Caves Farm Barns - Kestrel
East Cambridgeshire
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Kestrel is a converted barn on Caves Farm near Ely, sleeping eight across four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The entire ground-floor layout gives you one king bedroom with ensuite, a double, and two further rooms with singles, plus a full kitchen with dishwasher and separate dining and living spaces. Bed linen, towels and wifi are provided; heating and hot water are included.
What makes this different is the setting. The farm spans 280 acres of arable land in the Fens, and staying here gives you access to footpath walks across it. There's an indoor heated swimming pool (7m × 3m, open year-round from 9am to 7pm, with private evening slots available), an undercover courtyard, and parking on site. The half-acre garden is fenced. Littleport, three miles away, has shops and riverside pubs; Ely itself—six miles off—sits on an island in the Fens and centres on its 11th-century cathedral, with the river and marina nearby for walks. Cambridge and King's Lynn are both easily reached by car. No smoking inside the property.
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Arrive after 16:00 Depart before 10:00
🚭 No smoking, please
What guests say
Spent a wonderful weekend lots fir the granson to do very clean and tidy swimming pool was great well equipped kitchen.
a month ago · via Google
'Kestrel' is a 4 bedroom very spacious bungalow with large living room, dinning room and kitchen with a large private garden on a farm 5 mins drive along a dead-end road from the A10 Ely bypass. Very clean. Good for groups or family gatherings. Great sunsets over flat open farmland. Lots of wildlife, muntjac (small deer), pheasants, etc. Ely and Welney WWT, and many other nature reserves nearby. OK internet and phone reception. No supermarket nearby, so stock up before you come. 2 smaller chalets on the same site. Highly recommended.
a year ago · via Google
Just stayed here for 3 nights with a group of friends for our joint 40th. Overall, it was a nice place to stay but we do think that there needs to be more honesty about the place before you book it: - The hot tub had no water in it, because it can't be used at the moment. This should not be on the details for the site, when clearly from other reviews, it has been out of action for ages. This is false advertising and if we had booked the place primarily for this, we would have been angry. - Swimming pool was tepid, so we decided not to go in. - The oven didn't work in fan made, which we planned on using for the weekend. We were able to use it at a low heat for the odd thing, but if you wanted to use it properly at a higher heat, it wouldn't have happened. - You could barely watch anything on the TV other than BBC channels and BBC iPlayer and there were no logins for things like Channel 4 or ITV and we didn't have out personal account details with us.... it would have been good to have been given a heads up about this. - There was no welcome folder with useful info about the property including the wi fi code, so we landed up contacting the owner and trying the owner's daughter next door. If info was in the property like most places, we wouldn't have had to bother them at all. Also no info about whether they recycle, do they want the beds stripped at end of stay etc. - Light at front of house couldn't be turned off (unless we missed something), so had to keep windows closed at nights, as it was attracting so many insects. - Property needed some TLC in places and a massive lack of plug sockets. We would consider staying here again, but that's more because space wise it was great and quiet and we'd also know what we'd need to bring next time to make our stay right.
2 years ago · via Google
Where to start... We went for a week in Aug and paid extra for a working hot tub and pool. The hot tub had no water the entire week. The pool was too cold for the adults to get in. The accommodation itself is tired and needs a deep clean. The television was missing a battery, even when we replaced it the TV still didn't work. The owner's dog appeared one day jumping on the sofas and at my children (who are scared of dogs). There was rubbish in the garden, random planks of abandoned wood, the drive so overgrown that the car kept switching off due to sensors saying something was in the way. Broken wood covering a dangerous pothole on the drive. Insufficient electric sockets we had to buy extension leads etc. Horrific views overlooking another house to the point we kept the curtains closed at all times. The communal areas had abandoned random objects eg. A broken table, radiator gardening tools. Not to mention the various trip hazards all over the place. What appeared to be a cest pit close to the children's play area. But, to make matters even worse despite contacting the owner by phone , text (the number listed in the property to call in case of emergency) and banging on her door she never responded. She did however answer the phone to cottages .com (who we booked with) and informed them that the hot tub wasn't working as she was waiting for a part from America. However, this is the exact same excuse she used when we booked the property two years ago! Since then the property and site has gone downhill dramatically.
2 years ago · via Google