The cottage itself is fine, though very simply furnished and not very well equipped. Bedrooms - Good, nice beds, comfortable pillows, decent duvet and nice towels Bathroom - Good and two loo rolls Lounge/Diner - All fine, except there was no general information about the town of Tideswell, what to do, what to see, where to walk. There was only one takeaway menu in the cottage for Sals Italian, which was closed until Friday, I have left menus there for the local indians who do free delivery. Kitchen - This is where it let itself down, fridge was badly iced up inside, as was the freezer below. Crockery - the plates were all just heaped on top of each other and there were ones that clearly needed recleaning before use, obviously not cleaned properly by previous occupants. The mugs and glasses were a bit of a mismatch, I don't think there was a set of 4 of anything. Pots and pans - the main thing here was there was no oven trays, only one grill tray. More importantly there was only one, very small, 8" frying pan which was bearly big enough for 2 eggs!! A second larger frying pan would have been good. We generally only use the kitchen for simple tasks, however a cooked breakfast and occasionally some oven chips or something quick to put in the oven is nice to do. Consumables - I know it's not a requirement, but it would have been nice to see some of the following in the kitchen: tin foil, clingfilm, greaseproof paper, a few tea bags/coffee/sugar to get started and ideally a pint of milk in the fridge. There was washing up liquid there, but barely enough for one/two washes so we had to go to Coop to buy more, along with tinfoil/clingfilm There was also no bin bags or information on recycling glass/paper etc. It wouldn't deter us from coming back, but I hope you appreciate these simple things can make the holiday cottage so much better for minimal cost.
