Villas In Thirsk

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Elizabeth - Verified booking

  What a lovely locacation cliff cottage is in, so peaceful.

  Nice cottage and fairly comfortable with lots of space and we thoroughly enjoyed playing pool in the evenings. Showers good and WiFi fine, cottage clean and plenty of crockery. Few things that would improve it from our point of view... -Dishwasher control was broken so didn't know what setting it was on and couldn't change it. -A previous review mentioned the cooker not being clean, the top was fine but we found sticky, dirty and brown shelves and a dirty tray with sausage fat still inside on arrival. We cleaned the tray but not the shelves, only used it a couple of times. -A hair dryer would have been welcome, not expensive, unless it was missed. -A handrail at the top on the left of the stairs would have helped Dad get upstairs, there's nothing to hold onto for an older person. -A few new mattresses would be good, although ok to sleep on, springs could be felt when sitting on them. -Could do with a new tin opener. -We felt that hot water temperature needs to be increased slightly, lots of warm showers. -Pictures on website showed logs in basket but none supplied, again not expensive but would be a nice touch, we left the rest of ours for next guests. Not withstanding the above, we had a lovely time and with a few tweeks it would have been even better. Thank you.

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• Philip - Verified booking

  A really tastefully furnished cottage with all amenities you could wish for.

  There were candles throughout should you wish to create an even more cosy atmosphere. Situated within easy reach of Thirsk, Sutton Bank and beautiful walks. We drove to the coast (1hr) and to the Dales (also 1hr) on a few days so it really allows the best of both worlds. A little disappointed that after booking we were told that the garden would become shared as we wouldn't have booked this cottage had we known, but thankfully we only had neighbours for half our stay so had it to ourselves for some of the time. The second bathroom was really a cloakroom with a shower in so a little misleading, and the balcony from the bedroom was more of an external stairway down to the ground level outside. Slightly better signposting from the main road or written instructions may be of benefit but we only went wrong once! Overall one of the best kept cottages we have stayed in and I would recommend it to anyone.

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• Gordon - Verified booking

  We first booked for May and Sykes site said enclosed garden with views (no views apart from a large barn), when we got there we found it a shared garden.

  Checked the site to find, shared garden had been added. We would not have booked this site if it had stated this when first booked, also when we checked this it also said no dogs. Half mile from house to empty bins - grease on wall behind cooker - no blinds in kitchen looking straight into next door - boot room was a utility room with no boot storage or heater to dry wet gear - wet room was a loo with a shower and a hole in the plastic cladding in the shower partly used loo roll - up stairs loo again partly used, no extra loo rolls provided, no loo roll holder bath looked as though it was not cleaned and mould around bath - walls up the stairs grubby from hand marks - no hoover just a hand brush and a wet mop and bucket - no instructions for TV remote and the TV pixelling on most channels Thirsk and the area to visit is excellent, will be going back to this area, will we use Sykes!

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• Robert - Verified booking

  We enjoyed our stay at the cottage, there are a few things that I think could make things even better.

  The steps at the entry to the cottage are quite steep and on a slope, a handrail there would be really useful. One of our party actually fell off the steps at one point! There's a good selection of cutlery in the kitchen, although adding a set of kitchen tongs would be useful for cooking. It would be worth mentioning there is no shaver socket available in the cottage. We ended up buying a 2 pin adapter plug to charge toothbrushes/shavers. For the cost it would be good to have one in the cottage. The TV in the sitting room is a great size, however it seems to have a dark band across the top 1/3 of the screen. Not sure what's going on but I think it may be on it's way out. One final bit of feedback, the walls in the cottage are starting to look a bit run down. They are all quite badly marked in almost every room, a coat of paint would really smarten the place up.

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• Robert - Verified booking

  Woodside Barn is a delightful holiday base - or a relaxing hideaway, if that is what you are looking for (but you aren't in total isolation, there are adjacent properties).

  The location is very rural being in the midst of a farm estate. However, you are only 30 minutes drive from tourist hot spots - lots of heritage sites and good walking routes. The converted barn is quite modern but you need to be aware that there are quite a lot of steps within the building - so the partially sighted or just those who don't concentrate while wandering round the building need to be aware! Perhaps a few step edge colour changes would help. A lack of information regarding the heating system would have been helpful on very cold days (the heating is very good but it was set to operate at night). There were quite a lot of spiders webs too e.g. in window recesses and similar corners -- these didn't cause any problem for us but some users may well be concerned.

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