Currawong - Freycinet Holiday Houses

The house was lovely, great location, and the rooms were clean and well maintained. The bathroom was spectacular. Heating was good throughout, very comfortable stay.

My one big complaint was that there was no way to dry clothes! We came in winter, and had a couple of very rainy days. There is a washing machine, but no dryer, or even a drying rack to set up and hang clothes on. The clothes line was outside so no good to use when it was raining. I think they need to provide, if not a dryer, at least a clothes rack that we could have set up indoors to dry our clothing. As it was we ended up hanging stuff on the towel racks in the bathroom, and draped over furniture in the sitting room, which was very inconvenient.

Large and can sleep a few

Huge spiders inside on the bed and in bathroom when we entered

We had to wait for the key lock box code to be sent. We arrived a little earlier than anticipated (35 min) so messaged the property manager and got the code sent to use promptly but would have been nice to have prior to arriving on site so that additional communication wasn't needed. Facilities were exactly as expected and suited our group of 4 adults (1 couple and 2 singles) and the three bedrooms worked wonderfully for all with no additional charge to use the extra bedroom.

The TV antenna was broken. We were alerted to this prior to arrival by the property manager so we went in with full knowledge this was being fixed after our stay.

The location was great and the cottage was cute and quirky.

We were firstly disappointed at the lack of consideration when our mum/grandma became unexpectedly ill and could not travel. Rather than offer some flexibility and allow us to change our booking to a time we could all come we were referred to the cancelation policy and advised they would not help. I feel that this is pure greed on the part of the property owner and management. But fine because it was policy and its not their problem if our mum is very ill. The house is quirky and cute, gives European ski chalet vibes. But we found it was not well maintained. Clean on the surface but lots and lots of thick cobwebs. The polyester shower curtain was old and very moldy and stained and should have been replaced some time ago. The grounds and gardens also nice but in need of upkeep. The pavers / cobblestones surrounding the property need leveling and I feel they would be dangerous to either young children or people with any kind of mobility challenges. Overall this is another example, in our opinion, of an overpriced run down property on short term rental in Australia where the owners are raking in ridiculous amounts of income from tourists but not putting any of that money into the upkeep and cleaning. Disappointing for us. Others may be happy to settle for this.