Isles of Scilly Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• E - Verified booking

  Lovely Cottage, really well equipped except for the fridge which was far too small for a family of 4 who wanted to self cater!

  The lounge was really comfy and cosy, some really nice touches such as the blankets. Loved the big corner sofa. Bedrooms were lovely and big and beautifully simply decorated with some great finishing touches. This cottage has lots of thoughtful touches such as the storage unit in the bathroom, the basket of board games, the pile of DVD's and the gorgeous scones and clotted cream on arrival. The only slight downside is Kenegie Manor itself, it's all a bit run down, the shop opens erratic hours as does the restaurant. The one night we went to use it they had stopped serving food early as they were too busy..... They did helpfully supply us with numbers of takeaways that delivered to the Manor though!! Amazing area to visit would highly recommend Mermaid pleasure boats - we went out and saw seals and dolphins. Also the Minnack Theatre had a great children's show - fabulous fun for everyone. Would also recommend Tremenhere Landscape Gardens just minutes from Kenegie Manor, we had a lovely lunch there and beautiful and interesting gardens.

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• Jannine - Verified booking

  This is a lovely bolt-hole, tucked away in the village of Paul.

  We would not hesitate to recommend the place and hope to return ourselves. However, previous reviews mirror our thoughts on the few shortcomings of the cottage, and need pointing out again, as they were recurring and not dealt with to date. Nothing in the place, not even salt and pepper?!! Not a thing to welcome you except a 'cleaning pack'! Not my idea of a cheery welcome I must say. Haven't ever been to a cottage where there wasn't even a pint of milk or something. There should perhaps be some notice in the booking notes to this effect, particularly when one arrives late and hopes to at least have the basics. One or two things not functional and no luck phoning the contact number either, bit tricky when there's only a landline number given and no mobile signal at the property. An email or mobile number would have helped... It's a gorgeous little cottage, we hope to return soon, please take the above critique as constructive criticism rather than a bit of a moan!

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• John - Verified booking

  We understood that Bell Cottage was situated within a Holiday Park and that the property was in a terrace, what was not made clear was that this cottage although privately owned was one of a considerable number of similar cottages.

  I doubt we would have made the booking had we realized this. There was no privacy to sit outside and the garden furniture needs replacing. We noted your advice to park thoughtfully - it was a shame other residents did not and on a number of occasions when returning after a meal out we had to park in the main car park. A big advantage was that the cottage was cool in the living room and the sofa was very comfortable and was throughout very clean. It was a nice touch to have flowers and the biscuits and fruit juice. We lost WiFi on the Thursday and the owners were really kind and helpful and arranged for an engineer to visit which we really appreciated. The downside for us was the location, parking and we felt the price was somewhat steep. However this was Cornwall following a pandemic and in the height of season but we do feel your description of the cottage is not truly reflective.

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• Helen - Verified booking

  This was a beautiful property and garden in a fantastic location.

  Lots of nice places to eat nearby including The Kings Arms in Paul and 2 Fore Street in Mousehole. The parking was sufficient for a Volvo XC40 but there’s not much room to park anything much bigger. It is a very narrow lane with a bend approaching the property which we managed with care in our car. This should be considered when booking the property. The pub in the village did say that you could park in their car park if you went there. We expected to find essentials like salt, pepper, olive oil, milk, hand wash, toilet roll, washing up liquid etc but it did not have any of these. When we have stayed at previous holiday cottages these essentials have always been supplied. We saw from previous comments that a cream tea and welcome pack was provided but we did not receive this. We used the BBQ a few times but the grill wasn’t clean so we had to wash this prior to use.

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• Ffion - Verified booking

  We throughly enjoyed our stay at 5 Parc Terrace.

  Newlyn is a lovely village with lovely restaurants (Mackrel Sky Seafood, The Bridge) Café (Duke St Cafe) and Pubs (The Swordfish) all of which are dog friendly. The house is in a perfect location to walk to Penzance and Mousehole and a bus route which runs through can also be used to get to other areas/sights of Cornwall. This information written in the welcome pack would have been useful. The house was on a steep hill, a good way to walk off the food and drinks, and we were lucky with parking to have had a pace on the road just outside the house. The house itself was decorated lovely, clean and was everything we needed for a week with our dog. The gifts on arrival were a lovely touch! Thank you for a lovely week and we would definitely recommend to stay here as a base for exploring Cornwall

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