Dog Friendly Thirsk Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Lorna - Verified booking

  The description doesn't do this cottage justice.

  It's a perfect location for walking the Cleveland Way and visiting the gems that are dotted across the west of the North Yorkshire Moors all the way to the East Coast. The cottage itself is on a farm run by delightful and welcoming people who were very understanding about our pet number mix-up, and allowed us to take two dogs. If you're looking for 'away from it all' and spectacular views, this is the place to go. It's a very warm and comfortable cottage with every possible need covered. We tried very hard to think what else we might want, but could only come up with a second lavatory and a slotted spoon! There was even a collection of OS maps with walks highlighted. Helmsley is a few miles away and is a lovely little town which welcomes dogs in almost every shop and eatery, with 3 lovely pubs. The castle and it's surrounding area is well worth visiting, and the walk to Rivaulx is wonderful. The Abbey is another incredible site to visit. Going in the opposite direction from the cottage, the Cleveland Way has a good stopping point at East Paradise Farm's tea rooms which has fabulous home made cakes and serves savoury meals too. We can't wait to go back and have already booked to go in 4 months' time.

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• Wally - Verified booking

  A lovely cottage in a semi-remote location, but with easy access to Helmsley & beyond.

  On arrival the cottage was spotless but no welcoming tea & biscuits/cake, not an essential but always a nice touch. Facilities excellent especially in the kitchen department whilst WiFi was excellent [fast acting & strong signal]. Perhaps the only facility that caused concern was the shower over the bath which was an accident waiting to happen, there were no hand holds to assist getting in or especially, getting out, and anyone with short legs was in for a challenge. A small irritant was the 9.00am departure which when you only live 50 mile away seemed a little unnecessary. So much so that we wouldn't again book any cottage with Sykes with that sort of early departure time.

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• Kathy - Verified booking

  The cottage is well equipped.

  The beds are very comfortable The location is perfect Nice and warm However If your dog doesn't like cats it's not the property for you.we couldn't spend any time outside as the cat was always outside the cottage. The bathroom needs a complete refit. Shower curtains inn 2024!?! It should be highlighted that the beams are very low. Finally we knew it was a 9.00 departure which except for during Covid is now unusual and harsh but to receive a text the night before we left not only reminding us but also underlining it. I may be elderly but I'm not senile. Very rude! Needles to say we won't be returning.

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• Jacqueline - Verified booking

  A lovely cottage set on a working farm, so there was the expected farm noises (could be kind of early!

  ) but otherwise a really peaceful holiday. The cottage was well equipped and very comfortable, and contained everything we needed to self cater, not being great on eating out. We were there with our black labrador, who got on well with the resident dogs. I would note there is no secure garden (kind of obvious from the photos on the page) and we took a stake out and long line just in case, but mostly this wasn't needed, she stuck with us. The area around the cottage and North Yorkshire generally we found to be really dog friendly, which made the holiday for us.

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• Kelvin - Verified booking

  We had a lovely time at Weathercote cottage.

  The cottage was very very clean & comfortable. The owners of the farm were very nice and very helpful. There are fresh eggs available, which I recommend. If you need grocery shopping then Thirsk is not too far away and the same with Helmsley, but be warned it can be busy! We are frequent visitors to the area and like Whitby, Filey, Bridlington & Pickering with it's wonderful railway. I took quite a few photos during our stay at the cottage, but sadly there is no where to share visitors photographs here. Maybe a feature Sykes could add.

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