“The cottage was generally excellent and met our needs.”
However the greatest weakness was that the instructions for the appliances were poor - in several cases referring to different applicances from the ones provided. The worst example was the oven. The instructions were for an electric oven but the one actually present was gas. Moreover it did not work well - it became obvious that it simply was not reaching the temperature set on the dial. We needed to give meals much longer to cook than we would expect, and there was a risk of having undercooked ...
However the greatest weakness was that the instructions for the appliances were poor - in several cases referring to different applicances from the ones provided. The worst example was the oven. The instructions were for an electric oven but the one actually present was gas. Moreover it did not work well - it became obvious that it simply was not reaching the temperature set on the dial. We needed to give meals much longer to cook than we would expect, and there was a risk of having undercooked meat. There were no instructions to connect to the WiFi and on arrival and no obvious signal to connect to. On enquiring at reception it turned out that WiFi was broken in the whole area, and it took 2 days to sort out. Once it worked it was excellent. In summary, an excellent cottage let down by a few details.