5-15% discounts for Cycling Clubs, and sausages for others who arrive by bike. We have bikes to borrow – and lots of activity ideas for how to be green guests – walking, cycling, kayaking.

Our challenging environmental policy includes action on energy use, transport, water use, re-using and recycling, farm management, wildlife, history and the landscape. We generate more electricity with solar panels than we use; we have used British oak to make our bunkbeds; bedspreads are made of recycled Indian saris and blankets are bought from charity shops; we make our own compost for garden pots to reduce peat digging elsewhere; we provide 22 bikes for guests so you can leave your cars behind. And we’ve masses of activity ideas to keep your carbon footprint down while you stay walking, cycling (long and short routes) and kayaking. We’re green and we’re proud of it – and want to spread the word. Quote IHUKbike when enquiring.

Cycling Clubs planning their 2020 programme … why don’t you check out the many cycle routes in Suffolk? We offer discounts to cyclists who arrive on bikes but we also have 22+ bikes to borrow!

Suffolk can offer sections of the Sustrans long-distance routes (1 and 13 pass within a few miles of here) and close to here is the 69 Painters’ Trail, circular routes in the Stour Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty aka Constable Country, and our own Wool Town Bike Trail quiz. Store your bikes safely on our farm, cook (or we can for you) and feast together, relax and unwind and sleep well. 5% discounts to Cycling Clubs booking weekends and 15% midweek.

The Old Brooder bunkhouse is available for a min Christmas stay of 3 nights. Cosy, centrally heated. Cook and feast together at the long tables in the kitchen – and then relax in the comfortable upstairs sitting room playing family board games or charades. For the energetic, you can walk of the excesses of Christmas around the farm trails or borrow our 20 bikes to visit the local pubs.

Enjoy and unwrap Christmas in a seriously comfortable bunkhouse that sleeps up to 20 guests. Cook, feast and relax together and enjoy the outdoors on our peaceful farm.

The Old Brooder bunkhouse is situated down a long private farm drive in rural Suffolk three miles from historic Lavenham.  Accessible by train, within an hour or so from London, and 16 miles of Colchester, Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich.  The bunkhouse us available from 20-29th December with a charge of £1900 for minimum 3 nights. Cook your Christmas feast and eat together at long tables, relax and enjoy time together in the cosy sitting room that can seat you all together. Stylish bunks and conventional beds for 20.

3-night min @ £1,900.