The Comb · Northumberland
Terms and booking.
The terms for self-catering stays in the Comb Lodge and the Farmhouse. Weddings and corporate stays have their own, which we send with a quote.
Booking
A booking is confirmed when we have received half of the total. The balance is due 30 days before you arrive. For bookings made within 30 days of arrival, the whole amount is due on booking.
Paying
By bank transfer. We can take a card payment if you need us to.
Cancellation
The first payment is a down payment: it secures your dates and stops anyone else booking them. If you cancel and another party takes your dates, we refund it in full. If the dates stay empty, the down payment is kept.
Damage deposit
£500, taken with the balance and repaid a few days after you leave. Breakages and damage come out of it at cost; anything beyond it we would talk about. Most groups get the whole deposit back.
Arrival and departure
Check-in is from 4pm and check-out by 10am. If there is no booking the day before or after, we can be more flexible; ask.
Minimum stay
Three nights at weekends from April to October, two nights from November to March, four over Christmas and New Year. Midweek stays by arrangement.
Numbers
The Lodge sleeps 20 and the Farmhouse 10. Tell us if your numbers change. A party of up to 50 in the Lodge is possible if you ask us first.
Weddings
Weddings and wedding celebrations are not available on a self-catering basis. If you would like to marry here, or celebrate a wedding here, tell us and we will talk it through with you. See weddings.
Hen and stag parties
Welcome. We ask that you return the property as you find it. We will clean, but please let us know if there were any breakages or damage. No glitter or confetti: in a building this size it is impossible to remove.
Dogs
Welcome in both houses. Off the furniture, out of the bedrooms, and the grounds cleared up after them.
Smoking
Not in the buildings. Outside is fine; cigarette ends put out and in the bins.
Music
In the Barn until midnight. In the Lodge, your own music in your own bar; we ask that windows are closed after midnight.
Fireworks and lanterns
Lanterns are fine. Fireworks need suitably qualified people who clear up afterwards, and care in dry weather.
Linen, towels and cleaning
Bed linen and towels are included. There is no cleaning fee and no housekeeping during a stay; for longer stays it may be possible by arrangement.
What is not included
Activities, the Observatory, clays, bikes, cooks and caterers are run by local businesses and booked and paid for by you directly.
Questions about any of this: ask us.