Dog Friendly Villas In East Anglia

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• David - Verified booking

  6 a.m.

  shotgun-fire in the adjoining fields *every* morning sent us home early, more exhausted than when we arrived. Bizarre, unfinished renovation - certainly not "thorough" as described - unpainted bare plaster walls, no light switches for the kitchen near the living room/front door, the downstairs toilet is now off the kitchen where the hall wall has been removed, ugh. No measuring jug/spoons/kitchen scales. Single glazed windows with no coverings in places at the back, will be very cold in winter! Bathroom toilet doesn't flush properly, dirty windows throughout, unkempt/unmown garden... No welcome info on arrival, spent the 1st evening trying to get onto wifi (the arrival email came the next day). The cottage feels unloved/unwanted - nowhere close to other 4* cottages we've stayed in, sadly. The picture of the sunroom is taken from the Carr Taylor vineyard's outdoors terrace, making it like a fishbowl, completely lacking privacy - needs a hedge planting! Cottage is at the entrance to the vineyard RIGHT NEXT to visitor's area, which is just not made clear on the listing - it is certainly not private/secluded/away from it all!!! The lane is very busy with constant cars, vans, minibuses and full size coaches coming and going all day, sometimes making it difficult to get to the cottage and on/off the drive. Not "idyllic" as described, by our definition. However, the milk/butter and dog bits were appreciated and the log burner was lovely!! Well-placed for access to Hastings, Rye and the south coast, Battle, High Weald etc.

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• Suzanne - Verified booking

  Positives: Clean and nicely decorated, extra sofa bed if two single occupants arrive, well-stocked with equipment and mod cons.

  Negatives: The picture of the garden, that is used as the primary selling point, is misleading. The last autumn's leaf fall had not been raked up, the furniture was old, tatty and falling apart. The garden has had about three years of usage since established (according to the guest book entries), and it looked like no-one was bothering to maintain it. It was a big disappointment, as we had expected to see something more well-maintained like the picture. No guestbook, and occupant information like an updated wi-fi password or local area information was clearly displayed/provided. We used a clearly displayed sign for the Wi-fi password which was out of date, battled with it for half an hour, and eventually had to go and knock on the door of the main house to ask for the information. Eventually, we found informational items tucked in behind the TV, a day later. We felt that it was a bit of an oversight to not make the location of these much clearer or to update their sign. We felt that the owners of the accommodation could have attended better to the small things, and the garden was a big disappointment.

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• Mh - Verified booking

  We hebben een fijn verijf gehad bij Oak meadow.

  Het huis is gezellig en karakteristiek ingericht. Er stond een fantastisch welkomst pakket klaar met wijn, brood, chips en koekjes! Ook een ruime voorraad toiletpapier. Geen kaal huis dus. De houtkachel is heerlijk en er staat een mand met hout klaar. Er is 1 ruim tweepersoons bed. De andere 2 zijn smal. Goed om daar op te letten. Onze twee pubers hebben we maar het grootste bed gegeven om te delen.. De schoonmaak kan net wat beter. We troffen toch nog hondenharen aan van de gast voor ons ( als ik de andere recentie zo lees:)). Maar het is ook een ouder huisje met planken vloeren. Dus lastiger te reinigen. 1 advies aan de eigenaar: de kleine bank zit echt niet meer goed. Verder hielp ze ons heel snel toen we ons per ongeluk buiten sloten en er problemen waren met de watervoorzieningin de regio. Nogmaals dank daarvoor!

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• Mark - Verified booking

  On arrival we found the welcome pack very nice , but from then on we found the ...

  On arrival we found the welcome pack very nice , but from then on we found the place to be unclean I will attempt to send photos , we found the upstairs bathroom toilet dirty human fecies the bath was dirty my wife clean both and the tiles surrounding the bath , we found the clean materials under the sink and I would of thrown them out long ago , only one dishwasher tablet in packet and only one squirt of washing up liquid so bought our own from shop , dried blood found on mattress covers in two bedrooms and a nail sticking out of floorboards on landing , outside furniture full of rust and uninviting as mentioned I have photos so will send them onto Sykes ,we booked for 7 days and left after 4 ,house has so much potential as a holiday let but left unkept and unclean Mark and Mandy Richards

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• David - Verified booking

  We did enjoy our stay at Jasmine cottage , it was clean and comfortable, nice and warm too , In a beautiful setting .

  We did experience a few issues as follows . 11 dead flys on bedroom floor on arrival . The Wi Fi was not existent , the just about managed to watch one movie on the Fire stick we brought .Our other devices all struggled unable to use them much at all . Tv remote not working batteries had corroded, Ginnie housekeeper quickly sorted this out thank you . Sound bar/box wasn’t working at all and tv sound very tinny such a shame . Shower door came off its runners , handy man was offered but never showed . No first aid box , veg peeler , or bottle opener . Like others we did experience noise travelling from next doors adjoining cottage , which distracted from this remote setting , not a huge issue as our neighbours very respectful .

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