We booked in here for our anniversary and intended to stay for 3 nights, however, after one night decided to leave and find another B&B.
We were welcomed into the property by Gail's Husband. As soon as the front door was opened it became apparent that the property was not a no smoking property as advertised in the brochure. Peter was very welcoming and made us a cup of tea after showing us to our room. The room was spotless and very clean, the lack of tea making facilities was a draw back but we would have coped with that, what we could not deal with was the smell of smoke which filtered into our room everytime Gail had a cigarrette. Gail sat in the kitchen for her cigarettes and our room was above the kitchen. we mentioned this to Gail and was informed that she had "not had that complaint before", she did not offer to move us or curb her habit, in fact made no attempt to alleviate this situation.
The room was lovely but very cold when we came back in the evening, the radiators did not appear to work at a convenient time. The thermostats on the radiators were turned up high but the radiators failed to come on until about 2 in the morning by which time we had an extra blanket on our bed and was unable to sleep. In the morning Gail did bring us a cup of tea up to our room and then proceeded to have a cigarette in the kitchen so we got the smoke in our room again!
The breakfast was nice if you are happy with having no choice. There was not any cereal available. Gail did bring us a lovely dish of melon to start with, unfortunately she did not ask our preferences. I love melon but my husband has never liked melon. Unfortunately I could not eat the melon because Gail had sprinkled sugar on it which I could not eat, if Gail had asked us if we want sugar on our fruit or put sugar on the table for us to add to the food if we wanted, food would not have been wasted. The cooked breakfast was ok.
After much deliberation we decided that with the room smelling of smoke, no tea making facilities and lack of choice we cut our stay short and left. We found a lovely B&B with no smoking, tea making facilities and lots of choice for breakfast at half the cost.
