Dartmouth Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Christine - Verified booking

  Loved this place.

  Lovely cottage with everything you could need. The upper patio is just brilliant for the views. We could sit there all day no watch the boats go by. Yes it’s on a hill and yes it’s tough to climb back up but we knew this and we managed. If you want a view then is the compromise! We managed to just park as near as we could, unload then we moved the car to the car park and we only used it one day - and dont forget the pass covers a lot of the car parks around the area so you don’t need to pay for more parking. We never had a fire but there were bags of logs outside the front door that you could buy if you wanted one. We were so very lucky with the weather for April- blue skies and sunshine every day - but chilly on a night so we just put the heating on. Very snug. As this house has two bathrooms it was very handy for us both to have showers at the same time.. plenty of throws, blankets and even hot water bottles for the cold nights. Lovely picture window in the lounge to look out at Kingswear and the river and out to sea. Take the road to the right out of the property and walk down to warfleet creek and then have coffee at Dartmouth Castle and do a circular walk through Little Dartmouth, walk down to Sugary cove and then back across Jawbone Hill for a spectacular walk. The only thing I didn’t like was having to ring Sykes to get the key code for the box at Coast and Country for the keys as we would be arriving after the office closed and having to hang on for about 45 mins. Why can’t we just be given the number for the office in Dartmouth instead - Sykes have to ring them so why can’t the customer.

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• Karen - Verified booking

  The property is lovely in a very elevated spot, with incredible views.

  Meaning lots of height therefore lots of steps. This was ok for us but our older dog struggled with the uncarpeted stairs to the living area from the front door. It is fairly central, vertically and not too far away from areas to walk with the dogs, you can go further up onto Dyers Hill or down to Victoria park. The outside area is nice but no real place for dogs to do their business, as it’s all decked. There are plants but they are on a slant, we had to let them out of the front door to find a bit of greenery. The property does have everything you could need and we were very comfortable. I don’t think I fully appreciated how hard it would be to cope with the constant steps/up. A walk up from town, then a walk up to the property and when there another walk up to the living area and then to get the very best views, and they are spectacular, another 3 sets of steps to the top deck. The views are amazing, just be prepared for the exercise. We did have a shock one evening when we were going to bed, it had rained heavily, we discovered two huge snails on the wall by the front door. We couldn’t see at first how they had got in but we realised there is quite a big gap by the front door skirting and they must have got in there, perhaps that could be looked at. All in all a lovely stay, but with our dogs and us getting older we wouldn’t stay that high up again. We love Dartmouth so have already booked for next year, this time back on the level. Thank you to Karen and Ross for all the little touches in Dart Views.

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• Kris - Verified booking

  The property was OK, but with a departure time of 10.

  00am (Assuming there was somebody in the property before us) and a collection of keys at 5.00pm, one would have thought 7 hours was enough time to clean the place properly. There was dust and cobwebs everywhere. The dishwasher had broken glass in the bottom. The mugs were dirty in the cupboard. There were hairs on the chair bases...blonde one's and we're not blonde or had a dog with us. Stains on the bed headboard. It put a "stain" on the weekend right from the word go. The Wifi didn't work, so if you're going to offer Prime, Apple, Netflix etc, make sure the wifi works so you can use these facilities otherwise don't profess to offer them and don't hide behind the Wifi not being guaranteed. You either offer it or you don't. Good job i had 4G, otherwise I wouldn't have received your irritating text message reminding us of what we had to do on departure - Strip the bedding down etc, etc. What 7 hours isn't enough for the cleaners to do it and don't hide behind Covid because there are plenty of other touch points that C&C haven't covered off, such as the scrappy chairs and sofa's that could have been presented better. At the end of the day it wasn't value for money.

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• Julian - Verified booking

  We have an issue with Coast and Country properties who we believe manage the property.

  When we arrived at the office they threw the envelope at us with the key in, when I asked for the postcode so we could find the house she rolled her eyes, went to a computer then scribbled it down on the envelope and threw it at us again. Not an utter of how to find it or enjoy your stay. When we did find the property we initially impressed. None of our issues are because of the owner they have been incredibly thoughtful with what they leave for guests. But the place was dirty. My kids love chocolate but refused to eat the biscuits left for us as they said they don’t trust them because of the dirt. We found stained bed linen, saucepans which had food in them, dishwasher with pots in, cms of dust and mould in the rooms (I have some photos and would be happy to supply). The place was so damp that getting into bed the sheets felt wet. The double bed has a massive dip in it to the point my husband couldn’t put his socks on on the last morning due to his back. On the whole the owner has been severely let down by agents. We won’t return. We thought we’d booked via Sykes but clearly we had gone through to Coast and Country who were appalling so we won’t you again.

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• Georgia - Verified booking

  Stayed here for a lovely get away with my teenage son and dog!

  Beautiful location! Stones throw away from the local very friendly pub! And a short walk to a beautiful beach- that we couldn’t access due to having our dog and was during the peak time of no dogs allowed which was unfortunate. Leads to a Costal path is on the front door step! Only downside was one day the master bedroom became ultra infested with flying ants!! Think this could of been an issue before as found a lot of fly and ant spray in the cupboards- maybe this needs to be looked into for future bookers! Another minor downside was there was no cupboard space for storing food, there is a huge selection of plates and glasses- maybe way too much? Having to store our food heaped onto the kitchen sides made it feel incredibly cluttered which was a shame, maybe a cupboard or 2 being empty would of been nice just to have things put away. But these to me were minor- I would stay again as the property was just wonderful overall.

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