Villas In Southwold

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Mr Robertson - Verified booking

  The property was a delight from the moment we arrived until we left. Amory House is located on the High Street in Southwold within a 5 minute walk of the beach. As part of that walk you pass all the shops you need to visit during your holiday as well as at least two pubs,The Lord Nelson and Red Lion, both of which are also worth visiting! On entering the house you get the immediate impression that the owners have spent a lot of time and effort making it feel homely. One of the sitting rooms has a lovely log fire and TV that everyone can gather round in the evening. The second acted as a room of solitude for those who wanted to read or do their own thing. The kitchen is well equipped and the large wooden table is a focus for meals but also simply sitting around and chatting. The bedrooms were all beautifully prepared - but as always first come gets the choice of which bedroom they prefer - an upstairs one looking out over the High Street or one of the two ground floor bedrooms which looks out over a lovely back garden. The garden is one of the gems of the property! The seats are strategically placed so that you can sit in the sun, without a wind, drinking your morning coffee or equally in the seats at the top of the garden and get the late afternoon and evening sun. There is also a wooden framed gazebo at the back garden which you can open up if the weather is sunny and warm of zip up and sit outside protected from any rain - not that we saw any during our stay! The weather was beautiful and we had a terrific week which involved various activities including hiring bikes to see the local countryside, some sea fishing, various walks and of course visiting local pubs! The restaurants hadn't yet been allowed to open up post lockdown but we had a lot of enjoyment from cooking our own meals in the lovely kitchen. Fish, which is landed daily at Southwold harbour, was simply a delight to prepare and eat. Finally, the owners were that great combination of accessible if needed but never visible throughout our stay. Anneli came by on the first day to welcome us and make sure everything was in order, leave us her contact details and assure us we were free to contact her if required, and then checking in with us at the end of our vacation. It really was a pleasure to stay at Amory House. Not only would we all recommend it, we'd all go back for another holiday!!

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• Lisa - Verified booking

  This is the second time we have stayed at Teepee.

  Lovely cottage so well furnished and clean, welcome pack fab. We did experience issues this year with the key safe , took 5 of us half an hour to get the key then we couldn’t get it to open again! We use key safes on our rental properties so are familiar with how they work! The front door also stuck and I had to get my children to open the lounge window and I climbed through it! I went to Suffolk secrets on Monday and the maintenance rang me said they would speak to the owner and look into it then nothing! I rang 4 times but no call back. I then got an email asking feedback on resolving the issue! I said they hadn’t and someone rang me saying maintenance on way around this was thurs eve and we checked out Fri am….the key was a hassle as 5 adults not always together meant massive inconvenience. Expected a better service or at least feedback to be honest

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• Ben - Verified booking

  The property was perfect for us - incredibly clean and had everything we needed.

  Huge, soft towels and very comfortable beds! Location was brilliant- just a short walk to everything. The only downside was the church bells (church is just a few doors down) that rang every hour throughout the night, every night!! On the Friday we discovered they did bell ringing practice and so they rang (very loudly) for about 2 hours solid, from 7pm to 9pm. Although they sounded lovely, this was really not ideal when trying to get two little ones to sleep. The property is absolutely wonderful and would definitely recommend- just be prepared that the windows are thin and it can be quite noisy at times. Saying that, we’d love to return in the future!

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• Ms Egerton - Verified booking

  Lavender House is situated just round the corner from the pier in Southwold. What a great location! We had a lovely sunny week there recently with three of our German Friends who flew over to stay with us(we were five mature ladies). I would say the second floor bedrooms are very small with sloping ceilings which in my opinion would only really suit children. The adults that were using them felt they were cramped. Everything else in the house was fantastic. We did experience people parking across the driveway so we couldn’t get the car out of the drive and also we couldn’t get the car in the drive when we had been out for the day.

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• David - Verified booking

  Excellent roomy house, plenty of space to escape !

  Ideally situated too, generally speaking we had no trouble parking close by with 3 cars. Nice touch got a call because there was no one in the property the night before us was ready for us to go in before heck in time. If I had a minor quibble, holiday properties tend to have a supply of 2nd hand books, puzzles or games (which were mentioned), luckily we bought our own supply. Also perhaps for people not used to the area maybe some tourist type leaflets (note no longer a Tourist Information centre in town). But we thoroughly enjoyed our stay (6 adults) and would defintely rebook (this our 2nd visit to Elkhorn).

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