Retreat East

Beautiful place - would recommend

Pros: Beautiful property. We stayed in the Roost, two bedrooms, sleeps 4. Booking.com doesn’t make it clear which of the properties in the farm you are booking, but you can figure it out by checking against the photos on the farm website. Peaceful and relaxing place, 2 hours drive from London. Great food and drinks in the main barn restaurant including fantastic mocktails and the most flavoursome risotto I’ve ever had, really friendly service. Nice spa and hot tub facilities. Lovely massage treatments, including for pregnancy - we stayed as a group of friends for a babymoon weekend. Would recommend - we definitely plan to go back.

Cons: Time in the spa and hot tub has to be pre booked and slots are 30 mins - wish we could have had longer and more flexibility on timings, but the upside is that your time in the spa and hot tub is private to your group and not shared with other guests. They were about to extend the size of the spa when we were there, which may increase capacity. Would be great if they could also build a pool!

It was a romantic private intimate place to spend it with my partner on his bday.

Pros: The location was beautiful, i like how clean and private it feels.

Cons: Nothing comes to mind.

Lives up to the \

Pros: Enormous, modern barn-conversion-type \

Cons: Sadly, we did not have time to exploit the spa - but it looked excellent (although we wished it had been a tad cheaper). The rooms are very modern - but could have done with a mini-intro to all the buttons/switches.

Pros: A lovely quirky cottage, perfect for our training group.

Cons: Everything was very good.

Peaceful weekend stay.

Pros: Quiet peaceful location, clean comfortable accommodation. Nicely decorated Shepards hut. Nice breakfast and food in the restaurant

Cons: Lack of storage for clothing etc in shes hut. Under bed storage blocked by wall mounted heater. No availability at spa during our stay depite trying to book ahead when we booked the stay.

Lovely stay away

Pros: A really lovely stay. All staff were exceptionally friendly and accommodating. The Shepards Hut was done to a great standard and perfect for a few nights away. The bed was very comfy. Very private and no risk of being overlooked by any neighbours. The included continental breakfast was good quality. Despite the coffee machine breaking on the first day they took orders and made drinks at the bar. The food for lunch and dinner, whilst expensive was worth it with generous portions and clearly very good quality. A service charge was added but I was more than happy to pay due to the friendly service we received. Spa facilities whilst fairly limited were nice to make use of. Overall a lovely environment to relax in.

Cons: A few areas of improvement would be lovely to see. The spa facilities were very disorganised unfortunately as I believe the spa receptionist was unavailable. Led to confusion as we sat waiting to be shown into our pre booked times in spa/hot tub but nobody was available to show us how to use them/where to go. Only one changing room for spa/treatment facilities so our valuables ended up locked in a changing room whilst someone got changed for their spa treatment. Not ideal. Bikes were very poorly maintained, low tyres and generally unloved. Whilst nice to use they weren’t practical for anything over 10-15 minutes. I was unable to start the fire as very limited kindling and no fire lighters etc so as soon as it started going, it died out. Fortunately some good electric heating instead. Could do with a hook or two on the bathroom wall for towels etc. Overall these negative points are greatly overshadowed by the positives, hence my 9/10 review.

Lovely place and friendly staff. Very relaxing place and good accommodation.

Pros: Lovely decor and some nice touches in the rooms. Good spa treatments

Cons: The booking system for hot tub only 30’mins bikes aren’t for roads but the route is roads

Relaxing getaway.

Pros: Lovely and relaxing break location,a great place to wind down , staff were great and a very enjoyable stay.

Cons: Alcoholic refreshments a wee bit pricey but otherwise no negatives.

Pros: Really cosy well decorated the great barn was amazing food was stunning lovely location

Really enjoyed the accommodation and especially the log burner. Great location. Staff were friendly.

Pros: Venue very nice, accommodation excellent. Staff were very friendly and helpful, just not enough of them in the spa. Breakfast was very nice, pastries were fresh etc. Just a bit slow to refill the food and plates. We had to keep asking for things.

Cons: There was no-one to greet us at the spa so we ended up asking the restaurant manager for robes then just finding our way around the facilities. And it was sightly awkward sitting in the spa reception in robes next to people eating lunch. Would be better if they could move the spa reception into the spa area. There was also weird miscommunication via booking.com and the venue. I enquired about extras for our arrival as it was my partners birthday but didn't confirm. There was a bottle on arrival so I presumed it was complimetary. But they charged us £35 on check-out. Plus a £25 for a dog. Which I didn't book or take.