Pro’s:
- Huge garden, safely closed off for kids by two side gates
- Trampoline
- While remote, excellent location for exploring a lot of Wexford within 30 mins in any direction (car a must€
- Good sized house
- Bath US for kids (in en-suite), electric shower DS
- Good wifi
- Responsive host
Cons:
- We hadn’t realized that the kids bedroom was downstairs, perhaps our own fault for not realizing from photos, but this wasn’t a comfortable arrangement for us and others might also want to be aware
- Cleanliness; unfortunately we had some big issues with the lack of cleaning before we arrived, requiring us to clean the place entirely ourselves. We flagged these with the host who did apologize and refunded the cleaning fee but it did effect our week and made us not want to spend time in the house which was a shame. The response from the host implied that the professional cleaners usually brought in hadn’t been due to back to back bookings which wasn’t ok with us
- Lovely looking living room but not the most comfortable
- The house has fantastic potential but needs a good bit of maintenance / general upkeep; some of which I suspect would resolve some of the cleaning issues. In many areas it is tired and some things in need of replacement (eg kitchen implements)
- Used washing machine once and clothes came out covered in black dirt so we didn’t use again; ok for us as we had enough with us but might create problems for others
- No rubbish collection and no clear recycling in village (only a compacting machine to which you bring your rubbish and pay to use)
Tips:
Ask owner to have lawns mowed before arrival if you want to use the garden. They weren’t for us and garden was unusable - however - as soon as we asked, the host very promptly arranged for someone to drop by and mow them
Unfortunately we would struggle to recommend the house and wouldn’t stay again due to the cons which did impact on our trip.