Whisk Away Cottage

The accommodation is gorgeously decorated with mostly a well equipped kitchen. The level of decor is a very high standard.

On leaving you have to clean everything up , clear bins out, strip all beds, and remove all towels all into bagging at the front door. A dishwasher is provided but no dishwasher tablets. There was no toaster. The cottage is like a show home and gorgeous but not practical. Sensors need to be removed for the lighting as it is awful at night ( who puts sensors in a bedroom?) No toaster provided for the kitchen. After having to srip all the beds, we then found that the beds had urine stains on the mattress protectors. The accommodation felt like nobody had been there for a while as it was crawling in spiders with webs in the kitchen from Cooker hood to worktop, and below the sttair handrails was the worst areas No windows would open as they were all locked with keys and no keys were left at or in the windows. Window cills covered in dead bugs and the outside veranders were not usable due to being dirty and covered in bird poo. Very expensive for 2 nights for the issues found. ( would be worth it with some improvements)

Beds were very comfortable and towels were soft Good shared pool, has a playstation room and a room with ping pong table (shared for all the cottages) 20-30mins away from places like Catbells, Aira force waterfall. 5 mins away from an alpaca sanctuary that has a nice farm shop if you like TVs, there is a TV in every room

The layout is not well thought through: the kitchen has a big island so you can barely walk around and has no table, you have to eat in a row like in a bar. No table in living room so could not play board games with the kids. Bath was very uncomfortable but looked pretty, no space in bathroom to put your things (very small shelf and round sink so very unpractical). The 3rd bedroom is hidden (like a hidden storage room upstairs, took us a while to find! Kids found it creepy and refused to use it) The light downstairs and in the bathrooms were sensors, so if you go to the toilets in the night all the lights come on! Cannot walk anywhere from the place, you need to take the car The outdoor pictures do not look like the reality, much smaller & older than expected, was disappointed when we arrived