Jasmine cottage is a lovely cottage in a picturesque Cotswold village near Burford. It has been lovingly curated by its owners and over the Christmas period had a generous welcome basket and beautiful real Christmas Tree. The quality of cleaning let it down badly and this has been taken up with Rural Retreats who have investigated and responded to us about the issues raised. Provided that Rural Retreats train or re train their cleaning staff to a higher standard and check the cleaning and preparation of the cottage ahead of visitors, I would recommend Jasmine Cottage.

The Cottage is very elegant and perfectly decorated. The living and fireplace are excellent and the overall atmosphere in the rooms is lovely and cozy. We loved our time there with two small kids and would recommend to anyone! The location is also superb, in a quite part of the Cotswolds' but a short drive from most places. The Fox Inn next door and its fish and chips were divine! Only drawbacks in the cottage are the bed mattresses - they are old and quite uncomfortable. With new quality ones the experience would have been perfect to very high standards! One last thing to keep in mind the kitchen is rather small - smaller than what it looks like in the photos. But for us it worked fine as meals with kids are never too static :). Check-in and check-out was excellent and the cottage was nice and warm at all times!

Would have given 5 stars but cottage hadnt been cleaned properly and a lot of dust and cobwebs present. We had to buy kindling for wood burner and the heating was controlled via Hive system- it would come on for a few hours but after that it was locked so we were very chilly most evenings. Mattress in main bed very old and uncomfortable- no protector either. On a positive note cottage was very well equipped with enough crockery and cutlery for ten people! Lovely welcome hamper too.