Dog Friendly Gwynedd Holiday Cottages

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Stella - Verified booking

  The location of the Chapel was ideal to explore.

  Lovely coastal drives and beaches. Only 35mins to Caernarfon and quicker into mountains. First impressions on arrival were not good, especially on seeing all the stuff crammed into the yard, looked very messy. Was this part of the chapel? Do the owners live next door? The appearance of their property lets the Chapel down. It would have been nice to have been informed that the back part of the property was owned/tenanted out to someone.. To then find out that the area above the laundry room and downstairs bedroom were occupied by next door was another disappointment. The welcome guide advised that when sitting on the bench outside you have to be respectful/quiet/mindful of this. So we felt we couldn’t on the nice days sit outside so as not to upset the neighbours. Also if I’m honest looking at the messy yard was a put off. On your holiday you want to relax and enjoy yourself but we felt rather constricted. I feel that you should make people aware of this, so they have the full facts about the property they are booking. Maybe make an area at the front away from the neighbours for outside dining. The facilities of the Chapel were amazing and top notch. Loved that there were the games and DVD’s. Kitchen was well equipped with pans, dishes and baking trays ( which is a must when self catering). The pool table and football table were a great addition. A let down was having only one TV. TV’s in bedrooms in this building would have solved the sound problem or even a rethink to the layout. Where the TV is at the moment and because of it being a chapel there needs to more soft furnishings (curtains, blinds) to soak up the acoustics. Or move the TV down to eye level along with the speakers so the sound is hitting you at the right level rather than bouncing from wall to wall. Or even move the dinning table, pool table & football table into the Lounge area and the lounge area where they are under the lower ceiling. This may elevate some of the sound problems. Of course we didn’t spend all our time watching TV but when family members did it was difficult to hear because of the high ceiling and position of the TV. Cleanliness in general was good but there were several kitchen items that hadn’t been cleaned. We presume these were cleaned by the previous guests. So maybe spend time checking all in order before next guests arrive. Plus the bathtub wasn’t cleaned. The wardrobe in the twin room it was full with cot-bed, Christmas tree and hoover. So we couldn’t hang clothes. Yes we could have moved but this would have been downstairs and we didn’t want to be looking at all of that for the week. Should it have been in there?? Maybe find somewhere else to put these. The worse thing was the horrendous smell we had all week in this bedroom. Which in the end made me and my daughter sick. This was reported and dealt with quickly but unfortunately needed more in-depth inspection. The owner was understanding and a resolution was agreed. However it’s Sykes who have let the owner down as I’m still waiting a refund for this to be completely resolved. I’ve call 5 times to get this sorted. Promised payment but not had it yet. The Welcome Guide, laminates and labelling around the chapel were fantastic. Nicely presented and easy to understand - in fact the best we have seen in all the 15 years we have been staying in houses around the UK. The Chapel was also well equipped in respects of cleaning products, batteries, bulbs, kitchen roll, bin bags, tea, coffee etc all the things you may need. The Chapel was lovely but issues with the sound and the smell, which seem to be a common things really need to be addressed. Also the fact you are joined could be simply be worded on the description so people are aware. It’s more off putting when you don’t know. Please take this in the manner this is intended that of constructive criticism. If these issues are addressed this place would be fantastic for a family holiday in Wales.

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• Jennifer - Verified booking

  This is a truly wonderful place with an amazing setting.

  You will be hard pressed to find anywhere better. The views from four bedrooms of the sea are amazing and the twin room enjoys a lovely view of the mountain behind. The kitchen and lounge also share fantastic sea views. The place is spacious so the nine of us (adults) were never under each others feet. It is equipped with nearly everything you'd need. Take something to cover microwave bowls though as there weren't any. It was lovely to be able to all sit outside on the balcony and eat at the table on the rattan furniture when the sun shone! (Not shown in listing pictures.) It was a little difficult to find as sat nav didn't take us straight there so What3Words might be better to use. We fitted 5 cars on the driveway (mix of sizes) without obstructing the roadway so plenty of room there too. We used this as a base for visiting Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) as it was only an hour or so away. We would love to return the next time we are all getting together for a birthday celebration!! Thanks to the owners for opening your home to us.

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• Jayne - Verified booking

  The location of Ty’n Don is fantastic, it’s so close to the costal path down to Porth Neigwl and the views are breathtaking.

  What we loved was the space around the property, plenty of parking enough even for the owners to kindly let us park our small boat there too, the flat space was perfect for our 9 year old daughter to spend hours riding her bike around safely. Great convenient touches like a washing line to hang your wet gear up after being on the beach, hose pipe for washing off the sand or mud. Great space for us to walk our dog too. Inside the property it was really clean and very homely, well equipment and great to have a full size fridge freezer. The only feedback we had for improvement would be the double mattresses we found it uncomfortable. Bringing our bedding wasn’t too much of an issue we brought, everything including duvets and pillows but they were actually provided it was just sheets and covers you need to bring. Just over a 5 min drive into Abersoch The owners were really helpful and friendly. Overall our stay was perfect and we didn’t want to leave we will be back for sure.

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• Joanna - Verified booking

  We had a lovely 2 week holiday in the cottage.

  The coast path and beaches of the Llyn Peninsular are beautiful. The cottage has lots to recommend it and I would go back. It has all the kitchen equipment you need and the sitting rooms are comfortable. however, I would not be the first, from reading the visitors book, to say that the bed in the main bedroom does need replacing. It is uncomfortable and noisy when you turn over. The garden is covered in slate to supress the weeds but you can't just then leave it. It is now very overgrown with tall grass along all the paths and the bramble is now taking over. It just needs someone to go and spend a bit of time pulling up and cutting back. DVD player not working despite putting in new batteries. Does the ITV signal always go off at 9.30?! And no Wifi but lots of attempt has been made to get it if the yards of wiring is anything to go by. So all very fixable. And Penllech beach is so close and the coast path in either direction just great.

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• Lucy - Verified booking

  Property was clean and had sufficient space.

  Main issue is with the kitchen. We had the oven on for 20 minutes and it was still stone cold, so gave up with that. The hob was either burning things or really slow no in-between. No instructions were left about the bins so took initiative and just put it in the green bin outside. Also no instructions left about bedding or anything so have placed all dirty stuff on bed to be washed, but wasn't sure if this was what they wanted us to do. Parking was not allocated but there was a decent amount outside, some times a couple of houses down though. The steps up to the property are quite steep and there are steps going to the kitchen and master bedroom. The garden has multiple levels up separate flights of stairs. Toilet roll was placed in a cupboard downstairs, which is not expected, but at least there was some. Overall, ok for sleeping, but could not do anything fancy in the kitchen.

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