My review is a story in 2 parts. The house truly is in a beautiful place, has a magnificent view and Kenmare is a lovely town.
Access to the house as previous reviewers have noticed isn’t great. It’s a very long, narrow, windy road up to Martins house then an extremely steep, unmade track up to the house which for any low car isn’t good! We grinded the bottom of our car many times.
For anyone staying in the winter, take heed that you have to pay additionally for gas used and it’s a €3 charge per unit....in typical Irish winters this can add a lot of money on your stay!
For a self catering property some of the facilities are not up to a standard I would expect from a super host. The oven doesn’t heat up enough to cook anything, toaster doesn’t work properly, kitchen scissors are blunt...etc etc so if you like us love cooking, you might be limited in what you cook.
The house is very tired, it needs an extremely good deep clean, some blinds don’t work on windows where you need privacy, we had an issue with hundreds of flies, the downstairs bedroom smells very damp. It really feels like the owners need to put a little TLC into their property.
Martins communication is great and he’s very helpful pre visit.