Eyam Cottage - Darwin Lake Holiday Village

We stayed here last year for the 1 st time ever .It has all the basic self catering needs you need , beautifully designed and set out . Beautiful location

Lack of cooking equipment - no large frying pans , no decent cooking spatula or tongues - we cooked all week to save money but found it a little challenging . No tvs in the bedrooms . Option of a hot tub at pet friendly cottages would be nice .

Absolutely beautiful location. Lovely downstairs. Nice to get some little toiletries and a welcome pack of tea, coffee, sugar and biscuits.

The en-suite bathroom needs a bit more of a clean around the skirting board and in the shower tray.

The property was mired in spacious than it looks in the photos! Modern open plan living.

From half way up the stairs the whole of the upstairs of the house creaks very loudly. You literally can’t move in bed without the floors creaking - I wanted to leave after the first night it was so bad. The first night we managed to fill a bath (full) with hot water the second night we didn’t even get half a bath full. Electric wall heaters worked intermittently - it was a cold weekend the upstairs of the property was really cold. Bedroom curtains need replacing with either a blackout blind or curtains. Current curtains don’t work at all for blocking out day light. PAT testing in washing machine expired over a year ago. On the day of departure the cleaners tried to get in the property at 9.37am luckily we had the door locked.

The location is fabulous. The downstairs living/kitchen/dining area was comfortable

We arrived at 4pm on Saturday, clearly a changeover day. Reception was closed, no notice on the door about how to check in. Phone reception is poor and it took me a while to locate a signal. Phoned the number on their website and spoke to a man who clearly wasn't interested. He said reception waa shut on a Saturday and I should have been sent a key card. He kept repeating that, even though I clearly hadn't received it. Turns out he meant the key code for the box by the front door. His attitude waa awful. We had no hot water out of any of the taps. The shower tray in the ensuite is beastly. The mattresses are like sleeping on rocks. We did speak to a lovely lady at reception on Sunday morning. To be fair to her, she offered to go in and have a look at our issues. We were heading out to a wedding so we declined, and we were leaving the next day anyway. She said the stains in the shower tray could be glue. Even if it is glue, it needs sorting as it looks like green muck.