Great location, very pretty house. The overall experience was good but there were some things that did not help make our experience as good as it could have been:
- all the closets in the bedrooms were locked and inaccessible, except for one closet in one bedroom. This closet contained items of someone else's clothing. With a large family staying for nearly 2 weeks this was a problem, and we resorted to hanging our clothes on door handles.
- lighting was bad, especially on the stairs and in the bedrooms. To be able read at night we resorted to buying our own higher-voltage light bulbs.
- not all the house was accessible as three of the rooms were locked, whereas the notice on Airbnb said the whole house at our disposal.
- when we arrived the fridge wasn't working properly and was very smelly. On one of the fridge shelves there was a thermometer that measured 10 degrees. We notified the owner who replied that none of the previous guests had complained, and that the fridge had only a slight problem in that it didn't go below 5 degrees. He then said that we could use the other fridge for meat etc. We pointed out that we had medicine with us that needed to be kept at a maximum temperature of 4 degrees, that the other fridge was actually a bottle cooler, and that apart from the medicine problem, we couldn't manage 2 weeks of feeding 8 people with just a bottle cooler for perishable food. The following morning the owner's wife came round to look at the malfunctioning fridge and said her husband would contact us. That he did, and on day 3 of our stay the owner bought a new fridge which luckily worked.
- the owner appeared unannouced while we were sleeping, ostensibly to check on the new fridge. This felt weird.
- the lining of the curtains in some rooms was falling to bits. Not a problem but not particularly pleasant.