Holiday Cottages In Spain

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What our customers say about their holidays

• Katie - Verified booking

  A really special experience that I've never had anything quite my whole life

  Imagine a gourmet chef snipping green peas and herbs a few feet from you, while you and your partner cheers with the best cava you've ever tasted and have an amuse-bouche of homemade crackers with homemade green tomato jam and local blue cheese. Soft music plays in the background, a light breeze tickles the vines and plants and a gust of lavender and mint passes by. You're in the closest thing you can think of to heaven. This snapshot from Sophie's amazing Masia in Alt Penedes is just one of many that I'm coming home with. It's a really special experience that I've never had anything quite my whole life. All the meals are cooked with love from Sophie, a former restaurant-owner and cookbook writer. The food is a little bit of everything, as she comes from Australia where cuisine variety is part of the culture. Almost everything is from her garden to your table, and the proteins are from the best vendors in Catalunya. Everything is sorted, all you have to do is enjoy the view and say "your welcome" to your belly. The Masia overnight experience is equally filled with love and thoughtful details. It's a four bedroom, two bath house, fully equipped with everything you might need in order to feel like a king or queen. The towels, the mattresses, the linens, the rain shower, it all feels just so luxurious. There are thoughtful details in the home and all over the property, like little nooks to read, a zen garden to meditate, and a board game area. Sophie is the perfect host. When you have questions or want to chat, she's always available. When you want to have some time to just enjoy the views or chat with your partner, she seems to float away, in this perfect dance that only experts in hospitality know how to do. She comes back exactly at the moment when you finish your last drop of cava with another amazing bottle of natural, local bubbly from the region. You feel totally, completely taken care of. And it's divine.

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• Katie - Verified booking

  A really special experience that I've never had anything quite my whole life

  Imagine a gourmet chef snipping green peas and herbs a few feet from you, while you and your partner cheers with the best cava you've ever tasted and have an amuse-bouche of homemade crackers with homemade green tomato jam and local blue cheese. Soft music plays in the background, a light breeze tickles the vines and plants and a gust of lavender and mint passes by. You're in the closest thing you can think of to heaven. This snapshot from Sophie's amazing Masia in Alt Penedes is just one of many that I'm coming home with. It's a really special experience that I've never had anything quite my whole life. All the meals are cooked with love from Sophie, a former restaurant-owner and cookbook writer. The food is a little bit of everything, as she comes from Australia where cuisine variety is part of the culture. Almost everything is from her garden to your table, and the proteins are from the best vendors in Catalunya. Everything is sorted, all you have to do is enjoy the view and say "your welcome" to your belly. The Masia overnight experience is equally filled with love and thoughtful details. It's a four bedroom, two bath house, fully equipped with everything you might need in order to feel like a king or queen. The towels, the mattresses, the linens, the rain shower, it all feels just so luxurious. There are thoughtful details in the home and all over the property, like little nooks to read, a zen garden to meditate, and a board game area. Sophie is the perfect host. When you have questions or want to chat, she's always available. When you want to have some time to just enjoy the views or chat with your partner, she seems to float away, in this perfect dance that only experts in hospitality know how to do. She comes back exactly at the moment when you finish your last drop of cava with another amazing bottle of natural, local bubbly from the region. You feel totally, completely taken care of. And it's divine.

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• Ally - Verified booking

  An amazing holiday!

  An amazing holiday! We went to stay at La Masia as two families, both with a 3 year old and a 6 year old. It was perfect, from the moment we got there till the moment we left. The area is stunning, from the terrace you look out across the valley and cant see another house just rolling hills, in the evening the sun sets are gorgeous and then being able to see the stars at night is beautiful. It's so quiet too, you get to really switch off. Sophie and Michael are wonderful hosts, generous and charming, around when you need them but never intrusive. We were invited to go on walks with them and their 3 lovely dogs (the kids adored them!) which was a great way to find out about the area and see more of the landscape. We were slightly worried that the house might not be great with little ones (as its on a hill) but we shouldn't have worried, it was fine and very safe. The whole space has been sensitively and beautifully designed and decorated, the outside seating area in particular and the pool. We loved the pool, with it being natural we didn't need googles, our skin wasn't irritated by chlorine either. The hammock in the dappled sunshine...heaven... Sophie is a great chef and she made us dinner one night was was delicious, would recommend. She also stocked the fridge for us so we had dinner and breakfast ingredients waiting for when we arrived so we weren't scrambling to find a supermarket. Other little touches like mini seats for the kids round the coffee table, a swing in the old tree, board games, giving us inflatables for the kids to use in the pool, letting the kids collect the eggs from their chickens... all really added to making us feel welcome and relaxed. The whole experience just left us wanting to return. A massive thank you to Sophie and Michael, we are so glad we found La Masia.

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• Ally - Verified booking

  An amazing holiday!

  An amazing holiday! We went to stay at La Masia as two families, both with a 3 year old and a 6 year old. It was perfect, from the moment we got there till the moment we left. The area is stunning, from the terrace you look out across the valley and cant see another house just rolling hills, in the evening the sun sets are gorgeous and then being able to see the stars at night is beautiful. It's so quiet too, you get to really switch off. Sophie and Michael are wonderful hosts, generous and charming, around when you need them but never intrusive. We were invited to go on walks with them and their 3 lovely dogs (the kids adored them!) which was a great way to find out about the area and see more of the landscape. We were slightly worried that the house might not be great with little ones (as its on a hill) but we shouldn't have worried, it was fine and very safe. The whole space has been sensitively and beautifully designed and decorated, the outside seating area in particular and the pool. We loved the pool, with it being natural we didn't need googles, our skin wasn't irritated by chlorine either. The hammock in the dappled sunshine...heaven... Sophie is a great chef and she made us dinner one night was was delicious, would recommend. She also stocked the fridge for us so we had dinner and breakfast ingredients waiting for when we arrived so we weren't scrambling to find a supermarket. Other little touches like mini seats for the kids round the coffee table, a swing in the old tree, board games, giving us inflatables for the kids to use in the pool, letting the kids collect the eggs from their chickens... all really added to making us feel welcome and relaxed. The whole experience just left us wanting to return. A massive thank you to Sophie and Michael, we are so glad we found La Masia.

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• John - Verified booking

  An impressive stay in an Eden of Alt Penedés

  Our hosts, Sophie and Michael, have managed to make a paradise of beauty and harmony with the environment a reality, with great effort. A dream farmhouse: for the spaces and the silence, which invite you to enjoy the nature present outside and inside the house, which embraces you and encourages you to meditate, to create, to share unforgettable meals and dinners, in communion with a privileged environment. The spirit is enriched by looking at any point where one rests one's eyes. Two hermitages embedded in the omnipresent fault, full of intact forests, oaks, ashes and pines, are the horizon that presides over this unique space of peace. Contemplating those views from the natural pool, surrounded by reeds, bamboo, wildflowers, rockery with water lilies and native frogs, has been simply extraordinary. Rooms decorated with beautiful furniture, selected piece by piece. Each one with its own personality and with comfortable beds, from where one can delight in the views. Or the splendid kitchen, which with perfect equipment invites any stove lover to create new dishes for their companions in this room. An exceptional location in Penedés, close to everything, if you wish, but isolated from fierce urbanism. Sophie and Michael have been impeccable hosts, generous, exquisite but unpretentious and, at all times, attentive to the smallest detail to make us feel comfortable, respecting our privacy and, at the same time, as if we had been friends forever. A true art. What more could you ask for to enjoy a short vacation? A discovery treasured forever in my dearest memory: an unforgettable experience. Don't miss it.

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