“The actual cottage itself is nice - good location, nice sized enclosed garden, nice bathroom,kitchen and woodburning stove.”
However, it is clear to see that this property was either lived in by the owners therefore they kitten out in chartiy shop goods or inherited by a relative. The reasons we say this are due to the poor furnishings i.e. in the bedroom there was a random floral eye mask, floral photo frame (with no photo) and some pine cones? There was a light up portable electric mirror which was broken (didn't light up), only 1 lamp in the bedroom (no lamp in spare bedroom), one office style lamp in the lounge. When we arrived under the stairs which was open plan i.e. no door, the hoover was dumped in full view along with the parasol for the garden and garden seat pads? In addition, in the lounge their was a horrible wooden box with stones in (looks like someone had collected from the beach), a trinket box which contained picture hooks and some horrible horse head bookends. There was a lack of heating instructions in the cottage - no cottage book with instructions and when we tried to adjust the heating it was in Dutch? In addition, the cleaning of the cottage was poor, when we arrived we picked up at least 8 piles of dog mess from the garden. We contacted the owners about this but they didn't seem too bothered about it, it put us off. We've stayed in many cottages and this one was nice i.e. the actual cottage, however, there was poor attention to detail by the owners. A washing machine and hairdryer would also be useful.
