Dorset Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Samantha - Verified booking

  Loved this beautiful cottage and found it very comfortable, clean and warm.

  It had everything we needed for a relaxing stay. Comfortable beds and excellent long-deep bath and great shower. A short and relatively easy walk to the wonderful local beach (and excellent beach cafe) plus plenty of other walks from the village along the river or on the cliffs. Two lovely pubs for eating out within just a few paces, plus a handy village store and post office. As per other reviews, yes the road outside the property is busy at peak times, but not enough that it bothered us. The front door opens directly onto the road, so great care needs to be taken especially with young children or dogs, but there is a latch gate outside front door. Didn't have any problems finding a parking space on the street near the cottage. Lovely garden and raised decking with seating, was secure, (but I and our dog were surprised by the gardeners being in the garden one day). It might be helpful if the gardener could knock to just let guests know he's there? But all in all a fantastic place to stay and we'd definitely recommend it.

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• Tracey - Verified booking

  We were disappointed to find there was no cupboard space whatsoever to store groceries.

  There was only two of us so not such an issue but as the cottage is for 5 people I’m not sure how they would manage . There is lots of mould in the bathroom on the ceiling which needs attention , the toilet brushes in both toilets were black where they havnt been cleaned in a long time. There was lots of little black beetle type insects in the dining room particularly round the fireplace / stair area and lots of cobwebs too around the fireplace in the lounge which we cleaned . The outside furniture is very worn ( not as pictured on the listing ) needs some TLC. It is also not clear from the pictures that there is a property next door whose kitchen looks directly onto the sundeck area in the garden . Also the oven took a VERY long time to get up to temperature (20 mins) We were disappointed with it really for how much we paid £1300+ . Its in a great location and is a lovely cottage we just felt like it needed a good deep clean and a bit of TLC.

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• Mark - Verified booking

  The cottage was poor.

  We found biscuit full of mould in the ground floor WC. The property was damp and alit if signs of mould. Plates/glasses were chipped but was fully equipped. The fridge was freezing the milk and food. The curtains were not hanging correctly The hall radiator was leaking and the cleaner confirmed this had been reported several times. A constant finding of insects linked with damp were being picked up before the dogs. We hired a Sykes thatched cottage 2 years before in Pucknowle Dorset and it was much better, being larger, clean tidy and did not have damp. What makes it worse this was advertised being larger and secure which it certainly was not. The gardener came before we left very early and began to cut grass and hedges, with no warning, which was not acceptable when we had dogs. The only positive it was central to the places we wanted to visit. Due to the above we just mainly used it for sleeping and eating drinking on our travels

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• Christopher - Verified booking

  Whilst the cottage was generally clean and tidy our holiday was ruined by the roadworks right outside the cottage only 4 feet from the front door.

  We were only given a weeks notice that this would be happening and had we known sooner we would not have booked. Having been told work would be done after 20.00hrs we put up with traffic lights and workmen all day and our last night ruined the whole holiday as work started at 22.15hrs when the road surface was removed with large noisy machinery outside the bedroom window when the house literally shook with the vibration! The road was then re-surfaced and this work took most of the night making sleep impossible. This was all punctuated by the workmen shouting at each other to be heard over the noise of the machinery. We are still feeling jaded having driven home exhausted by lack of sleep and feeling very angry and disappointed about what should have been a restful weeks holiday. Had there been any sort of emergency I dread to think of how any vehicle would have responded through the melee out in the road!

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• Jane - Verified booking

  Bramble cottage is a beautifully presented property in a lovely location.

  The local beaches have ample parking and are easily accessible, most are dog friendly at least in one direction. The cottage was absolutely immaculate with all necessary facilities. The beds were very very comfortable. Before we arrived we were slightly concerned with some previous comments regarding the parking/busy street and garden. We managed to park on the street opposite the property every time we went out and came back, there was never any issue parking (early July). The road is busy but I wouldn’t say it was too noisy. The garden is absolutely lovely, we had perfect weather and spent time in the garden every day. We have 2 dogs, one of which is a professional escape artist, the garden is 100% secure. I was never concerned about letting the dogs out. Overall I wouldn’t hesitate to book this property again. The only negative - not enough coat hangers

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