PRICES FOR s/c HOLIDAY STAYS AT MIDDLE COTTAGE, LLANMADOC, GOWER PENINSULA, SA3 1DE Prices are for 11/12 season and 12/13 season
Weekly Prices December & January, February £325 per week for Sat-Sat (*£350 if you wish to stay for both Friday and Saturday night during your weekly stay)
Notes on prices for Dec, Jan and Feb:
1. Excl Xmas 2011 (£575), New Year 2012 (£575), and February Half Term w/c Saturday February 11th 2012 (£525) 2. Weekly rates shown exclude bank holidays and half term weeks. 3. During December, January and February we do consider accepting short stays - see short break prices shown below weekly rates on this page. 4. Whilst we do allow shorter stays during this period, to encourage Sat-Sat cycle bookings, we charge £350 per stay during the above three months of Dec, Jan, and Feb, if you stay for 6 or 7 nights and if your stay includes both Friday and Saturday nights. March £370 per week Sat to Sat only April and October £440 per week Sat to Sat only Excluding weeks commencing Saturday 31st March 2012 (£525) & Saturday 7th April 2012 (£575) & October Half Term w/c Sat 27th Oct 2012 (£525) May, June, early July & September £550 per week Sat to Sat only Excludes weeks which include Mayday or Spring (late may) Bank Holiday weeks which are priced at £595
Late half of July and all of August (School Holidays) £895 per week Sat to Sat only November £325 per week Sat to Sat only Weekly prices - Notes
1. For the months of March to November inclusive, we can only accept weekly bookings, based on Sat - Sat, due to demand and changeover arrangements. 2. During the months of December, January & February we do consider shorter stays depending on availability - see short stay price guide below 3. We advertise Middle Cottage on many commercial/external "pay to list", sites, as well as this website which is our own website. It is not always possible to ensure the details on such external commercial sites are up to date. Should there ever be any unintended contradiction between any prices (or details of facilities) shown on such sites when compared to this website, the prices on this website stand. 4. We charge £15 extra for any second dog. The first dog is free. All pets by agreement, but usually very welcome.
Short break Prices for December, January and February only We only accept short breaks during the months of December, January and February
Stay period
No. of nights
Departing
Price
Monday and Tuesday
2
Wed
£195
Mon to Wed
3
Thurs
£235
Mon to Thurs
4
Fri
£245
Mon to Fri
5
Sat
£305
Tues and Wed
2
Thurs
£195
Tues to Thurs
3
Fri
£265
Tues to Fri
4
Sat
£285
Weds and Thurs
2
Fri
£195
Weds to Fri
3
Sat
£265
Weds to Sat
4
Sun
£295
Weds to Sun
5
Mon
£305
Thurs to Sat
3
Sun
£265
Thurs to Sun
4
Mon
£295
Fri and Sat
2
Sun
£265
Fri to Sun
3
Mon
£275
Fri to Mon
4
Tues
£295
Fri to Tues
5
Weds
£305
Sat and Sun
2
Mon
£235
Sat to Mon
3
Tues
£265
6 nights incl both Fri and Sat nights
6
-
£350
7 nights incl both Fri and Sat nights
7
-
£350
Short Break Notes: 1. Above prices exclude dates/weeks which include Bank holidays or Half Terms during the months of December, January and February are seperately priced. 2. Xmas week (Week including Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, and Boxing Day) - price shown above individually 3. New Year Week (week including NYE and NYD) - price shown above individually 4. If you wish to book early, the above prices will remain constant for Xmas and New Year 2012. 5. February Half Term Week - price shown above individually
OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION
ARRIVAL TIME - 4.00 PM
We kindly ask guests to plan to arrive after 4.00pm on arrivals day. If you are setting out early and would find this to be a real problem, please let us know in advance and we will try to fit in with you, since the last thing you will want after a long drive is to have to hang around somewhere in the car. If you really do prefer to arrive before 4.00pm, this may on occasion involve you arriving whilst we are still changing bed linen, cleaning, etc. and we don’t mind if you don’t. Alternatively The King Arthur Hotel (Reynoldston), Kings Head (Llangennith), The Greyhound (Oldwalls) or The Brittannia Inns (Llanmadoc) - all real ale pubs - are close by and all do a decent lunch / refreshments, or you could visit the Compass Cafe/Ice Cream Parlour which is only 10 mins drive away on the South Gower road just at the bottom of Reynoldston Village. You can usually get a coffee or Joe's Ice Cream at "Our Shop" in Llanmadoc, in the lane to the left of Middle Cottage when seen from the road.
DEPARTURE TIME - 10.30 AM
We kindly ask guests if they could co-operate by departing by 10.30am on your departure day. This gives our changeover help sufficient time to prepare the cottage for our next guests so that it will be as nice for them as it was for you when you arrived.
PAYMENT AND CANCELLATIONS POLICY
PAYMENT TERMS
- We usually prefer to accept cheque or online banking payment, or where late bookings we may accept cash on arrival, by agreement.
- We kindly ask for a 30% deposit within 7 days of booking.
- We ask that the full balance be settled (by cheque or online) no later than two calendar months prior to your arrival date
- Where you book close to this two month period, we will ask for the full balance.
CANCELLATION POLICY
- cancellations made more than two months before arrival date will receive a full no quibbles refund. - If you cancel within two months of your visit we will keep the full balance unless we take another booking. We will always be fair and understanding to guests with genuine unforeseeable reasons to need to cancel. - If you do cancel within two months of arrival date but we manage to take a replacement booking following your cancellation we will make a full refund to you (minus any price loss we may have incurred in taking any late replacement booking). - We still recommend visitors consider taking out travel insurance which covers you for losses (including unforseen circumstances) in any such cancellation event (obviously your travel insurance must UK based holidays).
- Cheques to be made payable to "Mrs Heather Howells" and should be sent to:-
Middle Cottage is a 5 mins easy stroll down to the local Real Ale Inn which offers an A La Carte menu (Bread and Butter Pudding is really nice, as is Hake in lager batter and home made chips, or Salt Marsh Lamb) not to mention some decent wine and Tomas Watkin Cwrw Haf or Chwarae Teg and Marstons Pedigree. We are also just a 8-10 mins picturesque stroll down through Cwm Ivy hamlet and (15 mins from cottage) down the lane further to Whitford / Llanmadoc beach and Cwm Ivy woods (National Trust). There you can pick your own mussels and cook them in white wine back at Middle Cottage. (We've actually done this ourselves).
Is this the perfect walk..... ?
....immediately follow up the lane at rear of Middle Cottage cottage you can walk up Llanmadoc Hill, which is Gower's second highest peak, on which sits an incredible Bronze Age fort - The Bullwork). After taking in the incredible views across Gower, and a few camera snaps, you can then walk 1 mile over to Llangennith village for lunch (or "lunch"!) in Kings Head Pub at Llangennith. From right outside the King Head pub, then catch the local bus back to Llanmadoc, (10 mins by bus) dropping off outside our front door....the perfect "walk".
Eating out? Five of the very best not too far from Middle Cottage, in Gower
The Britannia Inn and restaurant: Martin, the young but entrepreneurial chef at your local Inn, in Llanmadoc, would challenge some of the more established venues below, with his top drawer dishes. Martin, who is Gower's answer to Jamie Oliver, 'cheffed' in Sydney, Australia, and he and his partner Lindsey will not let you down on quality nor taste, and the wines and beers match anything in Gower. Go for the locally caught sea-bass, belly pork, lamb, Welsh Black fillet beef, always soe quality vegetarian options on parade, and make sure you try his bread and butter pudding. The restaurant was refurbished in December 2007, and this pub is the quintessential Gower local, yet with a classy restaurant and great food, to go with it (or settle for a bar meal of lager battered hake and home made chips). Sunday lunch is great too but book early. Try the New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, or the Chilean Merlot, or just good old fashioned Felinfoel Double Dragon cask ale. [4 mins walk from the cottage.]
Maes-yr-Haf. Did you know, a fantastic new restaurant has just, in autumn 2007, opened in Parkmill, south Gower, "Maes-yr-Haf" (meaning 'Summer field'). In a modern restaurant setting, is served some of Gower's best A la Carte cuisine, incorporating local produce, some fine Welsh, English and world wines, and desserts to die for. It takes approximately 20 mins to drive from Middle Cottage to Maes-Hy-Haf through some of Gower's most attractive scenery.
Fairyhill County Hotel and Restaurant: Closer still to Middle Cottage is the acclaimed Fairyhill restaurant in Burry Green. Commonly accepted as easily Swansea and Gower's finest restaurant, admittedly with with prices to match, but worth it since you can expect some of Wales's finest local fare, including dishes incorporating salt marsh lamb, locally caught sea bass, and cockles and laverbread - and cooked to perfection, in a fine setting. [5 mins drive from the cottage, down hill, turn right at The Britannia, then after 1 mile, turn left into Burry Green, head for Reynoldston, and you'll see signs in leafy lane.] - Also why not buy some Fairyhill wine online. Paul and Andrew, the Fairyhill Proprietors, are long time experienced wine importers/merchants (P & A Wines of Mumbles) and have some real crackers available - and can deliver to Middle Cottage within a day or two or have wine sent to your home address.
The Welcome to Town: named after one of Gower's legendary (but now closed) old public houses, the Welcome to Town, set in the historic assizes/gaol/court room at Llanrhidian (looks like a row of small white cottages), opposite the old whipping post, near Llanrhidian Church, in N. Gower. Expect quality a la carte food both local and european in style, in a cosy, intimate 'cottagey' atmosphere. Again expect to be served local fish dishes and desserts to die for, as well as fine Welsh ales. [7-8 mins drive from the cottage, back down past The Britannia, on north Gower road, past Landimore, Oldwalls, and into Llanrhidian Village, turn left down hill just before Llanrhidian (Heronstone) filling station.]
The King Arthur: One of Gower's finest pubs, with a very ambient and spacious yet cosy feeling, (log fire etc), set on Reynoldston Green, with the widest specials board selection of genuinely local produce including Welsh Black Beef, cajun hake, grilled trout, all sorts of roasts and grills, and fine desserts. Great wines too.
