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April 2022
Our stay at Cliff Top Cottage was the worst I have ever had, and I stay at a lot of cottages as a professional UK landscape photographer.
The noise from building work taking place on the adjoining roof, above our bedrooms, and around our chimney throughout our stay (which is probably still ongoing) was horrendous, and the advertised Wifi has been offline for weeks, if not months, with the owner having no obvious inclination to repair it. Just blames TalkTalk and storms.
As somebody on a working holiday who returned to the property every day to work, and take a nap between sunrises and sunsets the property was totally unsuitable for our needs.
The inside of the cottage was just about passable (dated, not the cleanest, poor TV, crockery etc that looked like it had been purchased a piece at a time at a jumble sale, no draining board, and we all struggled to sleep in the beds even at night when it had gone quiet), as was the lane that leads to the cottages which was full of pot holes. We were just about able to slalom the car around them touching the hedges at times, but cars with lower ride heights are likely to struggle.
The patio and parking area next to the cottage was unusable during the day, thanks to the building work (falling slates etc).
The owner who was misleading and uncooperative from the off has refused to compensate us despite obvious failings, and the money we had to spend to get around them, and the booking agent just hid behind clauses in their small print. So obviously we are not going to be returning to this property or any of their others in the future.