House with character - 3 rooms - 4/5 persons

We've just returned from a four night stay at this property and overall we were a little disappointed. We are a family of four - Mum & Dad plus two boys of 5 and 7. We purposefully picked a property with a pool because we were looking forward to lounging about for a few days. However, the pool is not beside the property. It is attached to & behind the owners property. Although they weren't using it, it's just not the same when you have to leave your own plot and walk behind a museum (owned by the owners - very strange set up!) and some outbuildings that seemed like a family workshop, to get to the pool.

The owners have a large alsation dog and one of my sons was very afraid of it, as was I. Not that the dog seemed fierce - quite the contrary. But he did bound over to you when you opened your gate and both my son and I are afraid of large dogs, whether that's warranted or not, so this impacted on us.

The house itself is cute enough and has everything you need. We did find it rather cobwebby and dusty to be honest and much of the cutlery and other utensils, pots etc were not properly clean.

Also, there seemed to be some confusion about payment. We paid online on 21st Aug, with our arrival date of 27th Aug. The owner seemed to think I was to pay her directly and on the day before our departure, even though I showed her on my phone the details of the money leaving my account, she was saying she hadn't received anything. Luckily I speak French and was able to understand and have a conversation about this! It was somewhat annoying to even have to have this conversation and "defend" the fact we had already paid.

It was inexpensive and so as regards value for money, it probably delivered well enough. We wouldn't go back though, based on our own experience.