Love this place and location. We have stayed in Ariel’s sister cottage twice before and unfortunately found it to be a little bit cleaner and better managed. Sadly our experience was not one of an ‘enhanced cleaning protocol ‘ . It was clean, but it could have been better. Inside kitchen drawers were grimey and with food crumbs. One set of single bed sheets had hardened paint splashes on top and bottom sheet. Fortunately, we had an unoccupied bed we could swap sheets with so as not to endure hard scratchy sections . Our top double sheet frankly looked like it had bird poo on it, perhaps from being dried on the line outside somewhere? The wall to the left of the sink had a lot of brown splashes on it, like tea stains. The sitting room sofas and some of the carpets still had a lot of dog hairs on from a previous visitor. The rusting main bedroom radiator really needs repainting. These places are not cheap and at nearly £200 per night we felt for the first time this wasn’t quite up to the mark unfortunately, especially with current cleaning expectations. Still, there was no way we were not going to make the most of our much awaited break, got out and about every day, got on with it, didn’t waste a minute and had a wonderful time. It was our decision not to contact the housekeeper to rectify these points as we didn’t want to loose any of our precious holiday time getting these things sorted. All my dealings with Rural Retreats have been faultless, very straightforward and exactly as you would hope them to be.

The cottage was great (as are all of the Rural Retreat cottages we have stayed in) - very well equipped, warm and cozy. A real home from home. The location wasn't quite as private as other lighthouse cottages we have stayed in in other locations (such as Devon and Cornwall) - as there are lots of members of the public walking right past the windows during the day. At night is was extremely quiet and peaceful. There was no advice at all about where recycling can be taken locally - and we would have been very grateful to know that.

The cottages are very focussed on wedding parties and we arrived just after one had left and the cottage looked like it had been cleaned very quickly and the smell of air freshener was rather overwhelming and very few of the windows opened to let in fresh air. Generally very high quality to interior and fittings etc and very comfortable. Fab location. Great place if you are thinking of getting married!