4/5 Good
Selina L.
3 Aug 2022
Barn in Bideford
Beautiful surroundings and fantastic facilities, with additional touches making it a very easy stay ie. Tea, coffee, milk, fresh homemade scones with clotted cream & jam on arrival (a lovely touch), a drying room for wetsuits, washing machine with powder provided, dishwasher with dishwasher tablets provided etc. It was home from home which is rare and well thought out.
However, not as suitable as I had hoped for my elderly mother with mobility issues. As, although all on one level and with walk in showers, none of the dinning room chairs have arms so nothing to help pushup from and they are plastic chairs which can move when getting up as they are also not the heaviest. Their are no armchairs within the barn, so my mother struggled to get up and out of both the dinning room chairs and the 3 sofa's.
The super king beds are luxurious in size and the duvet and pillows are good quality, the mattresses haven't been turned and aren't the most comfortable. They are wooden framed beds and have a post underneath in the middle (probably for support) but this seems to create a mountain top and you feel compelled to sleep at the edge of the bed and it's not the most comfortable or easiest to move towards the middle of the bed as you are seemingly moving up hill.
Being in the countryside and near a farm, you expect a little dust but there was a lot of dust and dirt around the bed slats of the 2nd super king room, which was on show as the mattress didn't come right to the edge of the bed frame. Also to the side of the wardrobe and some of the furniture in the barn.
The high ceilings make it difficult to clean areas that aren't easily accessible, however there are a lot of very visible significant cobwebs. And, there were lots of flies constantly inside the barn that aren't captured by the fly catcher mounted on the kitchen wall, which is permanently on. The first time a fly was caught in this device, the zapping noise was a surprise, so be prepared.
It is lovely barn and well worth a stay, just a few areas of improvement re cleanliness and the mattresses. Unfortunately, it just wasn't completely suitable for my mother.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2022