Great Cottage with great views
Review Submitted: November 30, 2011
Date of Stay: October 2011
Beautiful views, beautiful weather, wonderful getaway! We, my dog and me, arrived Thursday afternoon under some stormy weather conditions...tornadoes, thunder and tidal anomalies. Exciting conditions! Seriously only a strong breeze up the river made for some fairly strong surf on the beach and I went to bed listening to waves beating on the shore. Yes the beach is that close to the cottage! My son, daughter-in-law and granddaughters arrived of Friday afternoon. We had a great weekend! The cottage is great. The photos don't do it justice, especially the screen porch and living room. It's much nicer than the pictures. My granddaughters loved the swing and beach; and the water. October temps were not keeping those girls on dry land! We found the cottage very complete and big enough for five humans and one canine. Pretty much anything you needed was there, it was clean, well stocked and accurately described.
Saturday we took a ride into town and had a nice lunch at the Dockside Restaurant, which you can actually see across the water from the cottage but is a seven mile drive. Colonial Beach is very nice, despite being a lifelong Virginian I had never been there before. The town is quaint and picturesque, with its many literary-named streets like Thackeray, Irving and Hawthorne, and the town beach is said to be three miles long. Water and boats are everywhere. The Espresso Station on Washington Ave. became a favorite coffee stop. But most of our weekend was spent right at the cottage. We cooked in on Friday night and grilled out Saturday night. There was little need to go anywhere else. With a full moon having just passed a couple of days earlier the moonrise over the river was awesome! Thanks Bonnie for having the place and allowing others to enjoy it. Just a short one hour+ drive from Richmond and yet it feels a world away. I know I'll return.
Pete J from Richmond
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