Chippers Cottage Woodhall Spa

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : This is probably the most well-equipped property we've ever stayed in, being very thoughtfully and usefully equipped right down to a cool bag for going shopping!The "welcome food basket" was amazing, with delicious local bread, milk, plum cake, chocolate digestives and a local delicious cheese and a local soft drink. Our dog even had a welcome pack, and there were even dog towels and water bowl! So thoughtful. The house was very clean too.The location is incredibly quiet - almost silent at night, with virtually no traffic at all, and no main roads within earshot. It's the definition of peaceful... on our first night, it was so clear and still that we could hear owls while star-gazing. For the first time in decades, I could see the Milky Way and saw a shooting star! Stunning.Woodhall Spa is a lovely nearby town (5 minutes away) with several really nice cafes and a few good pubs and restaurants. The curry place is rather average (to be polite) but the nearby Village Limits hotel/motel/restaurant does really good food which includes a curry option, so we'd have gone there instead had we known!We couldn't find the advertised shop 1 mile away but Woodhall Spa is only 2.5 miles away. It has a few electric vehicle chargers there too, with 2 hours of free parking. Coningsby is not far away and has a reliable BP 50kW rapid charger at the Co-op and some 7kW destination chargers too.The owners were also kind enough to allow us to put a cable out of the utility room window to charge our electric car too, at a very fair price of 10 - thank you! Secure, off-road parking is also very reassuring.The garden area was beautifully maintained, and there are great dog walks directly from the cottage in both directions. Ostler's Plantation is close by and offers hours of wandering around a forest which still has concrete bases where wartime aircraft were stored.Overall this was a great house in a great (for us) location. Highly...
  : I think the heating controller is broken - the heating runs 24/7 even when set to "timed". (I'll report this back directly to the owner too.) Like all 7kW electric showers, it was ok rather than great, and would be better simply connected to the combi boiler hot water pipe. Nit-picking though! The house was chokingly full of air "fresheners" when we arrived, but it was ok once we'd turned them all off or covered them up and ventilated the house completely for a few hours. Again, nit-picking maybe, but for an asthmatic it could be a genuine problem so it would be worth having a few less.

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children