The house was big, and all the bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms, which was great. It was possible to walk into the town (although the walk back up was a bit of a struggle for some of our party), and there's a great park just round the corner for walking the dogs and just walking. There was a pretty well stocked kitchen and the team left me a bottle of bubbly for my birthday, which was a welcome and lovely touch.

I'm sure we knew that the house was at the top of a steep hill, and that there were three floors to it, but it was a bit of a shock when we arrived, and we had to drive down to the town most of the time because some of our party really struggled with the hill. The house was a bit tired and needs some maintenance work - some of the windows wouldn't open, one of them wouldn't close. A few of the doors rattled a bit in the frames (kitchen roll was a good temporary fix). The bedrooms and bathrooms were clean, but the floor in the living room wasn't, and the dishwasher was pretty grim, too - we gave it a quick rinse cycle before we put anything in it, but I'm not sure anyone else has ever done that!