able to cook a delicious Christmas meal using the oven. The bathroom was also completed to a high standard and had a lovely rainfall-style shower head. The bathroom is the only bathroom, which is shared among all guests. The property can comfortably accommodate four people and a dog. The car parking space was also very convenient, and we were able to park our small MPV with ease. Previous reviews have commented on the parking and we had no issues with this. We found it easier to reverse down the very quiet T road and parking in the space. Otherwise, if you aren't a confident parker, you can park on the main road and it is a 20-second walk to the property, down the slope. The village of Blockley is picturesque and typical Cotswold look and stone properties. The village has two pubs, a small café, and an excellent shop that sells local food items. We particularly enjoyed visiting the Great Western Arms (a less than 2 min walk from Jacdaw cottage), which is dog friendly and had a great selection of food and drinks and very friendly, welcoming staff. Overall, we had a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas stay at Jacdaw Cottage, and we highly recommend it to anyone visiting the area. We would happily and look forward to booking this beautiful cottage again.

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• Rob - Verified booking

  This is a beautiful, mostly comfortable cottage.

  The beds were comfortable. The sofas and armchairs were comfortable. The bathroom was spacious and had a good-sized shower cubible with good water pressure. Wifi coverage in the house was good. The fridge is only a small larder fridge, so don't buy too much food. We stayed here for a week in January and found the house quite cold even with all of the electric heaters switched on. We definitely needed to put the fire on. A basket was full of logs when we arrived, which was enough for fires on two afternoons - although we were not supplied with any fire lighters so had to go buy our own. Many cottages provide a welcome pack of say a pint of milk and a pack of biscuits, but none was provided here - so make sure you bring whatever you need to make a tea or coffee. Most cottages have instructions on recycling, but there were none here. I would have liked instructions in the manual on recycling. I did have a question for the company that manages the cottage: there's a name and mobile phone number prominently displayed in the cottage. I texted the number on Saturday and had yet to receive a reply 6 days later - so I was disappointed by the customer service provided by the company that manages the cottage. However, the property itself was clean and comfortable. The local pub was buzzy and had a simple but good menu. The local cafe was dog friendly downstairs. The NISA shop next door to the cafe had a decent range of products at reasonable prices, too. Overall, we enjoyed our trip very much.

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• Sally - Verified booking

  We absolutely loved our stay in The Annexe.

  Came for 4 nights with just me, 2 teenagers and the dog in a fairly rainy week, so was slightly nervous about keeping them all entertained and happy - but needn't have worried! The house was immaculately clean (and I mean, totally, utterly, spotless clean) and we couldn't have asked for better, more modern and comfortable facilities (my first time cooking on an induction hob - worked a treat!!). The lovely owners even provided us with a home-baked cake and cookies - they didn't last long with the teenagers in the house! Wi-Fi had a super strong signal, so we were able to stream movies, play games on our devices etc with no problems (essential with 2 teenagers in tow!). Plenty of piping hot water for showers or a bath, too. The beautiful but also wildlife-friendly garden and views from The Annexe were magnificent - I had a real stinker of a cold on our holiday, so spent a lot of time happily sat in the reclining lounge chairs reading and watching the birds coming to the feeders out the window. The location was perfect for a big range of activities too - we went to Go Ape, Goodrich Castle, Symonds Yat and the Taurus Crafts shops & cafe, but saw many other places we would've loved to explore if we'd had a longer stay. All were dog-friendly and lovely places to go (essential as my dog has separation anxiety so has to come everywhere with me). We loved our break in The Annexe and couldn't recommend it more highly as a place to stay.

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• John - Verified booking

  Cosy little cottage, just perfect for a short break.

  There were just two of us but would be quite small for four adults although certainly both double bedrooms were very pleasant and the whole property is very well presented. Well equipped kitchen with nice welcome with milk, tea and coffee, crisps, biscuits and chocolates. Lovely and warm (it was November) and super cosy with wood burner in the evening in the comfortable sitting room. Super little bathroom with excellent hot shower. Good Wi Fi as you would expect for a small place. Wasn’t quite sure where to put recyclable waste so it would be helpful to leave some instructions for bottles and cans, paper and food waste etc. Other reviewers have quite rightly commented on the parking which is basically impossible, not just the size of the spot but the very steep slope (prob about 1:3) leading down. Top tip is don’t even try to drive down to the cottage but park on Station Road as it’s only 20 yards or so to walk down. However Blockley is a lovely village, the food at the local pub (The Great Western Arms) was excellent. Overall a very good place.

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• Stephane - Verified booking

  Lovely cottage in the Cotswold.

  Very nice location in Blockley, close to the village center, few meters from the pub. Village in the north of Cotswold not far from the other nice historic villages. The cottage is confortable, and calm. A beat cold the first two days, and then OK. The beds are very confortable, and the rooms a good size. The equipment of the cottage are minimalist and low quality (Ikea for most of them). Only 4 forks, 4 plates, ... which oblige to run the washing machine after each meal. Owner let logs for 2 days only and then recommend to buy more, Taking into account the price of the rent, it would have been expected to leave more logs (even if logs are cheap). Character cottages has a nice choice of cottages, but the client service support is very poor, and for some period of time outsourced to another company very unprofessional. They did not recognized the reservation number communicated by Character cottages, and stated that they have "+ 20 cottages with the same name" ?! it took 10mn to find my reservation.

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