QUALITY BARN CONVERSION IN BEAUTIFUL RURAL SURROUNDINGS

We had a great week at the barn with our 4 children and 2 friends; plenty of space for 8 of us! The barn certainly has the wow factor and we did have problems deciding on who should have the master bedroom! The kitchen is well equipped and the welcome pack is brilliant as is the drinks basket - the kids loved the hot chocolate. We did find that the master bed mattress does have some 'roll together' and the lack of curtains or blinds at the top 3 windows does allow quite a bit of light in.

Apart from this though, the week was very enjoyable and the views from the barn are fantastic as well as the ever present birds in the garden - lots of bird seed needed! This was a daily job for our daughter.

The barn is ideally located for visiting all the local attractions - Puzzlewood, Amazing Hedges and Clearwell Caves. We spent many a day going in and out of Wales to Herefordshire and Gloucestershire! We visited Dewstow Hidden Gardens and Grottos on our last day on route back to Devon - definitely worth a visit, absolutely stunning. It was disappointing that the Dean Forest Railway wasn't running during our week and also the Perrygrove Railway was shut too as it wasn't half term locally.

Lots of great historic places to visit - Tintern Abbey, Hereford Cathedral, Raglan Castle and Abergavenny Museum and Castle.

The added bonus for us was the dry weather - drove back home to pouring rain!!

Thank you to Claire and Richard for a lovely welcome.

We had a lovely week in this beautiful, well stocked cottage, with great views of the countryside.
The cottage was spotlessly clean with lovely comfy beds, fluffy towels a really nice welcome pack and lots of information.

We also enjoyed the log burner in the evening as the weather was really cold.
The grandchildren loved playing in the garden with the small tractor (and Tilly the dog from over the road.) We all enjoyed Butterfly Zoo, Puzzlewood, Chepstow Castle, Monmouth and the amazing scenery. We also walked along the river Monnow to the little church, a nice walk but a little muddy ( as our grandaughter found out when she fell over).

It was all over too soon and we hope to come back next year.

We had an amazing stay at the barn and it was perfect for the family birthday get together. We spent hours at the table as it was so social with the kitchen. People sneaked off into the cosy lounge and fire (big fire basket that eats logs if you have it going well, so remember to sort fuel in colder times) to have a little peace and quiet but we didn't let that sort of thing carry on too long!!
Walking around was fantastic and muddy at this time but no problems, recommend a walk past the church and on to the Bell PH for lunch or just a glass of wine in front of the fire.
All the facilities in the house were good and up to a high standard and Claire came and met us one day to introduce herself which was nice. Interesting to get background to the barn and farm and the other barn behind Old Orchard.
Would use it again for family get-togethers and recommend to others for standard of the barn and location.