Dog Friendly Apartments in Devon

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Melanie - Verified booking

  The location of the property in Lynton is excellent.

  We always had a parking spot in the shared car park despite there being around 10 other holiday apartments in the building. The kitchen was also very well equiped. The view out of the 2 front facing windows (one in the lounge, one in bedroom 1) were good but I would say because of the orientation of the windows in the rooms, you could only see the view if you were sat in the right place. The bedroom window was a small bay window side on to the sea view, and in the corner of a very large room. The rest of the windows in the property faced the back cliff/vegatation/back of other apartments in the buildling, so not much natural light coming in through them. Bedroom 1 could have done with a chest of drawers as we had to live out of suitcases all week. We had two quite significant issues with the property overall, which has impacted our holiday, which is a shame. Firstly, the downstairs room. It is described as 'quirky' in the listing but it is in fact somewhat of a cellar type room with an incredible damp and fusty smell, which we think it unsuitable for sleeping in or spending any time in at all. You enter the main building through a shared hallway through a (very) old door stepping on old gravestones as flagstones. The cellar/basement room is off this and has door leading to this area. This is just one of 6 doors in this basement room. One is a back door to the cliff area/back of house, one to the upstairs apartment, one to the bathroom, one is a locked large cupboard, and one is behind the wardrobe. There are 4 windows but all look out on to internal walls or outside walls. It's dark, claustrophic, smelly and the bedding felt damp. My daughter ended up sleeping on the floor in our room upstairs the whole week. The second issue was the bed and bedding in the upstairs room. I realise that comfort is subjective, but we found the bed to be vey uncomfortable, not helped by poor quality duvet and pillows. Synthetic and well past their plumpness, both of my pillows were completely flat. When we took the sheets off at the end of the week as we were leaving, the undersheet had stains, hairs and bits of dirt. It was just not up to the usual standard of Sykes cottages that we have come to appreciate. Such a shame as for the money paid we had high hopes. We'll be returning to Lynton but not Blue Bay.

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• Prema - Verified booking

  Great location, I didn't know anything about Lynton until I read about the scenic Glen Lyn Gorge in the weekly Waitrose newspaper.

  I was very impressed with Lynton, such a picturesque village, and the apartment is located within a few minutes walk from some lovely pub and restaurants. The apartment in itself is beautiful, very stylish, clean, with all the amenities (if you prefer to cook) and it is perfect for couples or families. There is a spectacular view of the sea from the lounge and 1st floor bedroom window! and it is such a treat to look at the sea first thing in the morning and late at night! We stayed with our baby and our dog, and everything was catered for! If you do have a dog, there are some lovely walks right outside the apartment (there is a poop bin outside the Town Hall, just a few mins walk away) and we were pleasantly surprised at how many shops, pub and restaurants welcomed dogs! The communication with the owner was great, he sent us an email with information about the local area, restaurants, etc, and even allowed us an earlier check in as there were no guests staying the night before. Checking-in and checking-out was very straight forward! I'd highly recommend taking either the funicular (for the beautiful views) or walking to Lynmouth harbour, which is very pretty, and really recommend the fish & chips at Lynmouth Harbour (instead of the one in Lynton). Other restaurants recommended by the owner that we loved were Vanilla Pod (Middle Eastern food), The Oak Room (Spanish food) and Nartnapa Thai Kitchen. A brilliant pub is the The Crown Pub! The staff at the pub and restaurants were so lovely! And Lynton is a great base to explore North Devon: driving along the coast to the beautiful village of Porlock or Woolacombe, one of North Devon's most beautiful beaches! I would definitely like to come back with my parents-in-law!

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• Bethany - Verified booking

  What a fantastic little cottage!

  We had a great week here. Jo and Zak are lovely, friendly hosts, very welcoming. Everything is provided that you can want for and cake on arrival was very thoughtful and unexpected, thank you. We went with our two dogs and it was perfect, they have a lovely private garden with the cottage and also use their garden with a large pond to walk around so was perfect for a quick morning walk. Sat on a lovely country road just outside the village so very peaceful and not too far to walk to the local pub which serves great food. The village I would say is quite central so can go off in different directions easily depending on what suits you to do, inland/coast activities. Plenty of info available so you can choose what to do. Maybe some new advertising pics and defo underselling. Felt like a bargain. Thanks so much for a great holiday

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• Sue - Verified booking

  This apartment is in a superb location and has amazing views.

  If it had been managed/maintained correctly it would be exceptional. I have already had extensive exchanges with the managing agent, Sandpiper, which is hoping to resolve the issues we encountered. These included: 1. Legal compliance issues. No gas safety certificate displayed (it does exist, they were able to supply it on request), divan bed bases without fire labels (probably because the bases appear to pre-date the introduction of the regulations in 1988!). 2. Several maintenance issues. Missing fridge shelf, broken clocks, insecure worktop in bathroom. 3. Lots of cleaning issues including stained carpets, dirty drawers, dirty window interiors. To their credit, as soon as we notified them Sandpiper offered to come out and attend to things, but as we had already cleaned ourselves we decided not to take them up on their offer.

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• Miss Pykes - Verified booking

  Our stay was great, with fantastic space for bringing your dog it was perfect! And lovely to feel at ease with not much furniture for them to mess up! The garden was a great side and a lovely warm hottub! The equipment in the kitchen was amazing great pans & crockery which was of good quality and a fab little welcome of milk eggs and bacon sausage to start off a breakfast! The furnishings were done to a high standard with an insane shower! We loved our stay it was a quiet relaxing getaway snuggled into the countryside with all amenities / pubs to eat 10 minutes away - My partner spoke with the hosts and found their recommendation a great help and we enjoyed a few lovely meals from the recommendations!

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