Short breaks in winter can commence on any day of the week and we operate a price structure broadly as set out in the table below, to make it easier for you to approximately self-calculate your likely price before ringing. This assumes you are not booking leading up, on or just after Bank/ public holidays.

WINTER SHORT BREAK PRICE LIST GUIDE 08/09

Stay period	No. of nights	Departing	Price
Monday and Tuesday	2	Wed	£190
Mon to Wed	3	Thurs	£230
Mon to Thurs	4	Fri	£240
Mon to Fri	5	Sat	£300
Tues and Wed	2	Thurs	£190
Tues to Thurs	3	Fri	£260
Tues to Fri	4	Sat	£280
Weds and Thurs	2	Fri	£190
Weds to Fri	3	Sat	£260
Weds to Sat	4	Sun	£280
Weds to Sun	5	Mon	£300
Thurs to Sat	3	Sun	£260
Thurs to Sun	4	Mon	£280
Fri and Sat	2	Sun	£250
Fri to Sun	3	Mon	£260
Fri to Mon	4	Tues	£280
Fri to Tues	5	Weds	£300
Sat and Sun	2	Mon	£230
Sat to Mon	3	Tues	£260
Any 6 nights	6	-	£340
Any 7 nights	7	-	£340

Above prices are a guide only, dates/weeks close to, during or just after Bank holidays will usually vary upwards slightly.

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 - 11AM We kindly ask guests if they could co-operate by departing by 11am on your departure day. This gives Heather and I just enough 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 TERMS   - We only accept cheque payment, sorry no cards. We will accept cash on arrival for late bookings. - We kindly ask for a deposit of £100 for weekly bookings and £75 for all stays shorter than 7 nights. - We ask for the deposit by cheque within 7 days of booking.  - We ask that the full balance be settled (by cheque) no later than 21 days prior to your arrival date, if at all possible.  - Where you book close to this 21 day period, we simply ask for the full balance, [cheque or cash on arrival].   - Cheques to be made payable to "Mr D.A. Howells" and should be sent to:-   (Payment address) Mr and Mrs David and Heather Howells Gower Cottage, Llanmadoc, Gower, Swansea, SA3 1DE 01792 386668 or 07795 177663 davidhowells278@btinternet.com

CANCELLATIONS

- We offer a 100% no quibbles refund service (including deposit) for all bookings subsequently cancelled - regardless of the shortness of notice.   - If this happens, and sometimes it will, rather than us hang on to deposits, to be totally fair and friendly to our guests, what we do ask is that those cancelling kindly consider if they are able, voluntarily - no obligation,  (1) please give us as much notice as possible if you do have to cancel (2) please consider coming back to us at some time in the future; and (3) please kindly mention our cottage to friends and relatives (e.g send our cottage link by email www.cottages-gower.co.uk).   ... Middle Cottage, Llanmadoc

Middle Cottage is a 3-4 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 5-10 mins picturesque stroll down through Cwm Ivy hamlet and lane 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.]   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.