Booking and Payment

Book by e-mail, telephone or fax.  After your initial enquiry I will confirm availability, you make a provisional booking, confirmed by you in writing, together with a deposit of £50 within 7 days.  I will then send you confirmation.

Payment may be made by cheque, credit/debit card, cash or travellers cheque.

The balance after deposit is due 4 weeks before arrival.

Cancellation fees - more than 4 weeks before arrival; the deposit is forfeit.  Less than 4 weeks and I shall require the full price unless I can re-let the cottage.

For bookings made less than 4 weeks before arrival, the total amount is payable on booking.

V.A.T. @ 17.5% is included in the price

Lettings usually commence on Friday but this is not a definite rule.

The cottage will normally be available from 3.00pm but may be earlier if requested.  Please vacate your cottage by 10.00am

What's Included

All bed linen including duvets, are provided.
Each guest is supplied with a soft bath sheet, hand towel and facecloth.

There is a good supply of tea, coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, washing up liquid.      Soap, toilet paper, tissues are also provided.

In the laundry are two washing machines,  a tumble dryer, airing rack, irons and boards.  Payphone, books, brochures, maps and games also live in the laundry. Bramley and Milne have their own washing machines and dryers.

There is a freezer in the laundry with home prepared meals for guests to purchase.  Jams, marmalade and honey are also available.  

All heating and electricity is included.        

Dining

There is a pub in Baxterley (1.75 miles) which serves good beer and meals.  The Plough at Shustoke, Swan at Whitacre, and many more excellent pubs are within 4 miles.  A superb Chinese restaurant and take-away  in Atherstone or super fish and chips in Kingsbury.

Alternatively, there are some delicious, home made meals prepared by a local farmer's wife (who is also Cordon Bleu trained) in the freezer in the laundry.

Pets

Well behaved pets are welcome at Hipsley and there are some wonderful walks for them round the farm.  Guests are requested to clear up after their pets on any mown areas.

.....Anything else?     Please just ask

e-mail: ann@hipsley.co.uk     Telephone:  01827 872437

"You've got everything anybody could possibly want and it is beautifully clean, and the cake was lovely" Mrs. DW, E. Sussex

"One of the loveliest cottages we have stayed in - and we have stayed in many.  Thank you for the wonderful welcome" (J.F. England)

"Not only are the cottages set in a beautiful location, they are spotlessly clean and better equipped than my own home!  I wish I could stay for twelve months a year" (G.B.,England)

"Ann makes the best fruit cake in Britain (worth staying at Hipsley just for this alone). Staying at Hipsley beats staying in a hotel room any day" (F.S. , Germany)