alison_ellam
August 2020
On arrival to Ivy Cottage we could hardly see the sign, very poorly sign posted. A beautiful looking cottage, and pictures had been done very well on the advert as we were surprised to see 2 other dwellings very close to the cottage, so not as private as we'd of liked. Once in the cottage, the first thing that hit us was the smell, it was damp and quite dirty in places, the bedroom had lots of cobwebs and a few spiders,the kitchen cupboard were dirty. It's a very cold living room especially with the tiled flooring, we put the log fire on which looked lovely I must say however after 20 minutes, smoke filled the room, we tried everything we could do get the smoke away.
The patio doors were stuck, just could not open them easily, I feel that was a safety hazard and should be dealt with urgently as only 1 door worked ok. All in all Grewelthorpe is a stunning village with a lovely pub around the corner and the home made meals were tasty. Unfortunately we wouldn't visit Ivy Cottage again, as it was quite cold and the smell was unpleasant, I would of thought as we were the first people in after lock down the cottage would of had a major clean, unfortunately I feel that didn't happen. We didn't stay the whole week as planned we did leave early, I hope with this truthful feedback, things change for the better.