Once found, it was easy. The drive up from Woolacombe was interesting and might challenge the less experienced driver on a busy day.
But, it’s worth the effort.
Run by Stacey and Will, with Freya on waiting duties during our visit, and watched carefully by the most chilled /laziest golden retriever you’ll ever encounter, the place is a jewel.
Only five minutes from stunning views of Woolacombe Beach, Lundy Island and the Bristol Channel, and only a light handed nine iron away from the Mortehoe Museum, this former pub has been tastefully re-purposed as a B&B. It has SmokeyJoe’s BBQ evenings on Monday and Tuesday and Miss Fea’s Bistro on other evenings.
We sat in the Bistro on our first evening, just to enjoy a glass of wine and a local beer, and as we watched Freya bringing out the beautifully presented plates , we were both struck with food envy. We returned the next evening to sample their wares. Having been to a friend’s 70th birthday party all afternoon, a very successful BBQ, where we had both way eaten too much, we could only manage a starter each and a single desert.
I can honestly recommend the scallops starter and my wife’s mussels were par excellence. The Pavlova desert was definitely worth leaving space for too.
Breakfast was included (I guess the B&B gives it away) and it was delicious. I had the “Full English” which was grand, enough but not too much, and my wife the “Omelette with Greens”. Both were delicious. On the second morning I went for the ‘Omelette with Haddock”, turned out to be another excellent choice.
With mobility issues, the lack of ground floor accommodation or a lift was always going to be a concern, but the long staircase and grand banister, proved to be easily managed and our room, “Lundy” was the first room your arrive at. Access was not a problem.
The rooms (an ante room with a chaise long and a small ‘dressing area’) were spacious, with tall ceilings, giving lots of light, and the bed was most comfortable. with soft pillows, a light and a warm duvet. The bathroom, with it’s rolltop bath, nice double headed shower was big and again light and airy, and lovely towels too.
The decent sized wall mounted television was easy to use (it was during Wimbledon…) and the free Wi-Fi connected first time and worked well.
Perfect? Not quite. It would be remiss of me to point out a couple of things, such as the plug in the bath leaked very, very slowly, (maybe purposefully to avoid you wasting your day luxuriating in the bath!) and the bottom of the shower door leaked a little. In the first case not enough to spoil your soak (Will is aware of it now), and the latter was nothing that one of the spare towels couldn’t manage.
However.
Would I recommend it? In a heartbeat. Would I go again? I’m looking for reasons to go back!