Overnight Break Experience Days

Great idea in general but have the owners actually stayed in one of the houses overnight? I know all the reviews are 5 star but. I am not giving 5 stars for several reasons. There are no opening windows so you have to have the door open to get air in which means if you have heated the water with the wood burning stove and it's summer and hot you will roast unbearable, because you cannot leave the door open because the squirrels come in and steal your food, and they bite and have fleas. The carts for your luggage do not travel across the wooden footbridges very well and a small ramp either end of the bridge nearest to the house would help with this enormously. Bed linen is provided but towels are not, why? If you have to pack towels in your luggage it just makes it heavier for going across the field, bridges and up the windy staircase. If they are doing bed linen laundry why can they not do towels? Some of the crockery was chipped, I expect it to be checked and cleaned before each occupant and in this case it wasn't. There is no where to leave a note about any maintenance or missing items that need attention and in the whole 3 nights there we didn't see anyone or know where to find anyone. The bed is hard and gives me a bad back and the cushions on the bed were clearly not laundered frequently. The covers/ throws on the sofas need laundering frequently not just smoothing out as other guests drop food on them. All in all an interesting experience but it could have been so much better with a little more care and a bit less penny pinching by the owners.

It was great being in the middle of a natural environment with no one else in sight or hearing. Better still being in a cosy and warm beautifully designed tree house. There was plenty of hot water for the open air shower below the tree house and wild black sheep to entertain (or perhaps alarm) with your singing.