I stayed with my family at the cottage in December.
We were welcomed on arrival by our host, Joseph, who kindly showed us around and helped us with our luggage. On the plus side the cottage was clean and bright and would be lovely for a Summer stay as it has a very pretty garden, it is also peaceful and close to all transport links.
On the downside Joseph must get the heating sorted out before the winter and, although two different mechanics were called during our trip, the heating gave us a lot of problems as it was not working properly for the whole of our stay, before the engineers were called it was icy cold and after the final engineer had left it was stiflingly hot and there was no way of controlling the temperature since the thermostat had been disconnected. The cottage was also not double glazed and drafts of cold air came in through all the windows.
The cottage was listed with ALL amenities in good working order, unfortunately on arrival we were told by Joseph not to use the hand held shower in the bath, that the dishwasher door spring had gone and to be careful when opening it and we also discovered that the tumble dryer did not dry.
Although Joseph is a lovely host and was easy to communicate with it is not acceptable to list a property in full working order and then to tell guests on arrival that things are not working and especially not acceptable for the heating to be faulty in the middle of winter.