The sun is shining down on Pitlands Barns today after a wet and windy start to 2024.

We hope you all enjoyed some well deserved rest over the festive period.

It was a busy time for us with group bookings occupying Pitlands Barns for not only Christmas and New Year but the days in between also which was wonderful.

As we find ourselves in a quiet few weeks of January there is no rest here. A chance to do those extra cleaning jobs ensuring our 5 Star 100% Cleanliness rating is maintained throughout 2024, giving our guests the standard they expect.

Last year was a wonderful year for us welcoming groups of families, friends (some the first since Covid) and many returning guests celebrating Christenings to 90th Birthdays and everything in between and many wedding parties from the surrounding venues.

We are looking foreword to an exciting 2024 welcoming new and returning guests. If you have booked then you will have received the link to our Airguide giving you all the info you should require for your stay and details of many of our wonderful local attractions ensuring your break in the Southdowns national Park is a special one.

Don’t forget you can have a peep inside the barns through our 360 virtual tour located on our website www.pitlandsbarns.co.uk

We look forward to welcoming you to Pitlands Barns soon

Kelly, Tim & Family

And just like that we are once again taking down our Christmas decorations after another fantastic year. We always decorate the barns with some light decorations and a real tree. We are lucky we have a wonderful local supplier of real bushy fragrant Christmas trees that bring the whole season alive for everyone inside the Barns.

The Southdown’s National Park is a wonderful place for family’s to spend some quality time to together, we have been grateful that many of these families have chosen to stay here at Pitlands Barns, enjoying all that our area has to offer. We have been overwhelmed by the amazing reviews and comments left by our wonderful guests and I just have to share this one from a lovely family that stayed over Christmas.

“Hi Kelly,

I just wanted to say a big thank you from all of my family for such fabulous accommodation. It was so perfect for us, and I love it that each bedroom has it's own en suite.

Usually, breakfast time is tricky as people drift in and out at different times wanting different things to eat, and the tea/coffee thing is endless whilst the cooks for the family want them out of the way! So we asked them to do their own breakfasts in the cottages to save all the hassle. Perfect.

The barn is beautiful and so well done, and the sitting and dining area is so spacious it never felt crowded.

My family thought that is was one of our best Christmases, so thank you again, and also for the bubbly and chocolates.

Best wishes”

2023 kick off to a great start with Christmas and New Year already booked out and summer filling up fast.

We look forward to welcoming you this year.

Kelly & Tim

As 2021 disappears into the haze we welcomed 2022 with two fantastic reviews from our lovely Christmas and new year guests and once again retained our Airbnb Superhost status which was so nice to receive considering our Christmas wasn’t quite as planned ! 

My husband had come up with a wonderful idea of disappearing with the children to the Alps as a family for the WHOLE Christmas holidays ! With Pitlands Barns amazing cleaning team all primed and everything organised we were ready to go until the latest french restrictions put stop to all our plans three days before departure. Unfortunately the accommodation he had booked did not include our very own Pitlands Barns COVID Guarantee ! Or any Guarantee for that matter - all i could do was bring out a mountain background, pull out the skis and don my goggles for a Christmas Day photo (see photo :) 

We put in place our COVID Guarantee back in 2020 to give our guests peace of mind in these uncertain times. Our personal experience over the last 3 weeks has proved to us how important this is:- To give confidence and peace of mind to our wonderful loyal guests, so we have continued our COVID Guarantee into 2022. 

Six months ago we launched our 360 tour and online air guide. We have been overwhelmed by the response to this with over 1000 views to our 360 tour already. Everyone should now receive a link after booking to our air guide enabling you to plan and book activities, restaurants etc well in advance of your arrival. 

We are very excited about the year ahead and hope you are too, it provides us with important opportunity to invest in continued improvements; We listen to feedback so look out for these. 

We are fairly booked up already and look forward to again welcoming our lovely returning guests.  We still have a few weeks available this summer for groups of 4 or 6 however If you are looking for a weekend in all three for 14 (as i write) the next available is Friday August 12th then end of Sept with more going forward. 

Break through those January Blues and look forward to an awesome 2022. 

Kelly

Summer thankfully still shines through during the day here at Pitlands Barns. The nights are cooling down and those fresh autumn mornings are starting to come through. 

It’s been a busy and exciting summer welcoming some lovely familiar faces back to Pitlands farm as well as lovely new guests. We were delighted to welcome back for the tenth year running our wonderful August Granary guests. In fact it has been our busiest summer to-date. 

As the surrounding views turn from summer greens and yellows to the seasonal spectacle of oranges, reds and gold’s we swap the BBQs for wood baskets and look forward to our guests enjoying long autumnal walks in the invigorating fresh air or simply snuggling down in-front of the wood burning stoves with a glass of wine or hot chocolate or two. 

We welcome our lovely winners of our Valentines Competition in November. You may remember we gave away the date of November back in February to be as certain as possible to our wonderful guests and to give them something to look forward to. 

Look out for our new air guide link when you book. It give you all the information from the welcome folder and more straight onto your device enabling you to search, book, plan you activities, lunches walks etc. from home before arriving. We have also introduced our 360tour – find this on our website to view in detail inside the barns. 

Winter bookings are once again strong with many of you wonderful friends returning to the tranquillity of Pitlands Barns. For large groups of 14 wanting to take over as a whole we are looking towards March for weekend availability. 

We look forward to welcoming you over the autumn months. 

Kelly, Tim & Family.

We look forward to welcoming holidaying guests again from April 12th, bookings for the summer are very strong. We do have some limited availability still available so if you are looking for that hassle free summer break please get in touch. Our COVID Guarantee is still in place.

Below you will find our latest update to Corona Virus. 

We have added face-masks for you convenience, please feel free to take them home with you.

We look forward to welcoming you soon for what we hope will be a fantastic summer here at Pitlands Barns.

Pitlands Barns Response to Corona Virus – Updated April 2021

Dear friends of Pitlands Barns,

At Pitlands Barns the health and wellbeing of our guests and our team is our top priority and I wanted to reassure you of the extra measures we have put in place.

• On top of our exceptional cleaning standards (rated 100% during our 5 star inspection by Visit England in February this year) we have introduced an enhanced cleaning protocol, which involves a 5-step process. This process includes sanitisation of all touched surfaces including door handles, light switches, key tags and remote controls.
• Self check-in: Please help yourself and contact us via a digital means if you require assistance.  We are still on hand should you need us and will follow the recommended 2 metre distance rule provided by the government.
• We have temporarily suspended placing our normal welcome pack for your arrival until further notice, and have added face masks for your convenience.
• Please notify us should you develop any symptoms associated which the Covid-19.
• On departure please can you, strip the beds, open the windows before you leave and vacate the property by 10am prompt.

Thankyou for your continued support and enjoy your stay.

Dear friends of Pitlands Barns,

The past few months have been challenging for many industries especially for travel and tourism. We have found ourselves having to close down twice now, but have been overwhelmed by the support shown by you our guests.

We realise that it is an uncertain time and that we all need that break to re-charge our batteries and get some well deserved R&R. That is why we have put in place our COVID Guarantee to give you confidence and peace of mind in booking your break direct with us.

If you are forced to cancel your booking due to reasons involving COVID then we will either:-

 A)  Transfer your deposit or balance over to another date agreed by you.

 B)   Provide you with a full refund.

Its that simple and that flexible !

Thank you for your continued support.

Kelly

Dear friends of Pitlands Barns,

At Pitlands Barns the health and wellbeing of our guests and our team is our top priority and I wanted to reassure you of the extra measures we have put in place.

• On top of our exceptional cleaning standards (rated 100% during our 5 star inspection by Visit England in February this year) we have introduced an enhanced cleaning protocol which involves a 5 step process. This process includes sanitisation of all touched surfaces including door handles, light switches, key tags and remote controls.
• Self check-in: Please help yourself and contact us via a digital means if you require assistance.  We are still on hand should you need us and will follow the recommended 2 metre distance rule provided by the government.
• We have temporarily suspended placing our normal welcome pack for your arrival until further notice.
• Please notify us should you develop any symptoms associated which the Covid-19.

Thankyou for your continued support and enjoy your stay.

Kelly  X

We are delighted to confirm that we are accepting guests from the 4th July with our enhanced cleaning measures in place to ensure the health and well being of our guests.

Looking forward to a busy summer welcoming new and returning guests.

Whilst having a tidy up during the lockdown we found this great picture we wanted to share with you:

Dear friends of Pitlands Barns,

At Pitlands Barns the health and wellbeing of our guests and our team is our top priority and I wanted to reassure you of the extra measures we have put in place.

• On top of our exceptional cleaning standards (rated 100% last month during our 5 star inspection by Visit england) we are cleaning and sanitising all touched surfaces including door handles, light switches and key tags between each stay.
• Self check-in: Please help yourself and contact us via a digital means if you require assistance.  We are still on hand should you need us and will follow the recommended 2 metre distance rule provided by the government.
• Stansted Park Farm will now deliver to Pitlands Barns – check their website www.stanstedfarmshop.com they offer a fantastic selection of meat, cheese, organic veg boxes, milk and dairy & bread and more.

Being located in a remote area of the Southdowns National Park you are still able to enjoy the fresh air and tranquillity of the countryside.

Thankyou for your continued support.

Kelly  X