We have just returned home from a fantastic 4 days at Fern Cottage. Never before have we received such a warm welcome. Sue and Pete were the perfect hosts on all accounts. They helped us with information re local restaurants, visitor attractions and travel. Sue's Choccy cookies were the best we had tasted, as was her homemade Granola. The bedroom...
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National Award Winning Fern Cottage Bed and Breakfast is set in 2 acres of a designated conservation area - 15 minutes from the City of Bath and Maritime City of Bristol. We have been graded by EnjoyEngland and received a 4 STAR top SILVER Award for our exceptional service, hospitality and food.We have just received the Highly Commended Award for Bed and Breakfast of the Year from VisitEngland after attending the prestigious VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2013 in Manchester on 20th May. We are very proud to be in the top 5 bed and breakfast businesses in England. We have now received 20 Awards for customer service, hospitality and our food.We have cooked for Gary Rhodes and Michael Caines in the UKTV Local Food Hero and received Finalist for the whole of the South West.We have received over 20 Awards for our food, service and hospitality and have just recently received Bed and Breakfast of the Year 2012 from Destination Bristol. We are also the only Bed and Breakfast in this area to have received a GOLD Award for Green Tourism for the 7th year running. We also received a SILVER for the whole of England from Enjoy England for Sustainable Tourism. One of our other awards we were very proud to receive was SILVER in the Taste of the South West from South West Tourism Excellence in Tourism Awards and were amazed when Jamie Oliver's Fifteen in Cornwall were given the GOLD Award in the same category as ourselves! Three rooms are in our beautifully converted stable block with panoramic views overlooking fields and the fourth room is situated at the rear of the cottage overlooking the rear garden. All rooms have their own entrances, so guests can come and go as they please. We have put together an amazing breakfast menu using only local, home made and home grown produce. Baked eggs, devilled kidneys on hot buttered toast, local naturally smoked haddock with home made potato cakes, fresh herb omelette using our own delicious eggs from our hens and of course our own South West full English breakfast, using locally produced maple cured bacon specially prepared for us, old English sausages, potato cakes with home grown chives, a taster portion of devilled kidneys, grilled local tomatoes, sauteed mushrooms.
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