Woodland Waters Ltd Omdömen 

We stayed at Woodland Waters for the first week of September 2025 in Birch Lodge, advertised as a luxury log cabin with a hot tub. Unfortunately, our experience fell far short of expectations.

From the moment we arrived, the lodge smelled strongly of stale cooking fat. Every room had cobwebs and dust. The furnishings were poor quality: the sofa was torn and uncomfortable, the coffee table was so flimsy that a leg fell off when moved (luckily not while holding hot drinks), and overall the furniture felt cheap.

The hot tub did work, but being placed directly under trees meant it constantly filled with falling leaves and debris. There was also no provision for drying wet swimwear or towels, either indoors or outdoors.

The TV was not working correctly on arrival, & the inner door of the fridge broke, so nowhere to stand the milk. Though the site manager kindly came to fix the Tv. I raised my concerns with him about the state of the lodge — he was polite, apologetic, and even removed some cobwebs himself. He arranged for cleaners the following day, but sadly the property remained largely unchanged.

We had booked mainly for the fishing, using both the specimen and match lakes. Fishing was poor, and most pegs were in disrepair. Each one I used required me to clear litter before starting.

The restaurant and clubhouse offered a pool table and dartboard, but both were in poor condition. Staff even warned us that the darts were unusable, which turned out to be true. The pool table area was also overdue a thorough clean.

To the manager’s credit, he did refund 25% of our booking on the first day in recognition of the issues, and we followed up with him again by email. However, given that the week’s stay cost over £1,000, the overall standard was unacceptable.

Sadly, we left a day early due to our disappointment. While I hope management takes this feedback seriously and makes improvements, I would not return and cannot recommend Woodland Waters in its current state.

We stayed in 'Teal' lodge. The lodge has been refurbished quite well although there is hardly any storage space in the kitchen. The en-suite to the double room is nice although there is no-where to hang a towel and no-where in the shower to put soap or shampoo other than the floor.
The fishing was somewhat slow and there are a large number of swims on the match lake that need a lot of husbandry to remove branches that are obstructing casting and playing fish

I booked for a long weekend away for 6 of us so we could have some quality time and catch up together.
We arrived at reception earlier than we expected to so I asked the question to see if we could get into the lodge early, and she said that was ok.
We found our lodge and started to get our luggage into the lodge, the first thing we noticed is there were no hooks to hang your coats up,then we noticed that there were no bins except for the rubbish bins tucked into the underneath of the lovely worktops.
On first look around the open-plan lodge it looked really nice and accommodating.
We could only find 4 place mats and 3 coasters, the fridge was small for 6 people, as we went to our room to unpack we also noticed there was no hooks to hang your towels after a shower in the en-sueit bedroom.
The main bathroom with a shower also had no hooks to hang your clothes or towels, nowhere to put your toiletries.
We had a table booked for 7:45pm on Friday and Saturday night,
We asked if we could go through to the restaurant early and they said yes.
It was after 9pm before any food arrived at our table, and by this time it was way too late for me to eat.
The fishing wasn't great either, on the first afternoon we found a dead goose in the match lake and reported it to the bailiff,and the next day and the day after that.
He just shrugged his shoulders, I told the receptionist on the Monday morning when we left about the goose, and she replied that she would look into it.
All in all I don't think that we will be coming back.

The best thing about the time away was it didn't rain on Saturday or Sunday,and that we were heading home.