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Howells Mere 90, Crows Nest

Howells Mere 90, Crows Nest

4.6
out of 5
Ratings from 6 reviews
100% of guests
recommend
Cleanliness
5.0
Comfort
4.8
Condition
4.5
Location
4.5
Value
4.2
Customer
Service
4.7

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Crows Nest is a lovely lakeside rooftop penthouse holiday home set in a 550 acre beautiful nature reserve. It has excellent onsite facilities & activities, with luxury spa access, swimming pools, watersports, fishing, bike hire, tennis, fishing, restaurant, bar & pizza shack.

​Sleeping up to 4 in 2 bedrooms & 2 bathrooms. 1 x double (or twin, with rooftop access) ensuite, 1x double (or twin) ensuite. The large open plan living area / kitchen with log burning stove leads to superb decking area, outside seating & BBQ

Sleeps 4
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• Spa membership included
• Gym, indoor & outdoor Pools
• Watersports, Activities & Bike Hire (Bookable)
• Tennis Courts & Fishing
• Ballihoo Restaurant & Clubhouse
• South facing with large lake side deck
• Lake frontage with shared pontoon
• 2 x bedrooms & 2 x bathrooms
• 2 x double bedrooms
• Both doubles can be configured as singles
• Superfast fibre broadband
• Dogs welcome (Charges apply)
• Refundable security deposit required

Excellent location, bit difficult to find where our apartment was. Poor signage.

Review submitted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025
4.7
out of 5
Guest recommends this property
Cleanliness
5.0
Comfort
5.0
Condition
4.0
Location
5.0
Value
4.0
Customer
Service
5.0
Apartment was lovely, but felt it was a bit tired. Doors to decking from the bedroom were swollen at the bottom which made them difficult to shut. Drain smell in the shower. Info description stated there was a club house. Pub and restaurant, did not realise it was
Ballyhoo all in one.

Rosemary from Colchester stayed at Howells Mere 90, Crows Nest for 5 nights in April 2025


Perfect Place!

Review submitted on Sat, 29 Jun 2024
4.5
out of 5
Guest recommends this property
Cleanliness
5.0
Comfort
4.0
Condition
4.0
Location
5.0
Value
4.0
Customer
Service
5.0
Beautifully appointed apartment in a good location to explore the area. We had a lovely stay and everything you could possibly need was where you would expect to find it!!

Lisa from Guernsey stayed at Howells Mere 90, Crows Nest for 10 nights in June 2024


Lovely place for a few days

Review submitted on Fri, 10 Mar 2023
4.7
out of 5
Guest recommends this property
Cleanliness
5.0
Comfort
5.0
Condition
4.0
Location
4.0
Value
5.0
Customer
Service
5.0
I cannot fault the accommodation apart from a few key issues which were reported. The bedrooms were amazing and the view was very impressive. We didn’t use the balcony because of the weather but I bet it would be great in the summer.
The kitchen had everything we needed apart from a decent bottle opener. (It may have been hidden away somewhere)

The location was great although there was no real access to the lakes. You could go for walks around the site admiring every bodies bedrooms but you couldn’t actually walk round a lake. It was like walking through a village rather than the country side.

The restaurant on site was ok. But the service was slow and when busy some of the team seemed very angry. Also, if you have a severe hazelnut allergy I would avoid it as a lot of the vegetarian meals had hazelnuts. We only ate then once for dinner because of my fear of cross contamination. However breakfast was amazing.

Jo from Reading stayed at Howells Mere 90, Crows Nest for 3 nights in February 2023


Beautiful second floor apartment

Review submitted on Sat, 10 Sep 2022
4.8
out of 5
Guest recommends this property
Cleanliness
5.0
Comfort
5.0
Condition
5.0
Location
5.0
Value
4.0
Customer
Service
5.0
A beautiful apartment with lovely view over the lake. Super clean and comfortable, was a lovely place to spend the bank holiday weekend !

Craig from Cheadle stayed at Howells Mere 90, Crows Nest for 3 nights in August 2022


Excellent apartment in a lovely location

Review submitted on Wed, 24 Aug 2022
5.0
out of 5
Guest recommends this property
Cleanliness
5.0
Comfort
5.0
Condition
5.0
Location
5.0
Value
5.0
Customer
Service
5.0
This apartment is perfect, quite spacious and very clean and tidy. There were only the two of us but we felt there was plenty of room for four. The outside terrace overlooking the lake is also quite large.

Anne from Stevenage stayed at Howells Mere 90, Crows Nest for 4 nights in August 2022


Great accommodation but onsite hospitality poor

Review submitted on Sun, 26 Sep 2021
4.0
out of 5
Guest recommends this property
Cleanliness
5.0
Comfort
5.0
Condition
5.0
Location
3.0
Value
3.0
Customer
Service
3.0
Lovely property, could not want for any home comfort or necessity for comfortable stay .Very large deck overlooking a lake which was a big feature and made a huge difference to our enjoyment. A hot tub on the deck would be perfect but is probably impossible to to provide.
we were not impressed by the onsite cafe/bar/ store which was downmarket and refuses cash. To find anywhere half decent to eat you have to walk at least a mile, which is no problem, but anywhere other than the Bakers Arms, a car is needed and booking is a must.

I did feel like prisoner No.6 from the tv series of the 70's particularly with the constant bombardment of emails containing pages and pages of rules and regulations and gate pass numbers etc etc

The Orion group also gave us the wrong key code and we were fortunate that their office was still manned when we arrived as we might not have gained entry to the property!

Tony from Saundersfoot stayed at Howells Mere 90, Crows Nest for 3 nights in September 2021


Sarah Sykes replied more than 1 year ago
Thank you for your review following your recent stay with us and we were of course pleased you liked the property and outside space with it and the property itself matched your expectations, that’s lovey feed back. We were of course sorry to see your other comments about the on site staff etc, as just a property management company we are powerless over these things but your comments will be seen of course. The location is very rural at Lower Mill and a car is highly recommended when staying here, unless you like long walks or are happy to use the onsite restaurant. The emails, rules and regulations, sincere apologies for the bombardment here, as you can imagine this summer has been unprecedented in how busy the area is and along with ever changing rules on what the estate are doing with covid measures, we have sent more information than normal as we don’t want to miss telling guests anything that could impact their stay. Now things are getting back to normal we are reviewing this whole system. Apologies too for the check in issue with key safe, we were pleased to hear our office resolved this quickly for you, our phone lines are covered 24/7 so we would have been able to assist quickly even if the office was closed. Thank you again for your review.