The Perfect Weekend

Arrive at your cottage on Friday evening, have a glass of wine or bubbly and canapes or a hot supper delivered by our caterer, chill out as everyone arrives and catch up on all the gossip.

On Saturday, Go Wild for the day - enjoy a fascinating and fun wild food foray and woodland camp cook-up with one of our very own team of 'wild men'! After a leisurely walk on the Mendips, collecting and tasting wild food as you go, you will set up camp and learn how to make fire, cook wild foods over an open fire you make yourself, and maybe do a bit of whittling as well! Suitable for everyone, this is something really different and great fun.

A relaxed walk back to the cottage for about 4pm gives plenty of time to shower and get changed, and fit in a glass of bubbly on the patio, before getting ready for a night out in Bath. Perhaps you will visit the theatre or have dinner at one of Bath's fantastic restaurants - such as Jamie's Italian. One of our favourite Saturday night treats is a visit to Komedia, Bath's coolest comedy club, with a supper from the River Cottage Canteen. Yum. Afterwards visit the Ice Bar for something completely different...

If your group wants a slightly quieter evening out we'd recommend the quirky City of Wells, where the movie 'Hot Fuzz' was filmed - our favourite is the Piano Cafe with great value food, music and a bar.

Have a leisurely breakfast on Sunday before leaving, and perhaps stop for lunch at a local country pub on the way home. Alternatively, make time to visit our nearby luxury local spa, where you can enjoy a 3 hour spa session with lunch, then pop in to the Mulberry outlet shop on the way home...

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Pamper & Spa

Enjoy the ambience of the cottage, whilst being pampered with a mini-treatment (facial, manicure, pedicure, back massage or indian head massage).

Take a trip to Thermae Bath Spa and use the Open-air rooftop pool, Aroma steam rooms, waterfall shower, and Minerva Bath. For a really special experience, our groups can use an exclusive nearby private hotel spa followed by a heavenly lunch.

Go Wild

Adventurous hens will love a bushcraft expedition, wild food foray or mountain biking with our very own team of 'wild men' Adrian (Ady) Boots, Sean (Silver Fox) Mulhall, and Dave (Wavy) Parke. Learn to make fire, survive in the woods, and much more. Great fun, very popular and unique to our cottages. All groups booking one day of 'Go Wild' activity get a discount off their cottage rental.

Shopping

Can a girl have too many handbags? Or shoes? Our cottages are all near the Mulberry outlet shop for the most upmarket outlet shopping in the West Country. Also Clarks Village has all the famous outlets from Monsoon to Benetton to Coast to good old M&S.

Bath has great shopping, or you could try the fantastic new Cabot Circus shopping centre in Bristol.

For something more quirky, try Britain's smallest City, Wells, with its wonderful Cathedral, cafe culture, shops & Saturday morning open air market. Transfers in a minibus big enough to bring all that shopping back to the cottage!

Action Sports

Pony-trekking

Quad-biking and 4x4 off-road driving

Rock-climbing, Caving & Abseiling

Archery & high wires

Hiking & Orienteering

Mountain Biking

Clay pigeon shooting

Fabulous Food

The F Word! Our fabulous local caterer offers relaxed home-cooked dishes, canapes, etc, delivered to the cottage.

Our local minibus service is reliable and friendly and will make sure you get where you want to go, and return you back to your cottage safely.

 

Give us a call to discuss how we can help you organise a fabulous weekend! Check to see if your date/s are available!

Contact: Adrian Boots, The Cottage. 01761 463356. Click here to email us.