Mallard Cottage Guest House

Happy It was amazing lovely host

. Very friendly welcome, and excellent breakfast. Pity the television hadn't been connected in our room, aerial was in situ.

My husband and I stayed here recently while visiting a friend who lives just a short walk away, and it was absolutely perfect for what we needed! The bed was a little more firm that we are used to, but that seems to be a common thing we encountered with UK beds, in general and is not a complaint about this establishment in any way. The owner was very helpful and pleasant, and we would definitely consider staying here again for future visits!

As the property was called "Mallard Cottage" and there were pictures of a lake I had visions of a little cottage by a lake. What transpired was a room in a house on a busy road opposite a lake. The room had nothing but a bed and chests of drawers for furniture. There was a kettle but no tv. The bathroom was down the hall and was shared with, it seems, four other rooms! I was shown a fridge in the kitchen where there was milk for tea making purposes. It was not made clear whether I could use the kitchen for other purposes. The stairs to my, and other, rooms were very steep, narrow, and winding and I would doubt it would pass health and safety regulations. None of the bedroom doors were fire proof and there was no other fire exit from the room. Our double bed was against one wall meaning that we, in our seventies, had to clamber over each other to get up in the night. There is a pub next door that has live music events. It was very loud and did not finish until 11pm. The road is between two roundabouts and was very busy and noisy most of the night.

Very friendly and helpful host, Christina, especially when I locked myself out of the room! Clean, and well maintained house. Bed was a bit uncomfortable, but think that was probably due to a previous guest who broke one of the support slats! Could have done with a couple more electrical sockets by the bed, as only 2 in the room. Overall though excellent value for money 👍

I’ve never ever stayed in such a cold, uncomfortable room, we arrived to a lady in her dressing gown who showed us to our room, we’re not told that any breakfast was available, nor did we get told there was any WiFi, no bedside light, you had to plug the kettle beside the bed on the floor. The bed was absolutely awfully uncomfortable you could feel every lump and bump,No tv even though there was an aerial hanging through the wall, to finish it off the pub next door played banging loud music until 1:30 in the morning followed by arguments and shouting outside from the pub, and constant heavy traffic through the night, as this place is right on a main road. Don’t be taken in by the sites pictures, this guest house does not look anything like it inside.