The scenery was stunning and the location is great. It's just a short five minute drive to Martinborough Village (you definitely need a car though). We took our two dogs with us and they loved running around the vinyard.
Lucie was a lovely, polite and welcoming host. If it had just been her and her partner staying in the joining house, our stay would've been much better!
The room itself is attached to the house and isn't very private. The door connecting to the house is unlocked - we reccomend this is locked for future guests to enhance the feeling of privacy. You can hear people in the room attached and with kids running around we were anxious they would just come in.
The studio is located at the front of the entryway which means people have to walk past your door and windows to get to the house at the back. This is fine as long as they are courteous, quiet and don't unnecessarily walk past (which wasn't our experience).
Unfortunately the owners of the vinyard decided to bring their family up for the long weekend. This seemed to be a surprise for our hosts and us! This was two adults and three kids. As soon as they arrived late at night (waking us up) our peaceful relaxing holiday was over.
They arrived with their children and dog and then the next night another family showed up with their children too! It felt like we were intruding on their holiday and all hopes of privacy were lost.
Children were playing and screaming while we were trying to nap, people were up late in the room attached to ours (which isnt sound proof), and people were constantly walking past our room which also annoyed one of our dogs and made her anxious.
One of our dogs is anxious and can become reactive with other dogs, especially if they aren't calm.
The owners of the vineyard brought their dog and unfortunately their dog was quite protective of the property so our dogs didn't get on which meant that off lead time was limited and our holiday was a lot more stressful. The place is dog friendly if its just your dogs there.
We reccomend that the owners do not surprise visit when the air bnb is booked. If they are going to be there, they must let the guests know in advance. We would have cancelled our trip had we known. Its also rude to bring over more guests, we felt uncomfotable and unable to make use of the facilities. The trip was exspensive for us so we were actually quite upset that it wasnt as private or relaxing as we had planned.
Other comments: The owners should invest definitely in a queen. The single beds a novelty at first felt like a 1950s set up for us as a couple after the second night.
The bathroom is great.
Cleaning products need to be suplied i.e spray and wipe for kitchenette and bathroom. Cloths to clean and more tea towels.
Vaccum cleaner would be handy to maintain the room druring longer stays.
Presentation of the room was really beautiful and you could tell a lot of effort had been put in to make the space welcoming.
Lastly we want to say thank you to Lucie who was an amazing host. We do reccomend this place the owners just need to be more aware that people are coming here to holiday and expect to feel welcomed and relaxed.