We liked the cottage as a whole, nice character features and setting. The bedding was nice and clean/crisp too.
However, we were very disappointed by the level of cleanliness… the carpet was covered in dog hair, even upstairs where dogs aren’t meant to go, we had small babies crawling around. I have a dog myself (we didn’t bring her), so I am no stranger to dog hair, but when people are supposed to be paying extra to take their dog, to cover the extra cleaning, then I would expect it to be cleaner than it was. The bath had black bits in it, so again not the standard I would expect. The highchair was really dirty too.
I tried to hoover the place myself, however the hoover bag was full and was really smelly when I turned the hoover on.
In addition, the main big bin outside was covered with maggots when you opened it.
We did mention this whilst we were there, we were advised the cleaners would come again on the Saturday, however when we returned there was just a fly spray on the side, nothing else had been done. The owner (?) said he had come to have a look and couldn’t see anything wrong.
Just a side note too, we went on a really hot weekend, with the bedrooms up in the eaves, the upstairs was really hot, 29 degrees when we put the children to bed. We opened all the windows and external door, but that wasn’t enough. It would have been nice to have been provided with a couple of fans, we bought our own for the second night.
I hope this review is helpful.