Visit England Rating 100% Cleanliness

Today we had our annual inspection from the Visit England inspector. All seemed to go very well - inspite of the water board contractors arriving 15 minutes before the inspector and starting to dig up the drive and the road outside. We're confident that we will be keeping our 4 stars which was awarded this time last year.

ps. We did get Four Stars again this year and 100% for cleanliness!

Website redesign

After 4 or so years I've finally got round to giving the website a much needed tidy up. We have has comments to the effect 'the cottage was nicer than the photos on the website showed' which in one way is good, but we did need better photos. We will also be adding more testimonials - we now have 3 books full of great reviews but were still showing some from the original few months after we opened.

Have a look and see what you think.

Royal Cottage new website

Autumn Half term

We've just spent a week at the cottage ourselves so we could get on with the yearly maintenance tasks. At least that was the idea - the weather was so mild that we managed to get several long walks in. This week we also had a new bathroom flooring put in. The existing baords had to be boarded first before the new vinyl ( lino ? ) could be laid. It was expensive but we are very pleased with the results.

Working holiday

When we stay at the cottage its all work and no play :-(  as you can see from the photo below which we took during our Summer holiday this year. However, we do get a chance from some days out on the beach and at Cromer and Sheringham.

Herb garden

Paul has just completed planting up the herb garden by the back door. Our visitors at the cottage can now pick fresh herbs, mint, chives, oregano and sage plus a pinch of parsley and coriander. I am hoping that they all survive the frost!

When you stay at the cottage please help yourself to the herbs and vegetables.

Herb garden at Royal Cottage

Play equipment gets a thumbs up from the kids

The new play equipment at Mundesley Gold Park gets a thumbs up from our three children. They like the wide choice especially the birds nest swing and zip wire. Its only just finished and looks very clean and new.

Play equipment 

New Toy Corner

In the top bedroom we have created a new Toy Corner with some additions to our collection including wooden Steiner style Toddler toys and some charming hand knitted glove puppets from Kenya. The firm favourite though is still the wooden train track with Thomas and his friends chugging along!

Royal Cottage Toy Corner