School Holidays 2017 Cottages In Pitlochry

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Denise - Verified booking

  We (four adults) stayed here for four nights in early September during a period of remarkably warm weather.

  The house is spacious and comfortable, and the setting is quiet and secluded. The owners were very helpful with questions we had, e.g., about heating and hot water. The property is well maintained, appliances are new, and the kitchen is well equipped - even the knives were sharp! The house has a separate laundry room with a washer and drier which I think would be useful to mention more in the write up - it's really good to be able to close the door on all that. As we travelled from overseas, the need to bring oven mitts, buy toilet paper, etc. was not that convenient. I would rather pay a little more and have more supplies, like extra towels, provided but I understand that isn't for everyone. The one thing that I would have found helpful (and again this may be personal preference) would be manuals for some of the appliances, e.g., specifics on how to override the hot water setting on the wall unit. We worked out how to use the induction stove, but could not work out how to empty the condenser on the tumble drier (it was the last day so I didn't ask). I know we can all look things like that up online but on vacation I don't really want to look for the model number on the drier etc. These may all be obvious to the modern British family! But this did not mar our enjoyment of the property - it was top notch and I would stay there again.

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• Alison - Verified booking

  Such a lovely, welcoming house.

  Light and spacious, more than enough room for 9 of us. Incredibly well equipped kitchen - and having 2 dishwashers was a real bonus. Beds were really comfortable, the heating was very effective - we had good weather for late May/early June but it was still nippy in the early morning and evening - but not indoors! Plenty of seating outside for a snack or to enjoy the sunshine. Incredibly well situated - 2 minutes walk to a good sized supermarket and two minutes further to a wide selection of excellent coffee shops. We'd particularly recommend Cafe Calluna and Mac and Pinch. Had a fab takeaway from Chinese Village and a lovely meal out at the Moulin Inn. Lots to do in the area - we visited Blair Castle, had a super afternoon doing a forest trail on a Segway at Blair Castle Caravan Park and did the Hotbox Experience at Taymouth Marina, amongst other things. Would definitely recommend Roseburn and Pitlochry. Aly and Russell can be proud of the accommodation they offer.

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• Carole - Verified booking

  The property was perfect for our Wedding Party.

  It was clean, had comfortable beds and enough bathrooms, and the kitchen was very well stocked. Once we had a contact telephone number for the owner we found her to be very helpful and accommodating and answered all our texts and calls immediately. Sykes Cottages, however, were very slow to respond and were unable or reluctant to contact the owner in order to answer our queries. The standard response was that the relevant team were on the case and would reply to us once they had an answer from the owner. The respose from Sykes Cottages to us enquiring as to when we could expect a reply was very curt and actually quite rude. When we asked for a telephone number for Sykes Cottages we were relucantly given one that actually didn't work and we were directed back to text messaging. I found the whole interaction with Sykes Cottages very frustrating and ultimately stressful.

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• Kerry - Verified booking

  First of all I want to say that this property is in a fantastic location.

  We had a great time as a family and the owners were always on hand, especially when we got lost. The only issues were the internet, which went down quite a few times, the house was not particularly clean when we arrived, we had to go and buy cleaning products and do ourselves. Also, the listing never mentioned that, although Mullingar does not accept dogs, the cabin in the garden does, and whenever we left the doors open we had a dog which was staying in the cabin, come into our property, which is not great especially when there were people in our party who are allergic to dogs, and a child who is scared of them. There is no separation from the cabin in the garden which was a disappointment really as they should each have separate gardens or just be listed as 1 home.

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• Keith - Verified booking

  Lovely spacious cottage.

  This is a true 6 berth property with room to move around. Lovely location at the top of a very step access road. it is a 10/15min walk in to Pitlochry if you are fit for the hill. Only two minor comments would be that the living room could possible have some more furniture/seats. A wee bit mean with the toilet roll allocation, think we had 1 per bathroom but other than that I would highly recommend this cottage. Unrelated comment about Pitlochry - it must be one of the most expensive places to visit these days with a pub charging £14.95 for a club sandwich & £6.95 for a pint of Guinness Ouch-come on Pitlochry.

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