This cottage is very cute and if you come from the city I’m sure it’s a nice escape to the country. For us it was a bit too rustic...
The floors are very uneven and the place is generally a bit rotted and pretty unsafe.
A lot of the exterior timber is rotting out and there is some obvious water damage that has been gently covered up.
Also the house next door is an absolute junkyard and their windows look directly in to the cottage.
I wouldn’t be so critical except that I couldn’t find a single negative comment in previous reviews and so a lot of these negative aspects came as a nasty surprise. When we first found the place we were thinking “hopefully it’s not too close to that big junkyard” and of course it was right in the shadow of the junkyard. Also it’s a solid 45 minute drive from mount warning despite being right next to it on the map. Of course, none of these things were really the fault of the marvellous host but yeah I wish we’d known all these things before booking because it wasn’t really what we thought we were getting.
Again, it’s nothing against Haniel as a host, she’s a great host. And again, just because it wasn’t for us doesn’t mean it’s not for you. It was just a lot more rustic and bogan than what we thought we were getting.