Last Minute Cottages in Inverness

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Stuart - Verified booking

  Great location by the River Ness, a short walk into town with the Ness Islands close by too.

  The property is nice and comfortable, we had a good stay and enjoyed our holiday. Having off-road parking is great especially so close to the town itself. My only reservations are as follows. Constructive criticism only and not a big moan. The property is directly off Ness Walk which does mean you have a lot of people walking by. At all times of the day, not great in the early hours of the morning. The property has no freezer. Maybe not essential, but not ideal if you have arrived having popped to the supermarket and bought frozen food. No freezer is listed on the property details but you would take that as a given. Nowhere to hang or dry clothes. There is a washer / dryer included, not all clothes are dryer friendly if you want them the same size as you put them in. The cooker is great once you get it to work. The letting agent must turn off the appliance each time they ready the property for the next visitors. In doing so the fan oven doesn’t work. There were no instructions at the property so spent half an hour finding and downloading the cooker’s manual and setting the clock which unlocks the oven. Far from ideal. The property guest book could be more detailed and include additional literature for the surrounding area. Little things. The property lacks the personal touch as managed by an agent rather than directly with the property owner. Ending on a more positive note, Inverness is great and this property is a great base to visit the town and surrounding area.

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• Margaret - Verified booking

  We arrived 16.

  00 on 22nd December. The temperature outdoors was minus 2c. The lodge was cold with heating set at 15c. The listing advised electric fire in the lounge. Despite requesting this from the owners representative this was never delivered. Inverness is in The Highlands and our stay was during the winter period. There is nowhere to hang wet coats, indeed no hangers or rails wardrobe to hang any clothes not even a coat hook. The kitchen is reasonably well equipped but there is no coffee machine. The Aga style cooker has a large extractor hood which is in desperate need of replacement filters that are thick with grease. Overall the central location on the banks of The River Ness and easy access to the town centre was appealing. Newly decorated and comfortable beds, linen and towels. The lounge room however was very cold with one inadequate radiator. Nice touch of artificial Christmas tree also appreciated as our stay was over Christmas time. Would we return no! The owners representative ignored our texts regarding the listed electric fire and clothes hangers.

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• Jennifer - Verified booking

  Porter’s Lodge was a wonderful place to stay for a week in Inverness.

  The location was perfect and a huge bonus was having somewhere to park our car. Overall we found the property very comfortable- especially the bedrooms; we slept exceptionally well. The facilities within the cottage were really good; everything we needed for a week away. The only criticism I’d have is that we had difficulty finding the instructions for the oven, etc but this was easily fixed by getting in touch with the contact for the cottage. Perhaps for ease these could be put into the welcome folder in the lounge as there was plenty of room. However, all of that said, I’d have no hesitation in booking Porter’s Lodge again in the future.

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• Clive - Verified booking

  We really enjoyed our stay and the location was close to the City and the Ness Islands.

  The welcome pack mentioned that there was a second set of keys in a key box - looked high and low but could not find them - this was not a problem just mentioned as the pack could be wrong and might need updating. Whilst in the cottage the heating developed a fault - error 1101 on the thermostat - googled as it was not in the manuals for the heating - found to be low battery youtube showed how to change them - changed with 2 new batteries and was ok. We will probably book up for another holiday.

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• Venkata - Verified booking

  Pros : We enjoyed our stay in potter’s lodge.

  Beautiful views from Living and bedrooms. Property is very clean and lovely. I would definitely recommend this cute little cottage to my friends and family . Cons : we struggled to get to the property with the given postcode and when called to the contact number given twice no one lifted the phone and didn’t even call back . And one more thing is we felt so cold in the property especially in the living room and kitchen though the heaters were on . Thank you !

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