St Martins Guest House - Rooms Only

Good location, clean rooms

Hot rooms at the top floor

It’s set up is great! Big kitchen, everything you could need and more ( including a gym).

Parking is tight

The shared self-catering facilities were excellent. The cleaner came in several times a day and the place was spotless in spite of the kitchen/diner being used mostly by working men. Never experienced automatic curtains opening and closing before! Supermarkets very nearby.

No actual garden, just small decking areas surrounded by high fences, and large paved parking area in the front.

The property was clean and nicely furbished with good facilities in the bedroom, slightly problematic in the kitchen (see below) but nevertheless largely very good. The owner was very kind and friendly and amazingly helpful and flexible for our bicycles. The location was close to where we needed to be for the next day. We could cook our own meal with supplies bought from a couple of larger supermarkets nearby.

Although I understood St Martin's to be rooms only and therefore security is important, it was complicated to access the property, needing to download a key App firstly for the first door once I had confirmed my email address and then needing to read the online manual for the code to the second door and for the code to the bedroom. It's ingenious but people planning to stay here should expect to be in contact with the property in advance to get the App link so you don't have to do this when you arrive as we did and to be prepared to use codes to get in and out. For us, we prefer a hotel experience and we stayed in nicer places which are hosted for the same or less cost in Dunbar, Berwick on Tweed, Newcastle etc and which frankly are nicer places to stay than Tranent. The first frying pan we used shed its Teflon coating all over our food so we had to change pans and buy replacement supplies. Having said that, the owner who we met is very nice and very helpful and he has made a big effort with the property. I just didn't think the experience reflected what we paid to stay for a night.