This little cottage was fun. There are walking/biking trails mere minutes and a gas station that sells alcohol (craft beer) very close as well. The road to the Blue Ridge drive is like 2 miles way, giving you easy access to a lot of amazing outdoors stuff right outside of Asheville including Mount Mitchel (see a sunset at the summit!).
Asheville itself is about a 15 minute drive to get downtown.
All in all I found this to be a very solid location. The hot tub is nice after a long day hiking. The french press is nice in the morning.
The neighbors parking area is right outside the cottage's bedroom window. Their house is on the other side of a fence. The first day I saw and heard more of them than I'd like, in that way I wouldn't call the cottage a serene/quiet getaway, but for the rest of the trip we didn't see them and it was fine.