We spent 3 nights at Eureka stay with our 2 children (1 and 6), and my sister in law who stayed with her partner and baby. The photos of eureka stay are fairly accurate and it is indeed quite a dated old farmhouse. The fridge, oven with gas cooktop and fire are all new and work well. We needed to use the fire in summer as it was quite cool and we had young children, and my partner had to collect our own kindling and split some wood to use (which isn’t a major issue as were used to using fires but we would expect these items to be available and ready to go).
The house is fairly clean in terms of floors and dust, but there are lots of cobwebs and spiders (non poisonous daddy longlegs mostly). There is a LOT of old furniture and decor in the house so it feels quite cluttered and we had to be a bit mindful with young kids -the tv is a bit wobbly on a very small table and would be much safer on a larger stand with a safety strap. All the cupboards are also full of random things and not particularly clean or tidy.
There is currently a water restriction in place in the town which we were told about immediately on check in, and basically told no baths and only a 15 minute wash cycle on washing machine. While these aren’t the owners fault in any way, it would be nice to know if there are particular restrictions on our stay before arrival so we can make an appropriate choice about our stay.
The house is lovely and quiet being just out of town and we weren’t bothered by the owners or workers on the farm during our stay. Our biggest ‘issues’ were lack of cooking pans -to do a roast or cake etc (we like to choose Airbnb’s over motels so that we have these options for family vacations), and also there is no wifi. The listing stated wifi is available and on check in when I asked about how to use it, Ann told us they were hoping a maintenance man visited that day to fix it but hadn’t been, maybe tomorrow. The next day I asked Denis about wifi but was told there was only wifi at the shop 30m away and no wifi at the house. This might not be a big deal to many, but as a business owner I often do office work in the evenings after the kids are asleep, and I didn’t really want to sit on the shop porch at 8.30pm to access wifi while everyone else enjoyed the wood fire.