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BEACH VIEW - YOU WILL HAVE THE MOST AMAZING HOLIDAY IN ALL WEATHERS BECAUSE OF ITS UNIQUE POSITION AND THE MANY THINGS TO DO AND SEE  IN THE AREA.  Look at our guest feedback and check it out up to date in the guest book in the property!




Beach View appeared in the Saturday Times on 16 June 2016 , listed as number 4 of " 12 Great Houses by the Sea"


Guardian Newspaper ranked Beach View Top Of UK Section of "100 Best Beach Holidays Worldwide" - see text of full article below.


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Beach View is a beautifully presented, spacious, light and airy detached house occupying a stunning position directly on the sea front. Being a holiday cottage with style, it has breath-taking panoramic sea (and beach!) views, from Hengistbury Head across to Poole Bay. This property is wheelchair friendly with flat access to the ground floor bedroom and bathroom. The gentle washing of the sea can be heard from the house. A short walk takes you to the coastal zig zag path down to the glorious seven miles of golden beaches (voted Best Beach in the UK). A superb 34' long conservatory leads out to a garden with decked area.


For many years we searched for a 5 star  place to hire right on the beach in Dorset (with a sandy beach you could safely swim in and 101 things to do and see within easy access of London). Unfortunately this proved impossible until we discovered Beach View. It is our great pleasure for it to be enjoyed by you. 

The house now has 4 bedroom and 4 bathrooms (2 of which are en suite shower, wc, basin). A lot of homes portray they are directly on the sea but there  is just one of a row of  20 homes where there is no road between your garden and the sea! That means you get the sound and the full experience.


This holiday cottage at a glance

  • Sleeps eight guests.
  • Four bedrooms, two en-suite shower rooms and two bathrooms.
  • Wheelchair access to ground floor bedroom and bathroom.
  • Lovely garden with decked area overlooking the beach.
  • Balcony from two of the first floor bedrooms.
  • Off road parking for two vehicles and unrestricted road parking.
  • Sorry, no pets.
  • Super fast fibre WiFi.
  • Minimum of a three night stay.

Additional features

  • Free access for four guests (at any one time) to a luxury child friendly hotel's heated indoor and outdoor pool, including Jacuzzi, sauna and gym facilities, a 10 minute drive away.
  • A free Beach hut also available for use during June and July, otherwise by separate agreement with the owner.
  • Gas hob, electric oven, Two microwaves, american style fridge/freezer, dishwasher.
  • Washing machine and separate sensor tumble dryer.
  • Sky movies package and Netflix provided complimentary for the duration of your stay; Sky Q HD in five rooms (three rooms can watch different HD Sky at any one time.
  • Seven LED Televisions all with DTV Freeview (one of which is 3D with a limited selection of 3D DVDs provided.
  • Two travel cots and two highchairs are available on request.
  • Garden furniture.


In order to get price information and book click contact us on hcmfamilyhome@gmail.com.


WHERE ARE WE?

We are right on the coast front line beach (no road in front) in Southbourne which is between historic town of Christchurch and Bournemouth. I am pleased to report that the 7 mile Golden stretch of Beach (which starts in Bournemouth and finishes at Hengistbury Head ) has been voted as the 4th best destination in Europe and the best in England by Tripadvisor - just remember Beach View is on the very best bit of that beach with views towards Bournemouth/ Harry Rocks to your right and Hengistbury Head and Isle of white to your left. You are nearer to the nature reserve and do recommend you walk to the top of the Head.



 

   

View from inside the beach hut - note windbreaks, umbrella,  deck chairs, body boards and inside the side cabinet are buckets, spades and some balls - not guaranteed as contents vary!   The beach hut is about a 6 minute (for an 11 year old - if you have elderly guests or young children it will take longer and you may wish to park above the cliff path) or so walk from the cottage Beach View


Beach in front of house (below) and second picture is of the moon light from the decking


Text  below of  above article on Beach View from Guardian newspaper travel section for Best Beach holidays worldwide ( listed top of UK section)."Beach View, Dorset. The penny dropped on the second day that, unlike in the tropics, here, on the south coast of England, we could sleep with the windows open without offering ourselves as a main course at a mosquitoes' banquet.

Sun poured in through the sliding door - which had been open all night - and there was no sound other than the swoosh of the waves. Looking out to sea, just discernible were Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck and, to the west, the heat-hazy apartment blocks of Bournemouth.

Birds flitted in and out of the garden beneath our bedroom balcony and the wind riffled lazily through the plants and bushes. Below and beyond the garden stretched a golden strand.
The view of sand, sea and sky from the back of the house called to mind the free-spiritedness of John Masefield's poem Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky."
In complete contrast, through the front door of our clifftop chalet bungalow, lay suburbia. Southbourne, just east of Bournemouth, became a resort in the 1880s, its climate deemed ideal for the asthmatic and tubercular. Now apartments fill the gaps between pre-war bungalows and cover the once-substantial gardens of Victorian villas but there is little else apart from a parade of shops and commuter traffic.
Our beach house was a Tardis. Not just because it enabled us to pass from manicured suburbia (front door) to untamed seascape (back views), but also because it was rooted in an era before self-catering places went open-plan. It was wonderful having rooms: kitchen across the hall from a large utility, a bathroom and downstairs bedroom, elegant separate bay-windowed sitting and dining rooms looking out to sea. Off these was a large conservatory which gave dinner a Mediterranean air but compromised the original bays somewhat and heated up a lot in the day.
Upstairs, three bedrooms and a bathroom were filled with sunlight. Apart from nautical striped curtains there were no attempts at an interior "scheme", just a terrific sense of calm and peace.
Each day started with a walk, barefoot, along the sand, reached via steep but asphalted cliff paths (left or right out of the Tardis, it didn't matter). Before 7am it was utterly deserted, after that we met dog walkers and cyclists on the promenade, the peace occasionally interrupted by the roar of a lone jet ski.
We explored the coastline, hunting for sharks' teeth at Barton-on-Sea, sipping tea at Christchurch quay, and walking around Hengistbury Head one morning to the beach huts of Mudeford.
"The pace of life isn't a drama here," observed my bloke, contentedly, while we slipped effortlessly from lattes to lunch at the Beach House Cafe, eating oily bruschetta and Thai cod cakes whose mint-laden mayonnaise evoked not Asia but Sunday lunch.
We watched tides ebb and flow, sat on marinas, ate wonderful fish and chips and licked strawberry and vanilla ice creams. At the end of each day we collapsed, drained by the heat, in our suburban des res - for all the world like Terry and June - and watched the huge telly in the sitting room.
Leaving, Masefield's uplifting lines hovered on my lips again: "And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by" - and as we pulled the door to we actually found ourselves saying goodbye to the house.
Sally Shalam

· Beach View sleeps up to eight in four bedrooms (two have sea views). Book through External link opens in new tab or windowRural Retreats, +44 (0)1386 701177.  External link opens in new tab or windowBeach House Cafe, +44 (0)1202 423474."


Customer Testimonials


  


Absolutely gorgeous house, didn't want to leave. Will definitely return in warmer weather. Very efficient housekeeper, house was immaculate and the welcome hamper was very much appreciated. The house is very spacious and grand, yet homely. The children loved the den and the cuddly toys. We enjoyed the pool , and was nice to have that option available. Sitting in the Beach hut in February was certainly an experience!  


PF London