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per nightCatherine - Verified booking
Stayed for one week in Benfield with parents and our toddler.
We SO wanted to love this place after the great reviews on here and the pretty pictures. However, as charming as the cottage was, we couldnât help but feel a little disappointed with a few elements. Letâs start with the good stuff. As I said, the cottage is utterly charming and the rural decor makes it welcoming and cosy. The downstairs space is great â it was nice to have âzonesâ, so in a big group you can separate off either into the front room, the dining area or the conservatory. Theyâre connected enough to not be isolating, so you can still chat from each room, but youâre not all cooped up in one communal area. The beds were really comfortable. As other reviews have commented, the road is busy and noisy, making it impossible to open the windows on a hot evening, but with some ear plugs, the less light sleepers among us had a good nightâs sleep. The location was perfect for enjoying the many delights the Cotswolds has to offer. We did way more than we anticipated because there was so much on the doorstep and Stow-on-the-Wold itself is gorgeous, with lots of pretty little shops and some great pubs. On the downside, the courtyard area was unclean. Not sure when it was last swept, but the paving was dirty and the bench and cushions were filthy - making it pretty unappealing to sit out there. Itâs such a shame because it could be a really great addition to the house, but at the moment itâs a real waste of the space. A large chunk of it is taken up by the Wheelie bin, which itself wasnât quite big enough for a weekâs worth of rubbish for a group of seven. Appreciate space is limited, but it couldâve been better organised. Maybe some housing around the bin. There was also no recycling bin, so everything ended up in one place. We didnât expect there to be an Aga and no traditional oven (thereâs a microwave, and mini oven in the pantry). While it was very beautiful, we had to rethink our evening meals somewhat and it made the downstairs area very hot on a warm summerâs day (itâs not advisable to turn off as it takes such a long time to heat up again). There was a wide array of crockery, utensils and cookware in the kitchen, but quite a few hadnât been washed properly. The bathroom on the first floor has a beautiful roll top bath, but only a handheld shower head with no curtain or screen. So no matter how careful you were, the bathroom got soaked with water splashing either off the bath or your body. The bathroom on the second floor had such a low wattage bulb in it, we had to keep the door open to see what we were doing. We had a good experience with the owner - very prompt responses - and we were very grateful to be allowed to check in an hour early, but on the whole the cottage itself is currently a bit disappointing in places.
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Caroline - Verified booking
I start this review by saying that we have stayed with Sykes before, but did not find this experience as good as previously.
The positives are that Blockley is a great base from which to explore the Cotswolds. We were lucky with the weather and spent most of our time outside. The description of the cottage is accurate, but the stairs to the 2nd floor are a challenge for anyone who is not agile. It would be a good idea to put a strip of anti-slip material on the bottom step as it is easy to miss it - particularly at night. Two of us did! The garden is lovely and a real bonus. The negatives are the late arrival time and the fact that there was no evidence of an intensive clean. Like other reviewers we found the house dusty - particularly the bedrooms - and in the lower ground floor, some of the surfaces had clearly not been wiped over as there were marks and stickiness. We started our stay by doing some cleaning and trust me, we are not Kim and Aggie who hunt out dirtâ¦.We found it disappointing that this had not been attended to given the recent comments of other reviewers. The late arrival time is not sustainable as you effectively lose the first day of your holiday. The 2 hours you would normally get from a 4pm arrival really does make a difference. Despite this, we like Blockley and will be returning to the cottage in September, but sincerely hope that we will be able to arrive for 4pm and that the cottage will have been cleaned. The stay would be better with a few matters attended to. A better vacuum cleaner is essential if you want guests to keep the cottage clean. Waste paper baskets in all rooms would be helpful, to avoid having to bring rubbish down to the LGF. The âsharpâ knives were very blunt and a wider range of knives would be great. An apron in the kitchen could be provided. I say all this because Throwers Cottage could be a really great place to stay with these few matters addressed and they would not be costly to deal with.
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Sue - Verified booking
So here is the positives- the building, stone floors, beams, pieces of beautiful furniture Negative that really ruined our holiday.
Before we went and due to finances we planned to eat in most of the time. My husband has asthma and uses an inhaler, as soon as we arrived and opened the door there was a really overpowering smell of air freshener. There was numerous bottles of liquid air freshener containing the bamboo sticks, the smell was so strong and sweet that you could taste it when you was drinking. I removed numerous bottles, some even in plant pots of flowers. My husband really suffered with his breathing and used his inhaler several times a day. As we have been going to the cotswolds for 20 years this was supposed to be a restful time spent in the cottage but due to the smell even when I had moved the airfreshners outside we had to spend as much time as possible out of the cottage, which also meant eating out every night which isnât what we wanted to do. Even though I moved them outside the yard area is very small so even when I had shut the door you could still smell them. Iâm sure some more must have been buried in the house that I couldnât find A few other small things there is that much stuff in the cottage you really lose the beauty of it itâs as if there has been a need to fill every space with something. There is well over 20 spoons, knifes and forks, lost count of how many bowls and coffee pots, what this also did was leave lack of space should you want to food shop and store I contacted Sykes and they was very good and offered to send someone round but there wasnât anything they could do that I hadnât Such a shame our holiday was ruined
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Catherine - Verified booking
We were dismayed with the late check-in time, however, as the reason given for this was to ensure that a full 'Covid' clean could be carried out, we were expecting the cottage to be in pristine condition upon arrival.
However, we arrived to find the bin in the kitchen full of rubbish and some of the mugs were not cleaned properly, there was also a lot of dust and fluff in corners and under furniture, and a used tissue down the side of the sofa. We also had to try and find a bulb for one of the bedside lamps that wasn't working - it would be useful if these minor things could be checked prior to arrival as they make such a difference and are often overlooked. Aside from this, the facilities were excellent and the cottage was very comfortable in a fantasic location. Blockley Village is a real gem, a very quiet spot in the heart of the Cotswolds. A note on using next door's garden as an entrance to the cottage - it would be good if this was highlighted more with maybe a laminated notice put on the gate. We brought our dog and felt uncomfortable just walking through the neighbour's garden (this would be worse doing this during winter when it's dark). We felt we should knock on their door first, however there was no answer.
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Jayne - Verified booking
A wonderful home from home.
Fabulous quirky tardis of a Cotswold cottage with literally everything provided. Our favourite room was the sun room with the day bed, such a brilliant idea. Beds super comfy (we loved the bedroom curtains too!) and surprisingly quiet even tho itâs on the main street and the town clock chimes every hour which we soon got used to. Parking was easy further down the street (time restricted in the white boxes) and so many quality eateries literally on the doorstep. Just a couple of things I think the listing should be clearer about-two sets of steep, windy but fairly short stairs to bedrooms, my parents are both 80 and were v grateful for the downstairs bathroom, and the outside area is literally postage stamp sized, not suitable for doggy âexerciseâ but neither points really detracted from our week there. We also hid a few of the strong smelling diffusers as I donât like them around dogs, but other than that, we absolutely recommend Benfield! Thank you Lindy for your beautiful home.
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