Dog Friendly Cottages In Aviemore

Reviews

What our customers say about their holidays

• Katie - Verified booking

  We had a brilliant week in Aviemore, the location of our little chalet was perfect, 5 min walk to the town, peaceful, beautiful garden and a great pub along the street - The Old Bridge Inn.

  We couldn't have picked a better place for the location. The chalet was a great base, we went to Loch Ness, Glenmore Forest, Cairngorm Mountain, Carrbridge, Ardverikie Estate, Castle Roy and had a lovely walk around Rothiemurchus on our last day. The chalet was comfortable, the bedroom was huge and the bed was comfy. Good storage with lots of drawers and wardrobe space. The kitchen was well equipped and had everything we needed although we only really cooked breakfast there. The kitchen cupboards and cutlery drawer need a clean though and old mugs with chips need removing. The shower was good but difficult to set the temperature, there's a knack to it. Wi-Fi was really poor, neither us could stay connected for long so we ended up turning it off, it didn't bother us much as we had 4g but worth bearing in mind that it could be difficult for planning walks/downloading maps if you are relying on the Wi-Fi. The balcony was great, our dog loved sitting out at night but I'm glad he didn't see the chickens and rabbits in the garden every morning! The chalet could do with some modernisation and although it was clean, the light fittings could do with a deep clean, cobwebs around the windows and the kitchen cupboards. They're the kind of things you ignore in your own house until you get around to it so it didn't really bother us. Small improvements such as hand soap and a guest book (I like to see where others have visited and travelled from) would be welcomed. Communication with the host was really easy, her Dad lives next door and is a really amiable, friendly man as well. Overall we had a brilliant week, we were lucky with the weather and would definitely stay here again when we return to Aviemore. A great little find in a stunning part of Scotland.

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• Neil - Verified booking

  The house on paper was exactly what we were looking for unfortunately it came up well short.

  Positives: Location in the Cairngorms is excellent, bedrooms comfortable and was nice to sleep in in-between the trucks going past. Good on-suites to the bedrooms, showers are nice and powerful. Negatives: The road noise outside it dreadful, trucks and cars go past the house morning, noon and night, one after another with the combination of the railway only slightly further on its not a peaceful night sleep. Aviemore has two access roads to the A9 anyone going north goes past the house. Downstairs each room only has a single ceiling light which has a Edison bulb with copper shade, it may look nice but its very dark and the light emitted is very orange. To do any cooking at night you have to move the 2 LED lounge lamps in the kitchen so you can see what you are doing. The carpet was not attached to its carpet runner at the top of the stairs and it slipped as I going down the stairs and I landed on my backside; not a great start to the holiday! The house was cold when we arrived, manually turning the heating on in the garage brought the boiler to life but no heat. Each room has its own thermostat we turned these up high and still no heat. In the end despite travelling 550 miles to get there we decided to go and get some fire wood and matches for the lounge wood burner as none is provided. This helped but is also broke. The air closer vent to slow the burning down doesn't seem to do anything so we get a roaring fire going very quickly but it burns through the wood within minutes. In the end we decided to leave early, very disappointing.

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• John - Verified booking

  The house itself is spacious and a good location for walking to the shops for a browse.

  Regarding comments about the road noise, the noise from the adjacent main road can be heard from upstairs & downstairs bedrooms, but it didn't bother us. The one thing I had to go and buy was a hairdryer as there wasn't one provided. A tip for the cleaners - take out the sponge filters from the hoover and wash through every month or so to stop the hoover from smelling dirty. Peg on the washing line and dry before replacing and using the hoover again. In the information pack it just states refuse collected on Wednesday. Had to look on The Highlands Council web site to see whether it was for general waste or recycling. Found it was general waste during our stay, so placed bin out on night before and it wasn't collected. The bin was already half full of waste from previous renters. We contacted the council to make them aware that it hadn't been collected. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay and would hope to return again sometime in the future.

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• Simon - Verified booking

  This is a fantastic alpine style lodge in the heart of Aviemore.

  There is very easy access to all the amenities Aviemore has to offer and we were never far away from something to do, Rothiemurchus being virtually on our doorstep and the skiing 20 minutes up the road. For walkers there are plenty of routes for all abilities, be those easy strolls around Loch Morlich or for the hardcore, Cairngorm itself. For the scotch drinker the surrounding towns and villages are a mecca, with so many famous distilleries being fed by the Spey river. Everything is easily accesible and well serviced by road (except when the snow gates are closed!). We also took the train and spent a day in and around Inverness, and found the service to be very reliable. All in all we had a fantastic week, doing good things, in a beautiful place with friendly people. What's not to make us come back again?

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• Doreen - Verified booking

  The accommodation was lovely, well situated for the event we were there for (Thunder in the Glens) and already booked for next year.

  The shared garden was lovely and the gate at the bottom which lead to a bridge over the burn, into a meadow and then through some trees to the banks of the Spey was a favourite of my two dogs who joined me for the latter part of the booking after the rest of the party had headed home. The big doors to outside from the family room were stuck, probably swollen from the amount of rain in the area this summer but that was a minor inconvenience which we didn't bother the owners with, other than that the accommodation was near perfect, the one thing that was missing for pet owners I think was a fenced off area for the dogs to sit outside (mine are still puppyish so a secure area would have been welcomed), that secure are under the upper veranda would have made the near in 'near perfect disappear'.

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