Pool, hot tub and gardens
The garden’s a psychedelic sensation, a riotous kaleidoscope of colour that invites you and your dogs outdoors, whatever the weather. Play on the Astroturf lawn year-round, get cosy around the firepit beneath the pagoda, keep the kids happy with the play area.
Swim in the outdoor pool, heated from April to September, slob about in the hot tub, stock up on steaks and sausages for the barbecue and eat out under the canopy. Spread out amid Somerset’s serene silence.
Living spaces
Over the BT Superfast Wi-Fi, you’ll break Instagram. Halula Halo is gorgeously unique, a converted chapel that’ll convert you to its churchy charms and idiosyncratic indulgences. Consider the play slide from the mezzanine into the ballpit. And who needs a dressing table when you’ve got a glam station for seven or so?
You’ll love the suspended relaxation net (head for heights required). What else? Sing your heart out in the karaoke room (or dance yourself dizzy). Get that moody jazz-club vibe going in the piano wine bar. Catch a movie in the cinema room and rack & ’em up in the pool room. All a bit much? Escape to the second lounge or logburner nook.
Cooking and dining
Cook on four fan ovens and two hobs. Fill the four fridges and three freezers with goodies from The Parrett deli, Pip’s Farm Shop, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and the Marks and Spencer Foodhall. Eat all together around the humungous dining table or out in the colourful garden beneath the canopy with burgers and bangers on the barbecue.
Not feeling it? Put your feet up and call up our chefs from Full Flavour Events or book a hog roast from The Spitting Pig. Treat yourself to a takeaway from Cardamom in Langport, the Art Tea Zen Café, Thai Mango or Kitchen. Wash it all down with some happy juice from Tim’s Wines.
Head out for an Indian at Cardamom in Langport or try maple-roasted pork tenderloin or crispy buttermilk chicken burger at The Firehouse in Curry Rivel. Get over there at the weekend for the bottomless brunch with all the prosecco you can drink. Or savour the Sunday roasts at The Black Swan.
There’s spiced chargrilled aubergine or confit creedy carver duck leg on offer at The Drayton Crown, or butterflied chicken breast and 8oz gammon steak at The Lamb and Lion. How about venison faggots or smoked-haddock kedgeree at The Lime Kiln Inn? Or try the sparkling taste of a Michelin star at Osip.
Bedrooms
Here in rural Somerset, it’s just the beating wings of bats that you’ll hear at night. Halula Halo sleeps 26 in ten super-comfortable bedrooms.
The Zebra and Star bedrooms both offer a superking bed with a staircase up to a kingsize loft bed, while The Flower bedroom is also a kingsize with a staircase leading up to two single loft beds. Brick, Leopard and Sheep bedrooms provide kingsize beds and Heart is a double.
Good as Gold, Whale of a Time and Pink Pheasant bedrooms give you super kingsize beds. Eight bathrooms ensure there’ll be no queues forming on the landing.
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Trout, wine and chutney
Canoe the River Tone with Channel Adventure Taunton, meet cheeky lemurs at The Bristol Zoo Project and work your way through 40 rides and attractions at Brean Park. Fish the Parrett for trout and bream, head back into history at Dunster Castle. Or take a tour of Oatley Vineyard or sample the jams and chutneys at the Bere Cider Company.
