Something must have gone wrong between the visits of the writers of the previous glowing reviews and our visit. We were met by a wheelie bin next to the front door which obviously hadn’t been emptied for a few weeks and which had shed odds and ends over the front lawn. The front door lock was old and unwilling to cooperate with the user; by the time we left we had just about mastered it. The bathroom door had one working hinge and had to be lifted into place to shut. I fixed this myself, and to be fair to them, the owner paid me for my trouble. The bathroom mirror rested on top of the toilet cistern so you would have to bend over the bowl to catch a glimpse of yourself. There were no notes or information (such as when to put the bins out for example). The “all you need to get started” coffee, oil, salt, pepper, barbecue and barbecue utensils and fuel promised in the listing were not there. There’s no dishwasher and a washing-up bowl and tea towels were not provided. The garden was a weedy wasteland complete with blown-down fence panel. Not nice and you wouldn’t want young children out there unsupervised. The TV didn’t work, the wifi was slow. The house is not particularly handy for shops or pubs, you really need to get in the car. We’ve stayed at quite a few airbnb properties and there are usually one or two things you think you would do differently if it was your place but this place definitely had the longest list. Most disappointing.
We requested a partial refund from the owner but they refused, saying “The price per night depends on the demand….we had two other people messaging us for enquiries for that weekend.”