Our stay at the cottage wasn’t how we expected from the glowing reviews. The house looks lovely and it is very spacious with a very lovely outdoor setting. Unfortunately when we pulled in the driveway the first sight that greeted us was an overflowing recycle bin. When we started settling in it all seemed nice at first but then we started noticing some less desirable things like crumbs on the kitchen chairs, lots of dead bugs in the windows ledges and corners of the bedrooms and bathrooms, toothpaste left in the sink. The tv in the living room didn’t have a functioning remote so we could turn it on (with a button on the tv) but nothing else, we couldn’t put it on a channel so literally could not watch anything but the main menu. The beds were extremely low and uncomfortable, but there are loads of extra blankets. Maeve was very upfront about rationing the heat so we knew we’d be needing to use the wood stoves but it was very chilly the night we stayed and the little bit of smoke that escapes irritated my asthma. All of these things individually don’t seem like a big deal, but when you add them up they made for a less than ideal stay. Maeve reached out early on by asking for my personal email and sent me some house info and asking that I confirm that I received the email both in text and on the Air B&B app (a little excessive) and then the day before our arrival texted me several times with local recommendations. The hard part about that is that we were on vacation and driving a lot so receiving so many texts was a bit much. I appreciated the communication but really everything could be left in a house manual. Maeve did call about an hour after we arrived and was very kind on the phone but at that point we hadn’t really had a chance to understand how the house was not meeting our expectations. We ended up not staying the 3 nights that we paid for, we left after the first night. It was our choice to move and we did not contact Maeve about leaving, we just did not want to deal with it on our last nights in Ireland.