Quiet location and was perfect for us visiting family in the area also close to local amenities. Nicely decorated, thoughtful layout, and good size property for up to 4 occupants. Never used the garden but would be lovely in the summer. Felt safe, large drive. Really helpful,friendly neighbour helps look after the property. Towels provided but small so recommend taking your own.

Issues with the bath not draining away when having a shower so had to stand in own dirty water. Borrowed plunger off a neighbour and chemicals applied but still didn’t fix issue. Lights on landing were both out, and a broken glass lampshade in the main bedroom and a bulb out. Landing lights fixed during our stay. Bedroom and bathroom still not rectified on leaving. Having to liaise over issues and having maintenance try to fix issues while we’re in the property was not great as we were in the area for a funeral so was really not what we had hoped for. However a reflective compensation was given. No tea towel or wine glasses, and could do with more plates. cleanliness could be improved in the kitchen.

Convenient, temporary pied-a-terre

Better sited ground floor smoke alarm. Smoke alarm for upstairs landing. Fire Risk Assessment appeared to be for a different property.

The keys were where they said they would be

Cold house on arrival. Dirty bedding not changed, broken toilet seat (that had been pointed out by the last reviewer in October) an unfloushed toilet on arrival, grease caked onto grill pan in oven, generally a lack of cleanliness throughout. The inability to get finest retreat to be concerned about me as a paying customer, had to leave on first night because of the state of the house Finest retreat refusing to give a reasonable refund gave us one nights money back felt that was poor and unfair given the facts we told the owner immediately of our concerns. It was not what was advertised, so not what we paid for but not compensated for this, made to feel it was our own fault for booking it. Never again will I book with Finest Retreats