Welcome to Basebo cottage!

Family friendly living at the Swedish countryside, halfway between Vimmerby and Hultsfred:
• Cosy and comfortable cottage
• Calm, quiet and safe
• Loft, trampolin, bathing place, playgrounds and games
• Close to Astrid Lindgrens World (25 min)
• Childrens favorite!
• Sauna, perfect residence also at wintertime

The cottage:
You live in a nice cottage with a comfortable living room, a sleeping room (separable double bed), spacy loft of 19 squaremeter (max 5 sleeping madrasses), a bathroom with shower and wc and a sauna.

“It’s a pity that our English is so poor… we cannot explain well how nice and peaceful was to stay here in Basebo! TACK! For your huge kindness!” writes Abbraci dell’ Italia in the guestbook.

The pentry kitchen is part of the living room and there you’ll find a cookstove with oven, refrigerator, small dishing machine, lots of dishes etc. for cooking and preparing your own meals. You can also use a washing machine in a separate room in the barnhouse 10 m away. There are garden furnitures, BBQ and a trampolin and a sauna of your own. There is radio and CD player in the cottage, but no TV nor microwave (but you can get one if needed). But a guitar is in the cottage, if you want to play, and plenty of books and playing games! WIFI is available. You can rent bicycles for day-trips or longer excursions at no cost; there are plenty of hiking paths and cykel paths (also for gravel!) nearby. The lake is just 200 m away, there you can take a bath and have also the opportunity to use a canoe (canadier for max 5 persons).

We are open all year round!

“Caraibi? New Mexico? No way!!! Basebo is the perfect place for our honeymoon!” writes Elisa och Alvise från Italy in the guestbook.

Place and surroundings:
The cottage is situated on our 10 000 squaremeter large site, behind the cottage there a raspberry bushes and then the forest starts. The cottage is kind of guesthouse to our own place, which is just 20 m away. So you can have contact if you want but you can also life your life totally for you own, if you prefer. The village Basebo consists of 4 houses surroundet by forests and meadows, there is almost no car trafic and it is a very quiet and safe place. The closest villages are Vena (6 km) and Hultsfred (10 km). In Hultsfred you find shops, bank, doctor, library, swimming hall, railwaystation, restaurants, horseriding facilities, turistinformation and more. To pittoresque Vimmerby and Astrid Lindgrens World it will take you 25 minutes by car.

Some distances: 300m to the beach at lake Nerbjärken (220 ha), 2 km to the next hiking trail (Lönnebergaleden), 33 km till downhill skiing (Virserum), 50 km to the Baltic Sea, 316 km to Stockholm (4 hours by train, change once only).

Price and booking:
Price is 1 000:- per night at low season and 1 200:- during high season (times se at the bookingcalendar). You have your own towels and bedlinnen with you or book these for 100:- sek additional per person. You clean the cottage at departure yourself our buy this for 700:- sek. Water and electricity, sauna, bicycles, boat and lifevests are included. You can also rent an electric powered bicycle (21 gears MTB).

You pay the rent 4 weeks before arrival at the latest. If you should cancel a booking, you’ll get back already paid money. If cancelling occurs later than one week before arrival reduced by a booking fee of 500 SEK.

There are environmental friendly dishing- and washing agents, shampoo, etc, in the cottage – please take own ones only with you if they are environmental friendly as well. Smoking in the house is not allowed.

Closest railway stations are Hultsfred and Vimmerby (or Nässjö, then bus to Vimmerby), we pick you up there.

Specials:
Basebo förlag has produced several really fine books guiding you in our area. Check it out and plan your holidays already at home!

More information (please click the links):
Bookingcalendar to see available days
Pictures of Basebo
Media in the cottage
Blueprint of the cottage
What to see and what to do
How to find Basebo
What guests have written
Write a mail if you have a question!