Dog Friendly Cottages in Halesworth

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Mr Graham Rock - Verified booking

  Nice house, well furnished (tired in places) and convenient location for travelling around. Brilliant garden for the dogs to charge around. The house was however somewhat personal and the water pressure in both bathrooms was weak. An old greenhouse, and a pile of metal and wood in the garden should really be removed for safety purposes: there is a warning. Path behind house leads to a little woodland area, and then onto town, but runs past actively used fields for cows, so not really convenient to allow dogs off their leads. Another fair dog walk across the road (opposite the garden centre) leading to The Orchard was good, but you have to cut across a quite road within a housing area so again a limitation for dogs off leads, That said, Dunwich Forest wasn't far away, but we did see an adder whilst there so be careful. Overall, would we recommend and consider going again - yes. Note: coming from Halesworth, the house is on the right with a little lay by in front... the house name is covered up... if you get to the garage, turnaround!

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• Christine - Verified booking

  A good base for exploring Suffolk & nearby is Halesworth - a pretty market town with a variety of independent shops & eateries plus a pleasant riverside walk.

  The ‘cottage’ adjoins the owners’ house and Jacqui came round to welcome us on the first day with homemade jam. A welcome pack was provided. The property is a listed building and it has been sympathetically restored whilst including modern comforts. There’s an area outside the cottage designated for the use of guests during their stay, part of much larger communal gardens, but it isn’t obvious from the property description that it is not entirely enclosed and close to a very busy A road. Also the communal gardens have ponds & hidden ditches (part of a moat). The owners’ dog and dogs staying at the other holiday cottages share the gardens. We were disappointed that we couldn’t enjoy sitting out in ‘our’ garden with our dogs off their leads. If you have children they would also need to be supervised. If we didn’t have the dogs with us we would have had a more enjoyable stay.

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• Dr Phipps - Verified booking

  Willow House was perfect for our family get together. There is plenty of space, all the bedrooms are large, the kitchen and table provide a good focal point for family meals, and the other rooms give enough space to find a quiet corner. It is well equipped and the house folder contains info on everything we needed. The garden is very big and was great for our three dogs under supervision - it is not fully secure for some over-inquisitive dogs! The location is very good. I don't drive. I could walk into Halesworth along the road or the disused railway footpath that runs along the back of the house in about 15 - 20 minutes. Also easily walkable to and from the station. Nearer is an excellent well stocked farm shop. I would recommend for big groups and may return myself.

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• Debbie - Verified booking

  The house is lovely.

  The facilities were clean and it was very comfortable. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay. I have some feedback though. 1. The smell downstairs was awful. It hit us the moment we walked in and seemed to emanate from the cupboard on the far right in the kitchen. It really was most off putting and quite vile. 2. As it’s quite likely that you will be having largish parties to stay, larger cooking vessels would be great to have. We had to buy a couple of large disposable roasting tins. However the second point is minor in comparison to the dreadful smell. Perhaps leaving some more scented candles/diffusers might help if it can’t get sorted. All that said though, we loved cottage, enjoyed reading about its history and had a very lovely time so thank you.

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• Tracy - Verified booking

  This is a beautiful period property.

  The owners were very welcoming, came to check we was OK, lovey welcome pack, we could make a cup of tea and have a biscuit before we unloaded the car. The open fire was all made up ready to light later that evening. Everything is there that you need. Beds very comfortable and handy with the upstairs toilet. We would come back again but in one of the other properties. We did read about the steep staircase, but by the end of the week it was just a bit to much for us oldies!!, but for younger people it's ok. A few little things that the owners are getting round to is the huge pot holes in the drive and the fishing pond needs some attention. But other than that a lovely, relaxing holiday was had. Look forward to seeing the owners again in the future.

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