I was absolutely astonished at how tired and down at heel the cottage is, we arrived after a long journey to find the decor old, tatty and out dated, the bathroom was barely functional and the furniture and furnishings dirty and thread bare, we could have dealt with that but when we went into the kitchen we were horrified and disgusted, every surface was sticky with old grease and had a smelly of rancid meat fat, we opened the oven to find old fat congealed in the door seal and on the surfaces, when we put the oven on the smell was gut wrenching, the heat melted the grease and it dropped from the roof on to the shelves below!
With kitchen was very poorly equipped, there was a huge amount of coffee cups and saucers but the cooking equipment was old sticky and completely unusable! We tried to put it all through the dishwasher but it came out dirtier than when it went in as the filters were obviously blocked and filthy!
We had no choice but to go and buy pans to cook with, luckily we had the foresight to take a halogen oven so we could cook decent meals!
We put all this to Sykes Cottages but the owner had the audacity to deny that the kitchen is dirty! All I can say is that there are different levels of accepted cleanliness and for us locks cottage fell way below our standards!
We have decided that it’s way to expensive to book a holiday cottage as turning up to a hovel that has cost over £300 is an expensive risk!
It does have an award with 4 stars or rosettes awarded in 2016, but that is also dusty and dirty and it’s my assumption that the whole place hasn’t been cleaned or maintained since the day that the award was given.
Please don’t let my experience put you off, if you like the description of the cottage then this is the place for you