Happy New Year!

Well, a week in to 2011! We hope you all had a restful and happy break over the Christmas season, and would like to wish everyone all the best for the new year. We had a lovely family Christmas here, depsite a few delays due to the snow in Germany preventing flights. One highlight had to be circumnavigating Derwentwater and visiting St Herbert’s Island on ice skates. A first for everyone in the family, even Alan who skated on the lake as a child. Another has been falling asleep listening to the cricket, with the house reverberating to the sound of Test Match Special and the exhilarting Ashes series going on in Australia. It should culminate tonight (if the rain goes away!) with an England win down under for the first time since 1986! So, all in all, definitely a Christmas to remember.

Our alterations in Cocklety How Stable Loft have gone well, and the photos of the new bedroom and sitting room are now up on its webpage. We are now refitting the kitchen, which will be completed in the next few weeks. As ever, photos will be up on the website soon after.

We have also finished and trialled our new interactive prices and availability page which is now totally integrated on the website. It shows day by day availability and should make searching for your ideal break more intuative and informative. Let us now what you think: drop us an email, give us a bell, or join us on facebook or twitter and make a post.

Finally, it only remains to say that the new year has brought us the usual flurry of booking so we are as busy as ever! Our new cottage, Cocklety How Byre, is proving popular and we hope it will become a favourite get away place for some of you, as so many of our other cottages are. We hope you will consider Manesty Holiday Cottages for whatever holidays you are planning at the moment: get in touch and we will do our best to help you.