“And the properly layout is perfect for a family.”
The garden is gorgeous. The house is spacious and the location is gorgeous. That bath in the main bathroom is the size of a small pool and it’s beautiful. However… there are some basic issues that should be sorted and one or two things that should be made clear on the listings. The main things that need resolving… 1. Dirty hot tub. We arrived to water with a green tinge in it, not heated up, with a layer of scum on the top and debris in the bottom. I’d have been tempted to think this was just unlucky… but there’s comments in the guest book going back months complaining of the same thing, which just makes me think the water is never changed. There was a real smell in the little hut the hot tub was in too. So, despite this being one of the main reasons I booked the property, I just couldn’t bring myself to get in it personally 2. Cleanliness in the kitchen. There’s a fly problem to start with, but I appreciate it isn’t easy to resolve. However, if you know you have a load of flies, then cleanliness, in my view, should be one of the key things. We took dishes out that were dirty and needed rewashing. And when we took the air fryer out it was absolutely filthy… so again we just decided not to bother using it 3. Loads of the lights just don’t work. Again, I saw this had been mentioned previously in the guest book. But it wasn’t resolved. The main lights in the master bedroom don’t work. The wall lights in the living room don’t work. The lights in the second bedroom didn’t work. 4. The couch was very lumpy, bumpy and old…not comfortable to sit on at all. When we were shaking the cushions up to try and make it more comfortable it was also clear it hadn't been cleaned in a REALLY long time. Things that need highlighting in the listing, I feel: 1. Huge area of nettles in the garden. I was traveling alone with 3 young children so was drawn by the garden. But there’s a massive section of nettles on one side not fenced off. Appreciate stopping nettles growing is unfeasible. But pointing it out would be helpful or even fencing it off 2. Wifi is too slow to do anything beyond send text whatsapp messages. I appreciate the area has slow wifi issues. Average speeds in the postcode is only 10 mb per second. But the wifi in this house runs at no more than 1 mb per second. I mentioned before I was travelling alone with children. Add to the fact there was no mobile signal and ultimately, I needed wifi to be able to keep in touch with the childrens’ father and other people. So this was massively inconvenient. I know there’s not much an owner can do about slow wifi all the time, but when someone advertises “wifi” at a property, you assume it will be usable. I had specifically looked out for wifi because I know signal in the area can be patchy. I’d also specifically looked for a hot tub but the hygiene issues were hugely, hugely off putting. It’s worth adding that on the occasion I contacted the owner about it, despite the fact there was nothing they could do, they did respond immediately. But of course it was impossible to contact most of the time anyway because of a lack of phone signal and a very slow wifi network. In all, this is a beautiful property in a wonderful area. But a lack of cleanliness, poor maintenance and unclear advertising in regards to things like wifi left me personally very disappointed.
