Based on the reviews, we thought this place would be spot on for my partner to enjoy a 4 day escape from the city. Unfortunately it did not live up to any expectations.
On a chilly evening arrival we discovered no firewood in the house, no fire lighters or matches. Opening the fireplace- it has a mountain of soot. No problems, I emptied, tracked downstairs on the cold and proceeded to the log pile and did 5 loads up the stairs. It was tricky as no carting device was supplied so ended up with a handful of splinters. My partner drive to the shops to get some matches.....
2 hours after arrival the fire was started. Hooray! I went to then wash my hands....No hand wash!!!!! Yep, in a global pandemic- no hand wash.
Again, my partner went down to the shops.
While at the shops I could hear A group of young males next door having some Friday drinks and ‘getting on it’. The music escalated, as did there voices, and believe me they were not ‘metrosexuals’! This went on till round 1am. The next day we woke up and went and got some amazing local steaks for the bbq along with some prawns and fish! Yum! By lunch we fired up the BBQ, poured some wines and we relaxing when halfway through cooking our food, the gas bottle went! Yep- empty! The sign said we had to take the bottle to the shop and swap in town which is a 15 minute drive. As we had had a few wines- we couldn’t go, so we moved the food off the bbq and inside. What a nightmare- and it’s only the 2nd day!
After cooking our lunch we went to sit outside on the large table on the deck which was filthy with sticky mess from the previous guest. The chair also had a missing support where you sit. Crazy!
I could go on-but I won’t....Basically the property is poorly managed. Don’t expect any nice touches of warmly feels- the owners are off site and the property seems to be managed by a real estate agent.
The positive part of staying here was the fireplace, the water pressure and the sunset from the deck. I stay at a lot of AirBnBs and I think this property is better suited to $170 a night cost, not $250.
Also I contacted the owners about the missing hand wash, matches, fire lighters, toilet paper, body wash, shampoo etc that was not supplied and they were happy to refund us what we spent, but did not feel safe handing over bank details.