School Holidays 2017 Cottages In Abersoch

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Benjamin - Verified booking

  I booked two houses on the same street for a friendly reunion with old school friends who now live all over the world.

  Upon entering the property I was impressed with its décor and cleanliness. Although I wasn’t staying in the house myself, my friends did and by virtue of this, did spend lots of time within the property. And for the first two days, I did wonder why the property had such poor ratings in comparison to the other house we booked on the same street. I personally don’t have much to comment on in regards of the stay, however I was extremely upset to wake up to a workman parked outside of the property on the Monday morning. I approached the man as he was starting to paint the house with wet, white paint, clearly not appropriate when children were playing. I asked him why he was there doing such a job, and he replied that the owners had told him the house was empty. He said the owners have told him to come here in the past and the house has been occupied, however, holiday tenants had let him continue to paint. I expressed that I was not going to be one of those people and I though it was incredibly disrespectful to action maintenance works on a property that was being occupied. I manage property myself, and these works should be done in winter or when the house is empty. If the works need to be carried out in the summer months, then the owners should book a week from the website to do this work and should absolutely not be done when the property has been paid for. It’s incredibly rude, self-serving, selfish and unprofessional. I was not going to ask my friends children to stop playing and to avoid the wet walls of a house when they have paid a lot of money for the use of this house for a holiday stay, it’s a completely ridiculous expectation, I was absolutely shocked. The gentleman thanked me for the conversation, shook my hand and left. Just over an hour later, after getting out of the shower, I noticed yet another van parked outside the house, with the boot open and two men walking towards the house with window cleaning equipment. My two friends were in the garden in bikinis with their naked infant children playing in the garden. Now, this was not only personally very triggering for me, but was an absolutely inappropriate situation to find us in. I was not informed about these men coming, I don’t know if they’ve been DBS checked, I have no idea who these men are. Now, after rushing across the road post shower to have yet another confrontation. I found myself half naked, talking to two much older men, one of which was very old, the other, quite aggressive in his facial expression and stance. I expressed to these men that we were paying customers in the house and we don’t want any non-priority maintenance work happening on the house whilst we stay there. To which I was met with distain and a lack of understanding. The younger man made it very clear he was going to continue with the cleaning of the windows and I left. I had to watch my friends and their children enter the house on a sunny day and draw the blinds whilst these men cleaned the windows. I felt completely disrespected, unheard and invalidated for asking these men to leave. Completely inappropriate and unprofessional. We shouldn’t have to censor what we do around complete strangers whilst staying in a rented holiday home. I was absolutely disgusted that not only these works had been booked in on a week that it was occupied but that were not warned these works were going ahead. Also, when trying to stop the works from continuing, I was met with quite frankly, an aggressive reaction from one of the men (the older man was actually very sweet and didn’t say anything.) These works should not only be happening, and most importantly, I should not have had to have these confrontational conversations when I’m on holiday. I was supposed to be relaxing with my friends and quite frankly, I did not enjoy my remaining days of my holiday last week, it put me in quite a sad and deflated state of mind. I had to spend the whole of Monday on my won, away from my friends managing my own emotions surrounding the feelings that were evoked from these circumstances and interactions. I expect either a full or partial refund for this stay and a personal apology via email from the owners of this property. I will not be booking this house again.

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• Sonya - Verified booking

  We have just returned from a week in Abersoch at this most beautiful property.

  It is a big house which is immaculately clean and all of the bedding and facilities are of a very high standard. Its about a ten minute walk into Abersoch down hill so a bit more fun coming home uphill but its so worth it. We ate at Fresh and the food was amazing and very very dog friendly (a plate of chicken just for your dog!) , we also ate at the potting lobster which again was dog friendly but no chicken for the dog and an expensive price tag though it is worth it for a treat the food was amazing just a bit pricey. We enjoyed walking down the beach to the sand bar and sitting outside having a bacon bun and a coffee on a morning. The house is everything you could ask for absolutely beautiful and lots of parking for 3 cars, we will definitely go back Im sure. Luckily I spotted that no towels were provided before we set off which tbh was a bit of a shock but I guess I can understand why , just might be better if that is highlighted more so guests realise. My only small criticism would be it has totally top notch kettles, beds, showers, coffee makers, cookers etc then the hoover is like an old brick ? We like to keep the places we stay in clean and tidy and found it to be very heavy and not much use ? Bit surprising if you want guests to keep things clean? Other than that it was perfect we loved it .....

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• Mr McHardy - Verified booking

  This was a very comfortable property. There was lots of space to spread out and the beds were very comfortable. The kitchen was extremely well equipped with everything from a fruit bowl to kitchen scales and lots of crockery. It was provided with dishwasher tabs, cleaning equipment , bin bags, foil etc. Clear instructions were left about sorting the rubbish for recycling ( there was a compartmentalised bin in the kitchen) There was also the laundry room with a washing machine and tumble drier and an outside rotary clothes line with pegs. The ensuite bathroom was huge with a big bath and "rainfall" type walk in shower. Guests in the upstairs rooms had their own WC and sink but needed to use the downstairs family bathroom for showers. Please note the TV is a Smart one so we could watch Amazon Prime etc. The property was sparkling clean. As the weather was lovely we were able to use the garden furniture outside. There were lots of thoughtful touches, hooks for dressing gowns for example and lots of storage space. Overall very pleased with Dolphin Bach. Had a very special stay.

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• Simon - Verified booking

  We have just returned home after a lovely weeks stay at Madoc View.

  I would highly recommend this accommodation. Although a bit tired in places, Madoc View was clean and tidy and was possible the best stocked holiday rent I have had the pleasure to stay in. It had everything we needed for our weeks stay. The beds were comfortable and I liked the fact that bedding/towels were provided. There was also plenty of room both inside and outside for the 6 of us and our dogs. The location of the property was also excellent. We have stayed on that side of Abersoch for many years and the property's closeness to the beach, numerous walks and its accessibility to Abersoch village made it a big plus for us. However the best thing about the property, that goes without saying, is the view, which was just amazing - especially from the master bedroom and outside patio area. The weather was also very kind to us which made our stay just perfect. We will hopefully return.

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• Mary - Verified booking

  Basic items were missing - bath mats, oven gloves (surely these 2 items are basic health and safety), tea towel, bottle opener, hand soap (not ideal in covid times).

  There was no where to wash/wipe sandy feet as entering the house (I notice other houses has an outside tap at the front). No recycling bins - again other houses had these.... All doors are stiff and only lock with force. Main bedroom on floor 1 has thin white curtains which do not block the light from the street light directly outside the window and of course the natural day light at 5am. Very little sleep was had - not what I want on a holiday. The cot ordered was not left as agreed - I had to drive to pick one up from the local office and was rudely asked to bring it back without a thought for the inconvenience this caused me. All these things added up to a most un-enjoyable stay and we will NOT be booking again. Abersoch itself is lovely but this house has truly let you down.

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