Glyndley Manor Cottages

A great location for us and a very peaceful setting. There was outdoor seating. The cottage was well equipped and clean. Staff were helpful topping us up with things we were short of. Information about the cottage and local area provided through the 'guest hub app' was thorough and easy to follow.

The cottage was a bit dated in its interior but had all we needed for a comfortable stay. The bathroom could do with modernising.

Fantastic location about 6 miles north of Eastbourne. Peaceful location with amazing bird song all around. The cottage we had (no.24) was all at ground level which was good and had disabled bay outside and outside table and chairs. The grounds of the manor house are lovely, the alpacas are very cute! Bonus to have a swimming pool which is open during office hours. Great to be able to take a dog (note only one dog allowed in cottage). The staff members we met were all pleasant, one guy in particular who seems to do a lion share was very friendly and helpful. The Hillier's garden centre just up the road has a good restaurant and food hall.

The cottage is a little dated, but that is less of an issue than having somewhere that is immaculately clean and well maintained. We accept that in the countryside there will be insects and spiders, but the amount of cobwebs and spiders when we first arrived was far more than really acceptable. Whilst there was a decent level of cleanliness, it really required a much deeper clean to remove all cobwebs, eg clean around the opened window frames, cleaning under radiators, lampshades etc.

Cottage was very well equipped, had everything you might need for self catering

We had to wash the outside furniture ourselves It was full of birds mess and spiders/ webs. Think this had been overlooked and on arrival we spent good part of an hour to get it all off. Also no window coverings in bathroom windows, frosted glass , could see people showering in other cottages, we stuck the non slip mat on ours

The location was lovely. Really quiet and peaceful and plenty of fresh air. If you're looking for an escape from more city life it was wonderful. At night you could go out and see the stars properly. Lots of sheep grazing in the field behind the house and you could even sit outside in the evening and watch the bats flying around. The cottage was what we imagined, small and cozy. It was clean and you could really smell the vinegar used for cleaning, so you know it was recent. The playground in the middle of the houses was lovely and something for your children to play on and wonder about. We also liked taking a walk each morning around the area and fields. Need extra room for other section: We met one of the neighbours who is not a visitor but a permanent resident. They came up to us to warn us there is a dog that lives 2 houses down that has savagely attacked another little dog recently and ripped its throat. Thankfully the other dog is alive, and the "bad dog" now walks with a muzzle but not always. The neighbour warned us as we came with a little dog and a little child and said we need to keep an eye on them at all times because the other dog is a lurcher and very fast. So once we found that out we didn't feel very safe letting the dog out to wee by itself or just being out. We did see the other dog as its owner walked it around our house.

Unfortunately there were a number of things which have stopped us from coming back in the future or recommending a stay. The supplies left were so basic, I would say ever more than minimum. The soap and the washing liquid was watered down. The salt, pepper, and sugar are in little plastic packets that you would find in a cafe. There's nothing you can use to cook like spray oil or normal cooking oils. Even the milk left as a "welcome", it's just the ones you get from petrol station cafes that sit on the shelf. There was maybe a third of a paper towel roll and 2 rolls of toiler paper, one of which has mould on it. For goodness sake, when you pay hundreds of pounds for a few days in a cottage don't be so stingy that the owner or host cannot spend £10 of that charge on basics for guests. The wifi does NOT work. Do not put wifi on the ad if it does not work. You are given a pamphlet with the wifi and password, but the only wifi you can connect to is an open one for what I imagine is the whole location so it's not even protected. There is small print that says it may be intermittent - which is to say it doesn't work at all. And you are in a dead zone so there is no phone signal either. We've been able to connect maybe 2-3 times in the whole stay. Which also means the TV does not work most of the time, but was more reliable than the wifi. The device in the house is not a router, it's just a signal extender so you cannot reset anything. If you try and go to the main house, either the receptionist is not there or it takes a while to get help. There were no other pamphlets or a welcome book or anything left to see what is in the area. Not even a pen to fill out the pamphlet. No board games. A dvd player with no DVDs. No books. It didn't really feel friendly or welcoming like other cottages we've visited or AirB&Bs. It really was just the bare minimum.