2010 price guide below.......
MIDDLE COTTAGE, LLANMADOC, GOWER

This is only a price guide. See our "Availability" page for dates/availability. If we are booked on the dates you need, also check availability at our other option of a cottage apartment, "Wagtails Cottage Apartment" found on website: www.cottageingower.co.uk

Price guide  - 2010 for Middle Cottage

This price guide below will give you a close idea what you might expect to pay when you stay at Middle Cottage. Prices can vary around bank holidays so Email us heatheranddaihowells@gowercottage.com for a definitive price. Prices will usually be as stated below.

WEEKLY RATES

 

Weekly rates price-guide  -  Middle Cottage

 

WINTER LOW SEASON  - (November, December, January, February)

(SHORT BREAKS LESS THAN A FULL WEEK ARE WELCOME)

£345 per week  
 

EARLY SPRING / LATE AUTUMN SEASON - (March, April, October)

(WEEKLY BOOKINGS ONLY TAKEN)

£440 per week

 

REGULAR HIGH SEASON (May, June & September)

(WEEKLY BOOKINGS ONLY TAKEN)

£550 per week  

 

EARLY JULY HIGH SEASON (Early July)

(WEEKLY BOOKINGS ONLY TAKEN)

£650 per week  

 

PREMIUM HIGH SEASON (School Holiday Mid-Summer)  (i.e. 6 week summer holidays - late July & August)

(WEEKLY BOOKINGS ONLY TAKEN)

£950 per week for Summer 2010

 

Notes: 

1. Prices for 6 or 7 nights are the same. 

2. Some weeks even in winter season/off peak may be restricted to full week bookings.

3. Dates around Bank/public holidays  - prices will vary accordingly

 

SHORT BREAK - 2010 PRICES

 Middle Cottage

 

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.

 

09/10 SHORT BREAK PRICE GUIDE (November 09 to end of February 2010 and from early November 2010)

 

Stay period

No. of nights

Departing

Price

Monday and Tuesday

2

Wed

£210

Mon to Wed

3

Thurs

£250

Mon to Thurs

4

Fri

£260

Mon to Fri

5

Sat

£320

Tues and Wed

2

Thurs

£210

Tues to Thurs

3

Fri

£280

Tues to Fri 

4

Sat

£300

Weds and Thurs

2

Fri

£210

Weds to Fri

3

Sat

£280

Weds to Sat

4

Sun

£310

Weds to Sun

5

Mon

£320

Thurs to Sat

3

Sun

£280

Thurs to Sun

4

Mon

£310

Fri and Sat

2

Sun

£280

Fri to Sun

3

Mon

£290

Fri to Mon

4

Tues

£310

Fri to Tues

5

Weds

£320

Sat and Sun

2

Mon

£250

Sat to Mon

3

Tues

£280

Any 6 nights

6

-

£425

Any 7 nights

7

-

£425

 

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

 

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 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 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 "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

HeatherAndDaiHowells@GowerCottage.Com

 

 

 

Middle Cottage, Llanmadoc

 

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.]

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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