For our wedding anniversary, we decided to push the boat put and stay in a “posh” hotel, but also wanted some decent grub…. so in the end picked The Royal Oak Inn
Whilst not an immediately obvious choice, through their web site found they rented out some cottages right by the pub, as well as having rooms in the pub itself…. so thought having a cottage would suit us better.
As it turned out, the cottage we had was fantastic. It was a two bet cottage, with fully kitted out kitchen, dining room and lounge… including a wine fridge (although you had to pay for any wine you drank!) Flat screen TV in lounge and bedroom, both with DVD players, also a CD player as well as things like games, magazines and books. They also provided milk, tea, coffee machine, biscuits and even a chocolate bar for guests to tuck into! I also hadn’t realized that breakfast was included so that was a bit of a bonus. The only slight downside for us (which I hadn’t thought to check) was the stairs to the bedrooms were very steep, but as we only went up and down them a few times it wasn’t a bit issue. Lynn also struggled to get in and out the shower (as it was over the bath) but again managed OK as it was only for one morning.
Having settled into the cottage, we took the short walk to the pub for dinner. There was a wide selection on the normal menu, plus a couple of extra choices on the specials board. Lynn went for the corn fed chicken but I went for the Pork on the specials board…. both were superb. Both of us ended up having three courses which was a bit of a stretch (for our stomach’s :-) ) but thoroughly enjoyed our meals.
The next morning we took the short walk again and had a huge breakfast so was stuffed up for the day !
The meal itself was pretty reasonably priced and although the cottage was pretty expensive, I certainly felt it was a luxurious stay and seemed everything had been provided that you would expect and more.
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