Beautiful views, min. from Mineral Wells, & Graford Texas

This 600 sq. ft. Beautiful garden cottage is fully furnished with a full kitchen, KING size bed boasting luxurious bedding and linens, large tile shower and private water closet, dbl basin sink, full kitchen complete with complimentary farm fresh eggs, coffee, and other breakfast delights! Housekeeping available, W/D, free WI-FI. W/D in the cottage! Quaint, private and classy! A place with all the comforts of home without breaking the bank!

~ Cozy Living Room ~

Decorated with details of a garden cottage coupled with quality furniture, LED flat screen HDTV, luxury sofa with top of the line memory foam mattress and linens, Granny's rocking chair and a cottage coffee table.

~ Sweet Dreams! ~

This sleep area is decorated with a Joss & Main décor look is complete with a luxury posturepedic KING bed with memory foam topper for comfort complimented with Luxury Hotel Brand linens & luxury bedding. Unpack! The garden cottage is your home away from home!

We proudly supply luxurious white terry bathrobes-freshly laundered for each guest's stay. Hotel pillows and slippers (for you to keep) are provided for each guest. Use and take home or toss at the end of your stay.

~Additional Amenities At No Charge~

•Complimentary Wi-Fi access
•In-apartment safe
•Built-in USB outlets in Kitchen space near table
•Need something printed? We’ve got you covered, just ask!
•One free housekeeping service per week (mid week-pre arrange with us!). Daily house keeping available: daily housekeeping rate $35.00 must be pre-arranged
•Continental Breakfast provided (fresh ingredients left in cottage)
•The cottage has its own washer and dryer. We provide soap pods, bleach and dryer sheets for your convenience. Iron and ironing board are available as well!

Property access:

The property is secured with a gate code entry and guests have easy key code entry to the cottage, which is provided once guest secure their reservation dates through this site. Additionally, the property offers ample space for large horse/cattle trailers, jet ski’s etc. (easy access and turn around drive).

Guest interaction:

We keep to ourselves and let our guest enjoy their stay. Guest are likely to see us caring for the cats, chickens, cows, horses, goats, guinea fowl, and bunnies each morning and night, some gardening here and there.

Our chickens free range the fields during the day and are put up at night for safety. In the garden we have Honey Bee boxes so if you're allergic you will want to keep your distance but they are opposite of the cottage so unless you walk through the gardens you won't be near the Bee boxes.

If we are not on the property during your stay you will be provided a phone number to text for any local assistance or emergency. We have relatives and GREAT neighbors who've become friends and are also very helpful! The Ridge Cottage does not have a landline. We're happy to be as accommodating with your requests as we can be. Because we do travel ourselves we have house sitters who house sit if we happen to be away during your stay.

Other things to note:

The property is located on 20 acres on the crest of The Ridge overlooking 1185, 281 and 254 with a dynamic panoramic view of the valley and Texas stars above! We currently do not accept dogs or cats because we already have friendly farm fur babies.

Our guest are welcome to walk and sit in the garden, or visit the farm animals.

Directions:
Once you have confirmed your reservation with full payment through the site we will send you exact directions, property access and an entry key code and other helpful information.

Guest Manual
House Manual will be placed on the coffee table. It offers some important house info and much information about the area.


🤔Curious about our cleaning policy?

We get rave reviews and often read/hear in the online reviews and guest book that we “HAVE SET THE BAR” for our VRBO’s.... from WA to here in Texas. Our properties have changed but our dedication to providing our guest with an excillent VRBO experience continues!

It’s true, Christine doesn’t mess around with the cleanliness or the details of our VRBO cottage. Having traveled worldwide for many years she knows guests want! Even corporate 5 star hotel cleanliness ... is NOT good enough!

The run down: 👇🏼

In the cottage, anything that can be cleaned, sanitized, or laundered is for each new booking.

⭐️The floors are not just vacuumed for each guest they are also steamed.

WHY? Well because, a steam cleaner kills 99.9% of household germs, including salmonella, E. Coli and Staphylococcus, as well as dust mites and surface mold.

⭐️Area rugs that can go into our full capacity washer get washed for each new guest and the two that cannot because of size are sprayed with lysol disinfectant spray, then vacuumed.

⭐️Light switches, knobs, handles, cupboards etc- all sanitized. A/C screen cleaned for each guest. And all surfaces are dusted and cleaned, as are appliances.

Christine prepares snacks, food, refrigerator items herself and retains a food handlers license with Texas for this purpose.

⭐️Any used dishes, pots, pans, etc. are ran through a dishwasher sanitization cycle & replaced by Christine.

⭐️The Keurig coffee maker is ran through a cleaning (descaling every 3 months using a descaling solution to keep the brewer free from scale or lime build up). In between guests a bleach water solution is used to clean the outside of the kuerig, the water reservoir, then 8oz of RO filtered water is ran through the system before filling the reservoir with fresh Reverse Osmosis filtered water for new guests.

“Our guests get their space cleaned in the way that I clean my own home for my own family and we are very healthy” -Christine .

We have been extremely healthy through all the “stuff” and to our knowledge so have all our visiting guests. We’ve had no issues. On the note of cleanliness....keep in mind we are a strictly non smoking , non vape, not THC 🚭property- inside and out- Smoking is gross 🤮, dirty and unhealthy, so say the docs.!

⭐️Our guest can look forward to an abundance of snacks, breakfast items: cereal, milk, farm fresh eggs, half & half for coffee, & makings for morning mimosas & many other amenities. Most items are organic, all are complimentary including a complimentary bottle of wine and local Mirrimac & Merrimac & North fresh baked cookies.

⭐️The above has all been our protocol long BEFORE covid... and it will stay this way.

We’ve been told numerous times that we should be charging much more but we have been happy with our guests. And we do it because Christine loves hospitality!

👉🏻 We don’t accept just anyone. If we don’t feel the cottage is a good fit for a booking request we try to be helpful & point them to another local Vrbo/Airbnb or bed & breakfast. For example: an issue with Max capacity, smoking preference, travel companions aka:fur babies...

Now you’re in the know! Come see us!