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Victorian 3 bedroom cottage, 5 minutes from an unspoilt beach in Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. Available for holiday hire.
Convenient features in the cottage
We wanted our cottage to be nice, cosy and make our stays and your stays easy. Here are a few of the touches we think you might appreciate.
We have built-in USB chargers, so all you need is your charging cable. New for 2025, we have recently updated to a USB-C point too.
The slow cooker is perfect for tasty meals waiting for you when you get back from a day's fun. There's a microwave too for a quick zap
The TV is equipped with Chromecast, so you can pick up what you were watching at home, straight from the app on your smartphone to the TV. And with fibre broadband you should have nice smooth viewing.
You can play both Blu-ray or DVDs (sorry no 4k!) and there's a wide selection of DVDs at the cottage too, with something to cover most tastes.
Fancy some music while you cook, or eat? The dining room has a Bluetooth-equipped stereo so you can play your favourite music from your phone or tablet. Or bring your CDs!!!
The cottage has a washing machine and garden and indoor drying line/rack.
We have a decent-sized frost-free fridge-freezer, Tesco and Lidl are a short walk away. Help yourself to anything left in the freezer.
The enclosed garden is well equipped with a picnic bench and BBQ, plus a selection of beach toys in the storage you're welcome to borrow (plus there's a beach toy library at the lifeboat station too).
Caister is very well served for pubs, fish and chips, as well as other takeaways.
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Availability calendar
Please check availability of dates with us at caistergetaway@gmail.com before submitting a booking. (Confirmed bookings are viewable below to give you an idea).
When you are ready, complete the booking form online here and provide a deposit of £50. The balance is to be paid a month before your booking or before.
About the cottage
FISHERMAN'S STROLL FRONT
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| Our little bench for shaking out sand after trips to the beach |
FRONT LIVING ROOM
Quick demo of how to turn sofa into a bed (25 secs)
KITCHEN
DINING ROOM
BATHROOM
MASTER BEDROOM
Front large bedroom has zip & lock bed (can be kingsize or 2 singles)
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| Bed and mattresses unzip to make 2 singles |
DOUBLE BEDROOM
Bedroom 2 with double bed
SMALL BEDROOM
Small back bedroom with bunk beds
ROOMS & FACILITIES
Fisherman's Stroll is a 3 bedroom Victorian terraced cottage built in 1885 in Caister-on-Sea (c.1hr 35m from Cambridge). It is on a small terrace just off the main road, perfectly suited for self catering holidays for couples, families and dog walkers. The cottage will take 6 guests, and an extra 2 can stay on the sofa bed. It provides a simple retreat close to the sea and sandy beach (less than 10 minutes' stroll) as well as a wide range of nearby activities and attractions.
It is available all year round, for weeks, mid-week breaks and weekends, we try to be as flexible as we can to share the cottage and help with costs, rather than make a profit. Have a look at the availability calendar for dates. All prices are below market levels for friends, family and other contacts, it is not advertised commercially. Click to see prices and how to book.
GROUND FLOOR
Lounge - The front porch offers space to leave coats and shoes, before entering a comfortable living room with woodburner effect stove, a sofa bed.
WiFi & Tech - There is free WiFi for guests' use during their stay. In the lounge there is a flatscreen TV, DVD player, Nintendo Wii plus small selection of family-orientated Wii games, and a range of books and DVDs. There is a Chromecast device behind the TV. Details of how to use it are here.
WiFi & Tech - There is free WiFi for guests' use during their stay. In the lounge there is a flatscreen TV, DVD player, Nintendo Wii plus small selection of family-orientated Wii games, and a range of books and DVDs. There is a Chromecast device behind the TV. Details of how to use it are here.
Dining Room - This leads to the dining room which seats 6 people.
Kitchen - The kitchen, although small, is well equipped (including a microwave and slow cooker) and the bathroom is at the rear of the cottage and has a bath with overhead shower.
Utility room - The kitchen leads to the utility room which holds a washing machine, fridge-freezer (68l freezer, 131l fridge) and shoe storage.
Garden - You can access the garden from the utility room at the back of the house. The garden has a bench, table & chairs and a children's swing. There is a garden storage box with beach toys and games - please help yourself.
FIRST FLOOR
Master bedroom - The stairs lead right to a large bedroom at the front with a kingsize bed that converts into 2 singles if needed, wardrobe and 2 bedside tables. There is a hairdryer and straighteners available for you.
Double bedroom - To the left is bedroom 2, which is equipped with a double bed, a built-in cupboard and 2 bedside tables.
Small room - At the rear is bedroom 3 a small box room with a bunk bed and a cupboard which houses the boiler (and a toy boxes with a range of toys and books). There is a wardrobe in the corner of the landing for use by bedroom 3 (and 2) as required.
Bedding - All beds have pillows, duvets and mattress/pillow protectors but not bedlinen. Please bring any bedding you need (as well as towels/tea-towels).
PARKING
On arrival you can reverse right up the pedestrian track (shown below) to the front of the cottage to unload, and then return to the road or to the close at the back of the terrace to find a parking space. There is sometimes a spot on the main high street near the end of the track, but at busier times, you may need to park further up. We will send you fuller details of where to find parking before your stay.
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| The terrace |
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| The terrace was built in 1885 |
Prices and how to book
To view
availability: you can look at our availability calendar
to get an idea of current availability - we'll update this as quickly as we can after
confirming a request. Please check your dates with us before booking via caistergetaway@gmail.com (We have so far let the cottage to friends, family, colleagues and their contacts. If we don't know you directly, please also let us know how you heard about the cottage.)
To confirm a reservation: Please complete the booking form online here and provide a deposit of £50. The balance is to be paid a month before your booking or before.
2025 Prices
Surcharges
Linen - The property is self-catering and to keep costs low, guests are asked to bring their own linen, towels and tea-towels.
Dogs - To cover extra cleaning costs to keep cottage attractive for non-dog-owners:
Dogs - up to 2 well-behaved dogs - cleaning surcharge £20.
Linen - The property is self-catering and to keep costs low, guests are asked to bring their own linen, towels and tea-towels.
Dogs - To cover extra cleaning costs to keep cottage attractive for non-dog-owners:
Dogs - up to 2 well-behaved dogs - cleaning surcharge £20.
How to find us & parking
Fisherman's Stroll is located in a small terrace of 10 cottages built in 1885 in old Caister. The terrace is tucked away off the mainYarmouth Road, only 10 minutes from the beach.
Directions
From Cambridge - take A14 east - once past Newmarket, join the left-hand lane onto the A11. Follow signs to Norwich.
At large roundabout junction with A47 south of Norwich, get in right hand lane and take A47 following signs to Great Yarmouth (3rd exit). Follow signs for Great Yamouth (1st exit at Brundall/Blofield roundabout). At Acle roundabout, instead of signs for Great Yarmouth, take signs for left hand lane straight ahead, for The Broads and Caister (A1064).
Follow signs until reaching Caister bypass (after a short patch of dual carriageway), go straight ahead over bypass. Follow the road over junction at Lidl, then over 3 mini roundabouts. Jubilee Terrace is a narrow entrance quite soon after Mullen Cycles on the left. It is hard to see the entrance on road until almost on it, but is on the left and opposite Adele Place (green street sign) and just next to house with high evergreen hedges.
(If you are coming from Great Yarmouth instead of from Cambridge/Norwich, then it is shortly after the East Coast Hospice charity shop which will also be on the right of you.)
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| Pedestrian cut through |
On arrival, you may drive down the pedestrian track (Jubilee Terrace) to offload. We typically turn down St Julian's Road and park round the back in Links Close (see map below). You can cut through the pedestrian gap by the 1885 owl sign.
There is also usually parking available along the main Yarmouth Road or St Julian's Road.
Things to do with kids
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| Pettitts Animal Adventure Park |
Caister
The freedom of the lovely unspoilt beach at Caister does something wonderful to the kids. They launch into squabble-free projects together and go home happy and chilled out. Can't recommend it enough and only 5 mins' walk from the cottage...
There are other lovely beaches nearby too.
Playground - at nearby King George VI recreation ground (Allendale Rd). There are swings, climbing frames a zipwire and an outdoor gym as well as the Rabbit Hutch café.
Caister Castle and Motor Collection and Caister Roman Fort are both worth a visit.
Caister Roman Fort ruins. The Caister ruins are a short 15 min walk from the cottage - the foundations of a roman fort which would have overlooked and protected waterways into Norfolk from invaders.
Photo credit: Danny Godbolt
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Burgh Castle You can find out more about the coastal network of islands and the very different geography of this area back in Roman times, with a trip to nearby Burgh Castle ruins which are one of the best preserved Roman fortifications in the UK.
Overlooking the Yare there are some very interesting visitor signs there showing the very different coastline then. Take a walk from there to the Fisherman's Inn or along the boardwalks on the river. (Great place for dogs and kids to explore).
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Hemsby
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| Crow's Nest, Hemsby |
We've enjoyed the Crow's Nest High Ropes climbing frame at Richardson's Holiday Centre and the karting tracks.
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Great Yarmouth
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| Marina Centre - Great Yarmouth |
Marina Leisure Centre (recently redeveloped) has aquaplay, disco flumes as well as pools. Also has Clip n Climb.
(Other swimming: The Phoenix Pool and Gym and California Cliffs Holiday Park in Scratby also have pools.)
The Arc Cinema in Great Yarmouth has 5 screens.
The refurbished Victorian Venetian Waterways and gardens has boat and pedalo hire. You can see more here.
Yucky Yarns - a guided walk for all the family to learn about horrendous history in Great Yarmouth. Gory stories and ghastly goings on with pirates, graveyard antics and secret chests!
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Gorleston
Gorleston splashpad near Great Yarmouth is a fun wet play area for children with fountain sprays, jet streams and buckets of tipping water all set within an ocean themed play area featuring a sail boat, seaweed and starfish.
Crabbing. You can fish for crabs at Gorleston pier or at the Fisherman's Inn at Burgh Castle - or further afield, Cromer and Southwold/Walberswick are famous for it. Walberswick even hosts the Crabbing Championships! Tips: Bacon works well as bait for your crabbing line and a crab basket makes it quite a lot less challenging...
Crabbing from Gorleston Pier
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Adventure theme parks
Pettitts Animal Adventure Park (30min) theme park is worth a visit with younger children up to 8 or 9 years old.
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| Pettits activities |
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| Pleasurewood Hills activities |
Pleasurewood Hills (25min) theme park is better for kids in a wider age range.
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| BeWILDerwood |
BeWILDerwood (30min)
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| High Lodge, Brandon |
Thetford Forest (High Lodge 1hr) is a favourite for us to break up our return journey.
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Animals
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| Redwings horse sanctuary, Caldecott |
Redwings Equine sanctuary (30min). Check opening times - it's free entry (also one at Aylsham).
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| Thrigby Zoo |
Africa Alive!, Amazona, Banham Zoo are all not far and Thrigby Zoo (10 mins) is on your doorstep.
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Wroxham
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| Barton House Railway, Wroxham |
Wroxham has a small model railway, open occasionally by volunteers at weekends - you can get a short boat ride over the river.
Wroxham also boasts the Bure Valley small-gauge steam railway (35min).
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Cromer
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| Cromer pier |
Cromer is about an hour by car from Caister and the annual Carnival in August has plenty to keep kids amused, including aerial acrobatics, processions, stunt/trick displays and fairground rides.
Cromer Carnival takes place in the middle of August and has a selection of animal shows, events, parades, stalls, fire engines, stunt shows, fairground rides. There is often a display from the Red Arrows too.
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Happisburgh and other locations along the coast like West and East Runton and Sea Palling regularly turn up fossil finds to visitors. West Runton had a famous mammoth find and Happisburgh was the site of the earliest known footprints outside Africa! Possible finds also include flint hand tools. amber, sponges, ammonites and belemnites.
Norwich
There's lots to do in Norwich. It's most famous for its market and cathedral.
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Waterloo Park is a large enclosed play area with sandpit, big splashpad, café, tennis courts, football pitch, bowling, small putting green and extremely well kept gardens.
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Fairhaven
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| Fairhaven |
Fairhaven Water Gardens (35min) with den building, plenty of room to run around and short boat trips on the Broads.
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The Broads
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| Hickling Broad |
Hickling or Ranworth Broad visitor centres for wildlife and lovely walks.
See our page on Walking.
See our Broads & boat hire page
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How Hill
How Hill - free entry to grounds, gardens and woods and cafe. Boat trips available. Family day out (dogs welcome).
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Sheringham
Sheringham Viking Festival (February half-term) has been lots of fun when we've managed to get along, make sure you're there for burning flame parade down to the spectacular live battle on the seashore.
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Somerton (nr Winterton) The East Somerton church ruins, which you can visit on this walk was reputedly destroyed by a witch - the local legend is that the villagers buried her under the church and the oak tree grew from her wooden leg and wrecked the church!
For fans of "The Greatest Showman" film - the 7ft 8in Norfolk Giant from PT Barnum's circus is buried at the nearby (and quaintly thatched) St Mary's Church in West Somerton.
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Kids activities in the cottage
There are plenty of books, toys, board games/Wii games and DVDs in the cottage to keep you busy. Have a look here at other suggestions rainy day indoor activities nearby.
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Places to roam
Family fun attractions