Banff Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Sarah-jane - Verified booking

  The house was spacious with mostly everything you needed.

  However all recliner sofa’s in lounge were really needed to be replaced, none of them worked and sides of sofa’s gaping from main frame. This made it unable to get comfortable on any of the sofa’s. Dining seats required to re-upholstered as no support when you sat in them. Unfortunately the cleanliness did not reflect a 6 hour change over, the shower rooms required to be cleaned with mould cleaner, both tray and shower head, fan thick with dust. The towels were at one point a very good quality however they were also in need of replacement, as they were very thin due to wear and tear and very small. Kitchen was excellent, fully equipped and was clean, utility room was clean and had everything you needed. We were unable to use the games room as this was full of boxes of flat pack furniture. Also when using the garden had to clean the furniture as it was covered in cobwebs and bird poo. Overall the house met our parties needs however, the small extras received from other rentals were not there, despite this property being for 8 and we only had 3 staying. Thus we had to go out and buy toilet and kitchen roll, Would certainly use Sykes Cottages again but would not return to 15 Waters edge as the standard and quality did not reflect the price for a weeks stay. The house is situated for access by foot to Banff, Banff Links and Duffhouse Royal Golf Course.

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• Sheilagh - Verified booking

  This is basic bare minimum.

  Toilet door has not been hung properly and jams. Bath seal not done properly. Would remove most of damp smell from this end area. Shower screen useless. Bare minimum of cutlery and towels. No mattress covers and poor quality bedding. Mattresses atrocious. No storage in 2 bedrooms. No facilities in garden for drying. Kitchen cupboard sliding door needs hung properly. Good wi fi. General area is very run down. Macduff has become a dump and not what i remember. Strange place for a holiday let. We won't be back. Parking sometimes difficult. Not a safe area at night and noisy neighbours. The rest of the coastal villages seem not to have got as run down. Aberdeenshire is still a place we will visit but Macduff will not be on our list.

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• Mary - Verified booking

  15 Water’s Edge is a beautiful property which met all of our needs.

  It has a great family kitchen-dining area and separate sitting room downstairs. There is also a games room and there are plenty of screens throughout the house with a variety of streaming services which kept everyone happily occupied when the weather wasn’t so good, but the view is to die for. We spent hours watching the waves across from the house, through the window but also on our walks. Great walks by the sea towards Whitehills and Macduff and a brilliant restaurant, the Indian Garden, in town. Other beautiful towns and villages are within easy reach: Cullen, Portknockie, Findochty, Buckie, Findhorn and Lossiemouth East Beach are all worth a look. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this property.

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• Phyllis - Verified booking

  Comfortable, well-presented, compact property, conveniently situated in Banff, with good parking and amenities nearby.

  We were pleased to meet the property owner, as he arrived just as we were leaving. We were able to flag up the small problems that we had within the property eg. the position of the microwave oven, and lack of mixing bowls for cooking or extra dishes to make the running of the dishwasher more ecologically sound. The main problem was the difficulty in accessing the keys in the key safe, although it did eventually open after a ten-minute struggle and a torn thumb-nail. That problem was solved on our leaving, with his timely arrival as, again, the key safe was giving trouble.

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• James - Verified booking

  This is a lovely property, stayed this time last year, liked it so much booked again this year.

  .. However.. Last year reported to owners the heating was faulty, the living room sofa broken...... This year bitterly disappointed, the sofa still broken, both shower still faulty ( too hot, boiler been turned down low to compensate ) On top of this, main bedroom mattress need replacing along with pillows, On the plus side heating has been fixed, other things not...... sorry not good enough for a 5 star property. Sad to say wouldn't return again, because the house and location is lovely

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