The Gables is a lovely, very comfortable place to stay. It’s incredibly close to everything you’d want to see, the fire is brilliant, and what could be better than sitting at your own dining table, looking straight down on water! Kelly gives fair warning about noise from the restaurant below (which shuts early, at least in spring) but it was a bit of a surprise to find the restaurant had outdoors speakers right below our balcony which broadcast music from lunchtime onwards. Once we adjusted it was ok, and the people running the restaurant were really lovely - maybe we should have made music requests! Despite initially not liking the music, we’d come back, at least in the quieter months.