Dog Friendly Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Heather - Verified booking

  I shall start with the good things.

  The beds were extremely comfortable, bedding clean. Hob clean oven could have been cleaner. No instructions on how to use them. Toilet and handbasin in bathroom clean.Cottage very close to the steam railway line. Cottage in a good location for seeing all the local spots. Anglesea was just a very short drive away. Now for the not so good things. Curb appeal not good out side of the cottage had a great big puddle you had to walk through to get to the door. Outside of the door was very dirty. On entering the cottage the door frames and the walls were very grubby. The windows were very dirty, not been cleaned in a long time. On the floor of the sitting area is a rug which is fraying and turned up at one corner a serious tripping hazard it is also becoming thread bare. On a closer look at the kitchen area things were not that good. Toaster dirty, pot that held kitchen utensils was very dirty on the outside, old food and grease all over it, looking on the inside it was discussing, filthy dirty I would hate to think what bacteria was living there. I had to wash the utensils before I could use them. Very heavy cobwebs all over the walls heavy with dust and grease, been there for a while. (not new cobwebs). The oven hood was thick with greas and dust, not been cleaned in months. Going up stairs the floor on the landing is wooden planks but they had been covered in a sticky back plastic which had started to split and the split plastic was very sharp and not good if stepped on in bare feet. Thick cobwebs covered in dust hanging from the light Main bedroom not to bad at all, just dirty windows on the inside other than that it was acceptable. Bedroom 2. Very small with a very high bed. Shelves hanging on the wall. Shelves were screwed on through a rope that held them up and the wooden shelf glued to the wall. One of the shelves had come away from the wall and could not be used. The head of the bed was right by the window. The window ledge was about 18 inched below the mattress of the bed. The window ledge was thick with dust, hair and rubbish, the windows were the dirtiest by far. Something had been splashed all down them, some white substance that had ran all down and was all over the window. Not nice at all. The venetian blinds were broken. Also the cord of the blinds were not secure to the wall and could quite easily get wrapped around a child neck. Also I do not understand the flashing christmas lights on the ceiling, someone who sufferers from light sensitive epilepsy could have a turn. Every time the light is switched on (even if you change the setting ) they come on at a fast flashing rhythm. I had to unplug it. Bathroom. The shower cubical was dirty human hair stuck on the inside of the cubical, an awful smell coming from the plug hole. On looking at the plug the waste pipe was mouldy and a black slime and hair down it. The plug itself was even worse had not been cleaned in a very long time. The smell was bad. A black waste bin was under the sink the top of it was very dusty and behind the bin was hair dust and fluff a shelf that went along the wall from the sink to the side of the toilet was also very dusty, human and dead insects along it. The bath towels are only a little bit bigger than the hand towels and would not even go around a child. Dust pan and brush, dust pan very dirty brush broken no handle. This cottage needs a deep clean to make it hygiene and bring it upto a 4 star rating. I would rate this as a 1 star This cottage could be a very nice place to stay if a lot of work was done to it. Also instruction to putting the rubbish out would be a good idea. Luckly for us the neighbours gave us the information we needed for putting out the bins for collection.

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• Chris - Verified booking

  We were happy with the cottage.

  It was sweet and suitable for two people in a lovely location, and would be happy to return. A few things however to improve it for other visitors: 1. we could not get the TV to work - no signal. And no instructions in the manual on how to use the TV. As it happens we don't watch much TV so we were personally not so concerned about this. 2. there is no washing line available, although there is a washing machine. There is a washing line immediately outside the property but we were told by a friendly neighbour that it belonged to number 4, and we would be advised (!) not to use it. In the end the super friendly neighbour lent us a free standing washing structure to dry our clothes. 3. There were no instructions re recycling or rubbish disposal. We put the recycling out when we saw neighbours doing so, but nothing had been collected by the time we left. We were happy to help but confused as to the lack of any details. Yet to put all this in context we enjoyed our stay, appreciated the cottage and would be happy to return.

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• Susan - Verified booking

  As you arrive at Norton Park its like a throw back in time to the Hi De Hi Holiday camp.

  However, once inside Beachcomber its modern, clean and comfortable and provides all you need for a get away break. Norton Park is very quiet and there are no facilities except a prebook pizza delivery on Saturday. so it really is relaxing. We really enjoyed our stay at Beachcomber there were just couple of minor things that prevented me giving a 5 * rating. The property was very neat, clean and well presented. However * the carpark and roadway area was very pot holey and the parking spaces needed remarking * the settee was very low and although comfortable it was difficult to get up off * we did not know about the electric meter in the cupboard, and although a coin was provided the electric did go off causing a power cut * on our first night we report a cracked wine glass via email to Sykes Cottages and have still had no reply over a week later.

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• Mr Peter Evans - Verified booking

  Excellent cottage.

  Ideal location for exploring the Llyn peninsula and beyond. Brilliant for our dogs, 2 Cavaliers. They were safe in the garden which was shared with next door but that was not a problem, it was secure also the front of the cottage was also enclosed. Only issues we had was the heating never came on. Did report it and Dewi came straight out but it still didn't come on, the cottage next door had the opposite problem their heating never went off so they gave us the logs they bought. The other small issue was you have a washing machine and a line so did some washing but couldn't find any pegs so had to dry the washing on a clothes airer which was under the stairs. No real problem will just take some pegs next time. On the whole very pleased with our stay and would definitely stay there again, if we go to that area.

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• Trevor - Verified booking

  Despite the owner knowing about the sofa for over 12 months nothing has been done, part of it is actually broke.

  So for 7 days we had to either sit on the dining chairs or more likely, on each others bed,having conversations room ti room. Shame really but it shows the contempt in which the owner holds its paying customers. The rest of the home is irrelevant ,after finding a big fault within an hour of being in the accommodation,especially one in which the owner has known about for a long time, makes anything good irrelevant. I'm disappointed in myself for booking it,and wasting over £400, I simply assumed the problem would of been sorted as the replies by the owner said. I cannot recommend anyone books this to be honest because it's simply a money making enterprise for the owner where the customer is an irrelevance.

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