Guest guide
Your guide to Curlew Cottage
Arrival, the woodburner, bins, walks and tides. Read this before you come.
For guests staying at Curlew Cottage. We send your key-safe and wifi details by email before arrival.
Arriving
Getting in
Check-in and the key safe
Check-in is from 4pm. The key safe is on the wall by the front door, beside the boot scraper. We email your arrival details the week before your stay.
Parking
One space on the gravel, through the gate and to the left of the lane. Please park in that space only, so the turning area stays clear.
Wifi
The router is in the hall cupboard. The network name is on the label underneath it. The wifi password comes with your arrival details.
Running late?
If you expect to arrive after 8pm, call us on 01632 960 842 beforehand to check you have the arrival instructions.
In the house
Woodburner, bins and the dog
Lighting the woodburner
Logs are in the basket and firelighters are on the hearth. Open the air vent fully before you light it, and close it down once the logs are burning well. Burn wood only, and keep the glass door shut.
Bins and recycling
General waste goes in the black bin by the gate, collected on Tuesdays. Recycling goes in the blue crate, also collected on Tuesdays. Glass goes to the bottle bank in the harbour car park, a four-minute walk.
Dogs
Dog bags are in the box by the back gate. Bag it and put it in the black bin. The dog bed, bowls and towel are in the hall cupboard. Dogs may use the sofa with the throw on it, not the beds.
Before you walk
Check the tide before you go
The marsh floods. The Marram Walk boardwalk floods in places at high tide, and the causeway at the end of Staithe Lane is under water for about two hours either side of high tide. Read the tide table on the board by the quay before you set out. Do not walk the marsh on a rising tide.
Local walks
Three walks from the front door
Harbour wall loop
One mile round, flat, and step-free on the quay. Start at the end of Staithe Lane and walk out along the wall. Good at low tide and in the evening.
Marram Walk
About two miles there and back over a boardwalk across the salt marsh. Wear boots, and check the tide first. Curlews call here all year.
Chapel Field path
A 20-minute climb to St Ebba’s church, with a view over the whole marsh. The path is grass and can be wet.
Food and drink
Pubs, bakery and the boats
The Lantern Room
The pub on the quay. Food until 9pm, and the kitchen is closed on Mondays. Dogs are welcome in the bar but not in the dining room.
Staithe Bakery
Open from 7:30am, Tuesday to Sunday. The sourdough and cinnamon buns sell out by about 10am. Closed on Mondays.
Seal trips
Gull Point Seal Trips leave from the quay hut, from Easter to October. Book at the hut on the day, when the weather is right.
Leaving
Check-out is by 10am
- Run the dishwasher before you leave, and put the bins out on Monday night for Tuesday.
- Shut the woodburner door and close the vent, so the stove is cold by morning.
- Lock the front and back doors, and put the key back in the key safe.
- Leave dog towels in the hall cupboard, not on the sofa.
Help
Who to call
- An emergency: call 999 first.
- A problem with the cottage: call 01632 960 842, 8am to 8pm.
- Email: stay@curlewcottage.example.com, and we reply within a working day.
Next step
Enjoy the stay. Call if anything is wrong.
Gwen and Oskar are a phone call away between 8am and 8pm.