Conlyn house

Lovely modernised rooms, good shower, comfortable bed, sea view. Lovely warm welcome from Maria, owner. Very close to restaurants, pubs and shops

Location to everything was perfect 👌 Owner was very helpful with anything 🙂 Breakfast was fantastic 😋

Everything was perfect, from checkin to checkout. Owner was amazing, very friendly. Room was awesome with sea views was really comfy bed. Room was awesome. Breakfast was AMAZING, best ever. Will sure be back. Excellent location

Nothing to dislike as all was perfect

Location was excellent. Breakfast was good - except the coffee! The owner Marie was friendly and obliging. My room had a nice view of the Mournes & some sea.

There is specific UK government guidance for sleeping accommodation here (and all other types of premises here). There is nothing in this guidance that states that bedroom doors need emergency lighting inside the room. But even in this detailed guidance the definitions are ambiguous: escape route means from any point in a building to a final exit, which would include from inside bedrooms. But more clearly, for small rooms, emergency lighting is only indicated where they are windowless and larger than 8m2. Is this really a problem? Isn’t doing more than guidance requires a good thing? It could be, but not if it compromises an equally important requirement: in this case the wellbeing benefits that come from good quality sleep. Sleep deprivation impairs what you intend to do whether work or pleasure, and can be downright dangerous for activities like driving. For me this fails the reasonably practicable test. This must always start with following relevant good practice (RGP) for a given hazard, activity and risk, like government fire safety guidance. We then need to ask what else could be done, and you can always do more. If the cost of the next measure you are considering is grossly disproportionate to the benefit, you can reasonably argue that this next step is not justified. Taking into account the full picture for fire safety risk in small hotels, emergency lighting for bedroom doors is a step beyond RGP and the additional risk reduction benefit is trivial. The total cost of providing this measure is not trivial: installation, operation and maintenance costs; damaging sleep impacts on at least some guests; opportunity costs from loss of return business (on the assumption that I’m not the only person that finds this a problem). And as noted above, the fact that large reputable hotel chains do not do this suggests that their fire safety advisors agree. One last observation. This kind of legislation checking is more straightforward with a comprehensive