Dog Friendly Bed And Breakfasts In Newport

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Sam - Verified booking

  This cottage is in two halves.

  The newer extension is lovely, large living room, comfortable bedroom, functional shower room. BUT the rest of the cottage is substandard for the money we were charged. The dated kitchen has a dirty, broken sink, the cooker is missing hob dial markings, the window sill grouting is grubby and there is no washing machine. Despite the owner saying there is no space to install one, there are plenty of empty cupboards where one could go. We had to drive to Newport and pay £20 for a laundrette service wash, then go back to collect. In 15 years of booking holiday rental cottages, we have never had one without a washing machine. The rest of the cottage smelt so strongly of damp and mildew my daughter and I got sore throats from it. She had to sleep in the twin room, but none of us could have slept in the older double room. The mould smell was so strong. The older style living room was dimly lit, too dark to sit in at night, smelt of damp and had huge dirty cobwebs all over the place. The stone fireplace was covered in thick cobwebs and home to spiders. It just didn't feel comfortable to spend any time in the room, so we didn't. The main bathroom had a broken skirting board hanging off the wall behind the toilet and cobwebs behind it. There was presumably an oil fired boiler in the locked cupboard in the bathroom as the whole room stank of fuel or oil. I had hoped to have a relaxing bath on holiday, but honestly couldn't have spent more than a few minutes in the room. We kept this door shut too. So for nearly £2,000 my family spent the week in three rooms which I don't feel is good value. The location was lovely and we enjoyed the river bank setting. The facilities offered for outside were on par with what we paid for, but sadly the inside was a real let down and disappointment. The house just isn't clean enough in places and the evident damp problem could be a health hazard for someone with asthma.

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• Jill - Verified booking

  Awen Ingli is a lovely home, with an emphasis on the last word!

  The lovely pieces of art, sturdy and pretty plates, cups and bowls, the gorgeous blankets in the living room and scatter cushions, as well as the comfy beds and toasty heating all greatly enhanced our comfort and elevated this lovely property beyond your usual holiday-home feel. There are too many thoughtful touches to list, but we appreciated them all, thank you. My top amenity was the eight-hob gas oven and two-over + grill. I'm an enthusiastic cook and baker and this was a fantastic support to my efforts :) Any improvements I have to suggest are in this area - I would suggest the addition of one very large saucepan, and perhaps a mid-size one slightly larger than those already there. These would be very handy for batch / entertaining cooking, but won't always be needed day-to-day and could perhaps be stored in the window corner of the living room as I appreciate space is tight in the kitchen. Also a couple of spatulas would be handy. However, we worked the galley kitchen pretty hard, and it was well up to the job. We loved Awen Ingli's location more or less right in the village and within a few mins of the estuary walk, which we did I think every day with our delighted cocker spaniel. The village crafts shops are lovely for browsing and the butchers TG Davies is fantastic with all manner of prepared meat pastries, butcher's-own sausages, Welsh thick bacon and plenty besides, as well as veg. The village Spar was open right through Christmas and the Wholefood Store has fantastic breads. The village antique shop adds another element - my collector son was delighted with a couple of purchases there and the owner was so friendly. The Castle Inn staff and drinks selection were top notch. All in all, we'd consider it a bit of a risk to book any other village if doing an extended family Christmas away again!

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• Jennifer - Verified booking

  A couple of comments about House-keeping.

  The cardboard and recycling bag in the kitchen was half full of previous visitors papers. Empty wine bottles in the orange bin provided in cupboard (I did move them into the bin outside with the green lid). Lots of hair and fluff between cushions on both sofas which we put in the Ash Bucket by the fire. That bucket hadn't been emptied and was about 1/4 full. The Meat tins and baking trays in the oven were in a disgusting state (I have taken photos) When i turned the oven on to cook a pizza on opening the door after waiting to get warm a huge cloud of smoke and fumes greeted me and it actually stung my eyes and was very irritating. I feel the oven needs a deep clean and the baking trays need replacing. The day before departure I went to the bin with the green lid to put our black rubbish bag and empty blue recycling bag. Not easy access to open the doors on this bunker style bin (I'm not very tall so could not reach inside very easily) The bunker was quite full of black bags and when I tried to move one it started to tear and banana skins almost came out. The main recycling bag at the very bottom was virtually empty apart from a cardboard toilet roll which appeared to have been nibbled by something. With the amount of rubbish still in the bunker I feel it could encourage little unwelcome visitors. We hadn't got much rubbish at all, only half a black bag and I disposed of it in the bin on the caravan park, although I am aware you're not supposed to. Apart from the above, we had a wonderful time and Little Barn is a perfect location for visiting relatives and lots of places to visit and would return in the future.

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• Anne - Verified booking

  The property is pretty and in a nice location.

  Unfortunately when we arrived it had not been cleaned and we were met with dirty bed linen and towels. After a nine hour car journey this was so disappointing as we just wanted to relax. After reporting this the cleaners came and did a quick whizz round offering to leave the hoovering and dusting which i declined and asked them to do it. Later we noticed that there were old dirty marks on the single bed sheet and bleach marks on the towel. No mopping took place on hard floors either. The cottage suffers from damp which is evident in places and the bed quilt felt damp even though the heating is good. Lack of attention to little things such as the two tin openers did not work and a knife had no point to it. The muck heap opposite the front door didn't bother us much at this time of year until the farmer came to move a couple of loads of it which left mud/muck outside and i noticed he broke up some of the concrete with his tractor. Had to move our car and go out for fear of being blocked in while he did this. When the lack of cleanliness was reported, the caretaker offered us 50.00 for 3 of us to go for dinner but we were too tired to go out after our journey unfortunately so couldn't take it up. The welcome pack was nice and appreciated. There were no logs but caught the cleaners as they left and asked them for some. They left some but we couldnt light the log burner and there were no instructions anywhere as we are not used to log burners.

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• Allan - Verified booking

  The barn was very clean and in a very quiet location within walking distance to a couple of nice beaches.

  My kids loved the gas fire and the smart TV with access to Netflix. I booked the break as a last minute getaway the night before we were due to arrive and paid £877 for three nights. On arrival at around 3:30pm we found that the property had no power (electricity completely off) I phoned the management company who got an electrician out pretty quickly to be fair however he couldn’t resolve the issue as it was a DNO fault and didn’t know when power would be reinstated (nobody’s fault really but meant we didn’t have power for the majority of our first day) not sure if others were advised about sn apparent power cut but nobody let us know when booking. There was also an intermittent issue with the water at the property so that when you opened a tap on some occasions no water at all would run not sure if it was an air lock in the system or something but it was annoying sometimes waiting a few minutes before running any water. A few comments I read beforehand were mostly about stripping bedding and separating towels atc which if I’m honest wasn’t too much trouble but at almost £900 for 3 nights stay I feel that this should be included really. So in conclusion it wasn’t a bad trip by any means I just didn’t feel like I had good value for my money. All the best

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