Dai and Heather Howells welcome you to their cottage apartment, "Wagtails", shown in the picture above. Located in the very North West of Gower Peninsula, and situated right on the vilage green, in the idyllic Village of Llanmadoc.
KEY FEATURES SUMMARISED
Wagtails cottage apartment is a 1 double-bedroom ground floor s/c apartment featuring:
As good a location/position as you could ask for for a holiday break.
Situated right in the heart of Llanmadoc, close to Cwm Ivy National Trust walks/woods, and several local nature reserves.
Accomodation is all on the ground floor. There is off road parking in your own front drive.
Friendly, welcoming, and hopefully informative host owners live next door in Gower Cottage but we leave our guests do their own thing - do pop in for a cuppa however when down. Owners that make an effort and care very much that our guests have an enjoyable stay and all necessary facilities. Your time off work / or retirement time is valuable to you and we want you to enjoy your stay. We love meeting our guests and having a good old natter about Gower.
Wine, milk, and guests information pack on arrival.
Sleeps 2 in one double bed, in one bedroom - which leads through door to private good size bathroom. Another 1 or 2 kids or one adult on sofabed. We usually tell our guests that the apartment is ideal for a couple, but perhaps too small for a family. However we regularly have families to stay including several with three children, and they have always thoroughly enjoyed (kids have slept on sofabed, and sometimes baby in travel cot in bedroom with parents). Ideal for comfort is one adult couple, and perhaps one child on sofabed. (We do not want to mislead guests and want you to enjoy).
We usually allow sensible tame dogs [no dangerous dogs].
Lounge/Dining room with a rustic pine table, 4 nice pine chairs, two seater sofabed, single armchair, bookcase and CD player & DAB radio.
Widescreen Panasonic 36inch CRT tv with Sky box and Panasonic DVD player in lounge.
Good sized bathroom, with combi fed mixer shower over (new) enamel steel bath, new sink and toilet. No shortage of bathroom storage space. Shaving cabinet.
Worcester/Bosch Heatstar Greenslave 18/25 oil fired state of art Combi Boiler Central Heating system (fitted spring 2008) hence constant hot water for nice candle lit bath after a long day walking! You will not be cold!
4 mins walk to the local real ale pub and excellent a la carte pub food / Sunday lunches
10 min walking distance from the beach/woods.
Only 10-12 mins drive to other beaches at Port Eynon or Horton, Oxwich Bay or Llangennith (great surfing), 15 mins to Three Cliffs Bay or 20 mins by car to Caswell, Langland.
Quality bed linen provided, plus t-towels, bathroom towels
Available to let all year round - 12 months and short breaks / weekends
Prices range from £150 (two midweek nights) to £550 per week (late July and August)
Apart from high summer average price is £295 per 7 night week
Short breaks for 2/3 nights available Oct-April
Fullsize dishwasher in kitchen (a small kitchen which leads into lounge diner)
Quality microwave oven, ceramic 4 plate hob, electric oven with grill, toaster, kettle
Ironing board and iron, hairdryer
Quality Le Creuset pots and pans and decent "Denby Jet" crockery, decent range of curlery and knives/kitchen implements
Electric, heating, cleaning materials/toilet roll, kitchen roll, j-cloths, towels and bedding included in the price
Satellite TV, DVD player, widescreen tv, with movies and Sky Sports - relax and watch movies, F1 racing, the golf, rugby football, tennis or cricket - you're on holiday! Also Setanta Sports for extra sports stuff.
Lounge sits 3 comfortably on brown leather sofas
Gas BBQ on rear patio and garden (free gas bottles provided as well as free logs!)
2 mins walk to the Village shop, 10 mins drive to Knelston petrol station and bakery/shop/PO.
500 yds walk to Whiteford or Llanmadoc beaches [10 mins]
Birdwatchers paradise - Greater Spotted Woodpeckers in rear garden
Surfing for the kids off the beach
Hill walking available over Llanmadoc Hill, and to Rhossili Down or Llangennith from the cottage
Superb idyllic spot away from it all and not too close to more touristy areas of Gower (e.g. Rhossili Village, Llangennith Beach) but close enough to get to them if you want
No smoking in apartment, but you can smoke in rear patio or gardens.
own off road parking to the front door
double bed is ensuite, and the bathroom is spotlessly clean and modern. We insist on quality beds/bedding, and this bed was bought in Aug 07 (and has a quality pocket sprung mattress).
We provide fresh bed-linen & towels as well as a bottle of wine for our guests.
We have just fitted a new Victorian style traditional 'Savoy' three piece porcelain bathroom suite fitted in Jan 08 including white enamel shower-bath (with safety handles and anti-slip floor), pedestal sink, and stylish conventional WC. (NB: Bathroom photos on web gallery are now out of date and will shortly be replaced).
Layout is as follows: enter front door, into kitchen area, open plan into lounge with dining table, then through door into double bedroom, which then leads through another door into the bathroom. All situated on ground floor.
Conscious of those with dust allergies, we have minimised the soft-furnishings (laminate flooring throughout and leather sofas). Our usual guests are couples alone or with up to two children who want quality and comfort as well as a great location, but either can't find or don't need a larger cottage. There is a quality leather metal action sofabed in the lounge (new Feb 08) suitable for one adult or two children. Therefore the cottage apartment can sleep a family of up to four and regularly does so (thoroughly enjoyed). The lounge also has a widescreen Panasonic TV and DVD player- and we provide a load of recent DVDs. Modest in size yet we have tried to provide all those home comforts to help you enjoy your stay e.g. quality pillows and duvet, books, decent wall-hangings, DAB digital alarm/radios in lounge and bedroom, Denby crockery, decent cutlery, sky movies and sports, landline phone
BT wireless (WIFI) broadband available free of charge.
The main strengths of Wagtails are: fab location, friendly hosts, simple unfussy booking process, sensible prices, good key facilities and very well 'kitted out', with attention to detail. The friendly owners (that's us - Heather and Dai) live next door, are always keen to welcome and provide help and advice about what to do, where to eat etc. yet leave you get on with it and have the privacy and peace you came to enjoy.
