Beach Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Matthew - Verified booking

  His is the first time that I have been disappointed with a Sykes holiday cottage, and I have been using your company for many years.

  When we arrived on late on Saturday afternoon we noticed that both bathroom windows had been left open, the reason for this became perfectly clear the following morning as there was a vile smell that pervaded throughout the upstairs rooms, but was particularly unpleasant in the bathroom. So on the Sunday we bought some air freshener, but this only took the edge off it, although did prevent it spreading beyond the bathroom. On the Monday, I bought some drain cleaner/unblocker and poured it down the sink, this I left for 4 hours and then rinsed with hot water. Finally by around Thursday, the smell was all but gone. You have to understand that the smell was so awful it made me want to vomit. I have never known such a terrible pong, and i have worked in some pretty smelly places. So to the rest of the cottage, mostly it was alright, although we did think that the kitchen was a bit under supplied with cupboard space. The clock wasn't working, so we put a new battery in it, a light bulb went pop in the lounge so I had to change this too. The outside light didn't work, which didn't make for easy access in the dark due to all the steps. We used the washing machine mid week but then found that there was rather a limited number of pegs! The hot tub wasn't especially clean, with bits of the cover and flies floating in it whenever we used it. Certainly not upto our usual standard of holiday stays. Thankfully we enjoyed good weather when we were down for our fortnight, so we were able not to have to spend too long in the cottage. That said, we did like how the fence shielded you from the road noise. The walk to the cliff top was nice, and the views along the coast were spectacular at sunset. One of the positives of our stay were the guide books, as we like to do a fair number of walks, the local one through Tehidy was quite pleasant. It was nice to get the welcome hamper on arrival and to have milk in the fridge. I think my only other quibble was that it was very hard to get out onto the road as it is totally blind pulling out of the drive. If there was a mirror opposite it would make life far easier. Would I stay here again? Absolutely not. Especially for the money that we paid. I have stayed in far nicer holiday cottages in Devon and Cornwall and will not be returning to this one.

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• Confirmed Guest - Verified booking

  The house is truly gorgeous! Immaculately clean and very well equipped. Stylish and extremely comfortable. I simply didn’t want to leave… the view from the attic bedroom is fabulous and you can also see the river from the main bedroom. Everything is finished to a high spec and furnished practically. A very thoughtful welcome hamper with Cornish goodies and clear instructions about arrival etc. Logs supplied, so we had a couple of cosy nights with a roaring fire. I would return in a heartbeat! There is a parking place reserved in a car park about 10 minutes walk away (2 routes) all uphill and very steep, but it certainly upped our step count and heart rate! But that’s part of Fowey’s charm, steep hills, higgledy streets and great views. Independent shops and great eateries, friendly folk, river trips, Du Maurier, and the cute car ferry which looks exactly as it did 27 years ago! I would highly recommend making Place View your home for your hols.

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• Confirmed Guest - Verified booking

  The house is truly gorgeous! Immaculately clean and very well equipped. Stylish and extremely comfortable. I simply didn’t want to leave… the view from the attic bedroom is fabulous and you can also see the river from the main bedroom. Everything is finished to a high spec and furnished practically. A very thoughtful welcome hamper with Cornish goodies and clear instructions about arrival etc. Logs supplied, so we had a couple of cosy nights with a roaring fire. I would return in a heartbeat! There is a parking place reserved in a car park about 10 minutes walk away (2 routes) all uphill and very steep, but it certainly upped our step count and heart rate! But that’s part of Fowey’s charm, steep hills, higgledy streets and great views. Independent shops and great eateries, friendly folk, river trips, Du Maurier, and the cute car ferry which looks exactly as it did 27 years ago! I would highly recommend making Place View your home for your hols.

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• Sandra - Verified booking

  The cottage was clean and tidy but was surprised the kitchen was so small.

  I was disappointed with the welcome pack, obviously bought from some supplier to hospitality - little sealed packs of coffee, tea, milk and biscuits as found in hotel bedrooms. My usual experience is cottages is lovely baskets of wine, crisps biscuits etc - something that looks like a bit of thought has been put into it. The same with the box of cleaning products - I didn’t know it was possible to get such a tiny bottle of washing up liquid ( probably contained a tablespoon of liquid). When you pay a lot of money for a cottage it is nice to have some effort put into the nice little extras that are the norm in most cottages. No visitors book in the cottage, which is always useful for recommendations on where to eat etc. Alnmouth itself was lovely- beautiful beach and nice dog friendly local eatery’s. However I wouldn’t consider returning to this cottage as I felt it was overpriced for what was actually provided.

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• Jean - Verified booking

  We have had such a lovely time at the cottage it was so warm and welcoming the ...

  We have had such a lovely time at the cottage it was so warm and welcoming the little extra touches made all the difference thanks to the hosts for the flowers biscuits and bottle of prosecco, also it was lovely to get there and have tea coffee and milk there to have a brew after such a long journey , the hot tub was also amazing, Jack was lovely and gave us details of beaches to visit and told us we could use the lane at the back of the farm to walk to the cliffs which was lovely with the dogs, the garden was very secure which made us feel relaxed that we could let the dogs out and the extra treat of their own gelato ice cream from the farm shop was delicious I have already recommended it to my friends and family thanks for a great holiday

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