Our overall experience at the house was a bit disappointing and we’d likely not return again. Whilst we were really happy with the location of your house, the lovely backyard, the owner’s communication with us (including getting an electrician out to fix the oven very quickly), and the aesthetic of the house which has obviously been a real labour of love, there were a variety of things we were disappointed about, esp when paying $220 a night. Some things were unavoidable and likely just us choosing the wrong type of house for us (eg. layout of house - lounge being far away from kitchen, thus we were not really able to cook and relax together and house being very dark and kind of gloomy) others things felt avoidable. The house was dusty and had lots of cobwebs. The kitchen didn’t have some basic things for general cooking. The toilet was leaking continuously and the oven had issues (mouse had cheeed through electrical cord - I know that this is hard to prevent). The doors and windows didn’t have fly wires and so when we opened the house up it was full of flies. The cot provided for us for our baby didn’t work and this would have been really hard for us if we’d not had another with us. There was not enough firewood provided and the fires weren’t made up in arrival, one wasn’t even cleaned out. The heaters worked really well and so we were not cold but we’d really looked forward to having the open fires.
The linen was great and the toiletries and fruit bowel that was provided were all very nice. We were also grateful to have been able to bring our dog.