Cosy Mews House, Heart of Mumbles gateway to Gower

Location

Spiral staircase bit of a challenge

NANothing I didn’t like

Nothing I didn’t like, though it is indeed cosy.

Location close to The Mumbles front and main cafes/restaurants and shops is excellent. A short walk downhill and longer along the front takes you to the pier, big wheel and lighthouse. There is also a reasonable pay & display carpark just around the corner - £25 for seven days. The apartment is clean, has a cooker, microwave, wide-screen TV and washing machine. The wardrobe is also big enough for a week's worth of clothes with decent hangers. There was coffee, washing up equipment and a toilet roll on arrival. Plenty of local coffee shops too and an M&S food hall within easy walking distance.

'Cosy' when the weather is colder, but in hot weather, small is probably more appropriate. In itself not a problem, but there is a notable absence of shelves. Downstairs on the comfortable sofa, the floor is the only surface within reach for cups or wine glasses. Upstairs, there is one bedside table, nothing else unless you count a window seat/box with a cushion cover. In the bathroom, similarly, more shelving or usable surfaces would have been good. The spiral staircase is also fairly tight and requires care, not helped by the handrail touching the wall in two places so having to shift your grip. There is a rechargeable vacuum on the wall that doesn't work so cleaning is via broom, dustpan and brush. There is a larger vacuum cleaner in the bottom of the wardrobe but we had no energy to get it out - and certainly not to get it downstairs. The emailed instructions were quite daunting in their detail, confirming the 'parking space' was so complicated to access it wasn't worth the risk. The street parking, similarly, is at a premium and in high season I'd have thought virtually impossible to find a space without driving around the tortuous one-way system.

Self catering, good location.

It's dated. The outside was not good.