Devon Cottages with Swimming Pools

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Lia - Verified booking

  Never have we come back from a self catering cottage so fully rested and relaxed with our batteries fully recharged.

  Wood View Cottage is a little piece of tranquil heaven which, upon arrival, immediately puts you at ease and lets you know you are going to have a wonderful stay and that feeling just gets better with each passing day! We were so sad to be going home and usually we can't wait to get back to our own beds! The cottage is spotlessly clean, spacious and very comfortable. The living room has a choice of a large snuggly corner sofa and occasional chairs which are equally as comfy. The kitchen is huge and so well equipped with literally everything you could possibly need during your stay (even a slow cooker in the cupboard!) and has lots of free cupboard space and worktop space for your things. The beds are the comfiest we have ever stayed in which meant we slept extremely well every night. The swimming pool was wonderful and we used it every day. Having private use of it during the day was fabulous and we had brilliant fun in it. There is a changing room with toilet and shower in the pool room which was very convenient as was having access to the pool room from the hallway of the cottage which we loved. The games room is an absolute gem too - we took our drinks in there of an evening and played pool, darts and ring toss to our hearts content! Things did get quite competitive and by the end of the week our children were regularly beating us at the pool table! The gardens all around the cottage are just beautiful, but especially the huge walled garden with its magnificent and very old pine tree and all of the beautiful and carefully looked after plants, shrubs and flowers. The views are far reaching and spectacular as are the sunrises and sunsets. Finally, Carole and Peter were just lovely - they were very discreet and were happy to just leave us to enjoy our holiday but they were easily available and approachable if we had any questions or wanted to make use of their local knowledge. Thank you for sharing this amazingly quiet and peaceful part of Devon with us. Such lovely people, such a lovely cottage, such a lovely swimming pool, such a lovely games room and such lovely gardens....we cannot wait to come back!.

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• Tim - Verified booking

  We have stayed at several of the Burgh Island Causeway apartments - this was the first time at no.

  23. Generally speaking, we had a lovely time in our favourite part of the world. Helpful Holidays as usual lived up to their name. The following are hopefully constructive comments about the apartment. * Broadband. This is woefully inadequate... we know from other apartments stays that a perfectly usable broadband service is available. It costs no more than the older services as in place at no.23. * Washer-drier. When in drying mode the unit makes a clunk every 14s that resonates around the apartment, making it unusable whilst we were there. * The fridges both have doors that do not shut properly without a firm shove - including the freezer compartment door. This meant a number of items of food had to be discarded. * There are at least two flickering bulbs around the flat - these need replacing. * There was no hand soap in the property. * The second bathroom has no towel rail - the towels at the end of the week were fairly unusable as a result. * Cleanliness - we found bits of sweetcorn on the floor of the 2nd bedroom. This doesn't bode well for how well the place had been cleaned before our arrival - a worry given the current emphasis on keeping things clean. A final note was that the cleaner turned up at around 9:15 on our day of departure and lingered in the hallway. She was also disparaging to my wife. We have always left the apartments we have stayed in as clean and orderly as we found them. We didn't need this rudeness on our final day. We had to ask her to stand outside until we left at 9:50.

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• Jeffrey - Verified booking

  Things people look for in their holiday accommodation include comfortable beds, plenty of hot water for showers and baths, and fast and reliable wifi.

  This apartment didn’t offer any of these. As most other reviews have mentioned the apartment does offer an amazing front row seat to views of the sea and Burgh Island and is just steps away from the beach. The kitchen is well appointed with modern appliances and all the “stuff” that’s needed to self cater. But, for us, good views didn’t compensate for the fact that the beds were uncomfortably soft, we were not able to take a hot shower, and the internet was abysmal. The mattress and bedding made sleeping unpleasant. The mattresses and pillows felt very used and the fitted sheets were “piled” and quite uncomfortable to sleep on. No matter what we tried with using the hot water “boost” button, the shower went cold just after a few seconds, as such we had to resort to taking showers in the pool changing room. The internet speed varied from an extremely slow 500 kbps to a very slow 1.3 mbps. As there is little to no cell service for Three or O2 in that area, the slow internet impacted communication with family via WhatsApp or wifi calling. It also made watching shows on Netflix or freeview frustrating by periodically having to wait for the TV catch-up downloading a programme . (I would recommend downloading any shows you want to watch on your laptop before you arrive.) I have read other reviews dating back to early last year that mention the issues with the beds and Internet and, for the money it costs to stay there, I would expect something to have been done about them.

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• Jamie - Verified booking

  Getting to that location through long single lane roads with very few passing spaces for miles is a nightmare specially when we got stuck with a number of cars in both directions several times.

  There was no fan in the apartment we were dying in the heat in July. The flat above us they had ceiling fans but we had nothing. One of the patio doors did not open at all - the handles for the windows and patio doors were very hard to open and close. They need renovation/replacing. Only 3 dishwasher tablets for 6 people for a week was not enough given we were in the middle of somewhere with very difficult road access to shops. Or at least provide more mugs. On arrival one of the bathrooms had no working light - the light pull cord was gone. Why do the bathrooms have pull cords rather than a normal switch. So with 6 of us in the flat from Saturday we were not able to use one of the bathrooms until it was fixed on Tuesday after chasing it to be fixed asap. Lovely swimming pool and nice beach and loved the fact we could just go from our patio area to the swimming pool….but would not stay here again. We were all traumatised by the route to get in and out of this place. Not worth it.

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• Robert - Verified booking

  We had a wonderful stay at Wood View.

  The property is set in beautiful gardens and is very secluded. The cottage is spacious, has a good layout and is well equipped. Our daughter loved the upstairs bedroom with the cabin beds. The bed in the main bedroom was comfortable. Having the private pool available all day was amazing. The pool was slightly on the cool side for our young baby but our 6 year old was fine. Our daughter also loved the games room and kept her occupied playing pool and monopoly. The bathroom was slightly dated and the sofas were a bit soft, but minor issues. Local roads are single track with passing points - wise to use Satnav and familiarise before travelling as some may find it difficult to locate. The cottage is in close proximity to Woodlands Family Theme Park (which was great), Dartmouth, and local beaches. I would recommend Wood View and definitely stay again.

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