Clean and comfortable, but very noisy from the water pipes. The guest home is connected with the front house's water. John, the owner, wasn't living there when we were there. When the tenants in the front house had a shower or used the water we could hear it very loud, especially in the bedroom. The water would be activated at any time of the day or night. It could go on for a long time and it was loud. Perhaps the people in the front house do shift work. I usually sleep well but I was woken in the night. However, my husband is a light sleeper. My first question to the owner, on December 9th, was “My husband is a light sleeper. Is the bedroom quiet?”. He answered: “yes it's a quiet bedroom/space and the neighborhood as well.”

The first night we laid down to sleep I heard the water going, a helicopter over the house, which started dogs barking. Also police car and fire engine sirens, and a ‘booming’ like sound from the sea front area; so there could be plenty of area noise at night, but the water was the worst. Also, the walls were quite thin so sometimes we could hear people talking in the front house during the day.

Lockbox: We recommend carrying a torch as the street lighting was low (February). We couldn't read the numbers without it. The owners instructions were detailed but not clear enough for us. These lock boxes aren't often used in Scotland. It took a few minutes to realise the numbers roll round. The instructions then say 'pull down a black leaver and open the door' (paraphrasing). Later, we realised the 'door' is the black area outside the silver number area. We don't have a US phone so we couldn't call the owner. Fortunately a helpful neighbour happened to come out of his house, otherwise we would have been stuck on the street with our luggage in what appeared to be a rough area for who knows how long. We were very tired after a long flight from Scotland and needed some rest.

We feel we need to make these comments to alert future weary travellers.