Ropery Cottage - Cyanacottages

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Shelves in the showers for toiletries

It was fabulous, beautifully presented and the views over Whitby from all 3 windows in the lounge were spectacular. Also Ali at Cyanacottages was wonderful. So helpful.

Nothing.

The cottage was spacious, comfortable and well maintained

There was nothing we would want improved

It was quiet and the living accommodation was spacious. The views were great.

We booked a 3 bedroom place for price quoted. On listing names of 4 people staying were told we would have to pay extra. 2 of us decided to stay elsewhere as was cheaper than paying the extra fee to stay with us. As there were now 2 of us we were told we could only use 1 bedroom with 1 en-suite. My husband & I are bad sleepers - we have separate bedrooms at home and specifically booked a place with enough rooms to accommodate this. It may have been ok if we'd been given the choice of the twin room but we were allocated a double. The twin room had a "No entry" sign on its door & the other room was locked. I slept on the sofa each night - the French doors leading to the Juliet balcony had no curtains/blind so my sleep was disturbed by light from outside. The lack of curtains/blinds also caused an issue when watching TV 1 afternoon - light reflecting on the screen, made it difficult to see. Our en-suite was ok. Shower was excellent. No storage. Traipsing backwards & forwards to fetch 1 cosmetic, cream, etc, at a time was annoying. Not a major issue but, for premium price & description/reviews from others, I was surprised storage was overlooked. There weren't enough clothes hangers in wardrobe, even when I fetched more from another bedroom wardrobe & used the hangers I had brought with me. Wardrobe itself was small &, as it was used for storage (by the cleaner?), was only a tiny amount of long hanging space. A small issue but, again, for premium price & the description, surprising. Kitchen cutlery drainer was dirty. Some paintwork needs re-doing. I don't remember being advised of amount of steep steps going to/from town/house on the booking website but may have missed this. All in all quite a good place but not nearly as good as were led to believe/expected, especially given the premium price.