Goleen Harbour
Goleen, County Cork · Sleeps up to 5
EcoCabins and geodesic domes on a thirty-eight-acre coastal farm at the far end of the Mizen Peninsula.
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- Atlantic views
- Off-grid
- Geodesic domes
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Log House Holidays
Cotswold Water Park, Gloucestershire, England
Family-run for over 40 years: eight Finnish log cabins around a private 130-acre lake on a personal nature reserve.
Why we love it
Family-run for over 40 years: eight Finnish log cabins around a private 130-acre lake on a personal nature reserve. Lakeside wood-fired hot tubs, saunas, private jetties, paddleboards, kingfishers and otters. Repeatedly featured in The Times as the benchmark for British lakeside cabin holidays. Dog-friendly cabins available. Book direct.
Best for: lake-life luxury, families and dogs
Worth knowing
- You cannot book a single night — the shortest stays are Monday to Friday or Friday to Monday — and you have to be out by 9am on departure day, 10am at Mayo Landing.
- The Finnish hot tub is a paid extra, from £100 a stay, and so are extra logs, kayaks, paddleboards, fishing and dogs.
- It is a private nature reserve around open water: they advise young children be under constant supervision, and no outdoor music is allowed at all.
The practicalities
- Check in
- From 3pm (Mayo Landing 4pm)
- Check out
- By 9am (Mayo Landing 10am)
- Wifi
- Good
- Bring
- Food — they say that and yourselves is all you really need
- Included
- Egyptian cotton bed linen and five-star luxury towels for all guests
- Two boxes of logs for the wood-burner and fire pit, plus a fire box with firelighters, matches and marshmallows
- Faith In Nature hand wash and body wash in each bathroom
- A rowing boat with life-jackets for each cabin
- Extras
- Finnish hot tub — £100 / stay (4-person cabins), £120 (6–8 person), £150 (11 person)
- A pet — £40 pet / stay
- Two more boxes of logs — £20 / two boxes
- Fishing — £40 person / stay
- Stand-up paddleboard — £50 board / stay
- Open-top single kayak — £40 kayak / stay
Getting there
- Nearest station
- Kemble — about 10 minutes from the door
- Without a car
- Difficult, but possible
Kemble station (GL7 6AW) is the nearest, ten minutes' drive from the site. Leave the M4 at junction 15 from the south or the M5 at junction 11a from the north, then the A419 to Cirencester and out on the Spine Road. The Side Lane entrance (GL7 6ED) is down a narrow lane with a weight limit sign; the Spine Road entrance (GL7 6DZ) is 200m further on, through Cotswold stone gates.
What is around it
Pubs
- The Potting Shed, Crudwell
Places to eat
- Made By Bob, Cirencester — In the Corn Hall Arcade.
Shops
- Jesse Smith Farm Shop — On the way into Cirencester.
Towns
- Cirencester
- Tetbury
- Bourton on the Water
Days out
- Westonbirt Arboretum
Stations
- Kemble station — Ten minutes' drive from the site.
Who runs it
Anthony Edmondson
The reserve is, in their words, still looked after by the man who started it all, along with the support of his family. Anthony Edmondson spent six years underground in a Yukon silver mine, then bought an ex-gravel pit in 1980; more than 50,000 trees have gone in since, along with marginal plants, reed beds and wildflowers, and the site was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1993.
Where it is
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