Great location, comfortable accommodation, a few small changes could make a big difference…
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The location is great – 10 minutes into Portree and very much at the centre of gravity of the places one would like to visit on Skye (except the far south). Accommodation is comfortable if not luxurious; feels spacious, light and well insulated; kitchen sufficiently equipped for self-catering. A number of small changes could have improved the experience: there is very little storage, especially hanging space; no soap, washing-up liquid, sugar, salt, butter, milk, cooking oil, except random items left by previous guests (which may also apply to the small quantity of detergent for dishwasher and washing machine we found); the bath towels were comically minuscule; there was one, very slim, pillow each; the shower in the upstairs bathroom didn’t work (plumber looked at it when coming for something else, but it’s obviously been a problem for some time and he couldn’t fix it – not a problem once he had found a washer to create a seal for the bath plug, and the shower wouldn’t have been easy to use in the space anyway); the plumbing ‘something else’ (a drainage leak onto the rear decking) had made it lethally slippery, and the day after the plumber had fixed that leak the kitchen sink blocked, and he had to come back. (I grew up on a farm, but some visitors might feel discomfited by the herd of cattle, including steers, heifers, suckling calves and a really magnificent Ayrshire bull, in the field surrounding the house and separated at touching distance from the forecourt by nothing but a single strand of electrified cord.)