Thank you for your positive comment! I'm glad you enjoyed your stay.

I’m delighted that you found some elements of the cottage enjoyable. Our photographs and description on VRBO show a bathtub, no shower. The cottage is over 230 years old and it's not possible to install a shower. Thanks for letting us know the phone didn’t work. We reported the fault as soon as we could. There is a line fault between the cottage and the exchange and the provider is working to fix it. However, the internet is unaffected and it is possible to make mobile phone calls with wifi. In our experience, it is rare to have a phone provided in a rental cottage and rarer still, one that does not charge for calls. I’m truly sorry that your son has suffered breathing problems at our cottage. I am asthmatic with allergies to fur, feathers and a number of other allergens and truly sympathise with anyone that suffers in a similar way. We do not allow guests to bring pets and are strict on this for that reason. We are meticulous with the cleaning of the property and use a hospital grade vacuum cleaner. I note from your email that you had mistaken our fireguard for a dog cage. It really is a fireguard, used in winter with the log burner. I’ve checked the VRBO listing and you are correct. It does list a barbecue. I have corrected this and apologise unreservedly. We do provide a bath towel for each guest, a hand towel and soap in the bathroom, tea towels, washing up liquid and dish cloth in the kitchen. We also provide cleaning materials and cloths. Can I remind you that the property is a self-catering rental cottage and not a hotel. It is customary to leave rental cottages in a clean and tidy condition. We clean the cottage thoroughly but do not expect to wash and replace dirty dishes, scrub food spillages that have been left on the floor or deal with an unduly filthy bathroom. We ask guests to strip the beds in line with letting agency guidance. It’s disappointing if a guest does not love the cottage although nearly all of our guests do love it and find its quirkiness charming. Perhaps a hotel might be more appropriate to your needs?

Thank you for your lovely comments. Will look forward to hosting you and your family in the future.

Thank you for your lovely comments! It was a pleasure to host you at the cottage and I'm so glad you enjoyed yourselves. Do visit us another time!

Thanks for your lovely review - very pleased you enjoyed your time at Gulliver’s Cottage! Thanks too for leaving the cottage so beautifully tidy and for feeding our hedgehog and her babies…. We caught sight of one of the babies and it was no more than 2 inches long! Hope to see you again. Cate and Jonathan

Thanks for your kind review. Very pleased that you enjoyed your stay at Gulliver's Cottage - it would be great to host you again!

Hi Lesley - thanks for your lovely review. Very pleased you liked Gulliver's Cottage. The church is beautiful. Did you know that Thomas Hardy supervised repairs there as a young architect? We've been lucky enough to spot glow-worms there too! Hope you'll think about us next time you want to visit Dorset. Jonathan and Cate

Hi Matthew Thanks for your review - delighted that you enjoyed your stay and your time in Dorset. You would be very welcome to return. The cottage is fabulous in winter, with a log fire waiting for you after a walk on the beach at Burton Bradstock. We love the garden too - the grapes are just ripening on the vine and today, we found a nursing hedgehog with three noisy babies! Best wishes Jonathan and Cate

Emma, I am left speechless by this review which is both unfair, unreasonable and untruthful. Firstly, every second counts during a changeover - we not only clean but sanitise as well - this is what we commit to do for VRBO and other lettings agents. Its hard work and it takes twice as long as a normal changeover. However, on this occasion, we had help from our two daughters and they made it possible for you to get in earlier than expected. I told you that we would try our best and let you know if you could go in early. We did text you to tell you but you never responded. You wouldn't answer your phone either. By the way, we also texted to say that you could stay in the cottage and/or keep your bikes in the cottage until 5.00pm on your departure day too, instead of leaving at 9.00am. Funny how you didn't mention that... Don't recall ever offering you bike routes but would've been happy to do so. I cycled my £5,000 carbon fibre BMC up and down Eggardon Hill today and another 55 miles too. On the car parking space, we parked our 2 4x4s a Mitsubishi Outlander and a Honda CRV and two mere 2x4s, a Ford Kuga and our current vehicle, a Leaf in that space. I'm not in the habit of lying about such banal things. I do recall that I had to send you our welcome note twice as you had locked yourself out your account. Think back and you will recall that their is an option to park in the village too - a two minute walk to the front door. We asked you to put the recycling boxes out (two boxes that needed to be moved 25 yards and placed on the doorstep). I'm sorry that your were disappointed. Cottages are not hotels, all owners I know ask their visitors to help with this. Perhaps, if you want the kind of things you mentioned, you might consider a hotel next time? But of course, you would only have had a room, no large private garden and it would have cost much more. We always try to do as much as we are able to make our visitors stays successful. There was a mix-up on the bedding but we were there within 45 minutes to solve the issue. In our review of you, we overlooked the fact that you hadn't emptied bins as requested by VRBO's Covid precautions, the bath was left dirty, crockery had been replaced with only a cursory rinse and paintwork on the stairway was marked with a black substance. We said we'd have you back. Don't think we will.

Thanks for your great review Ravi. The garden is looking great now with flowers forming on the grape vine and figs beginning to swell too...

Thanks for your lovely review Hannah. Very pleased you enjoyed our little bit of Dorset!

Really pleased you enjoyed your stay - come again soon! Jonathan

Hi Sandra Thanks for leaving your lovely review of Gulliver's Cottage. Very pleased that you enjoyed your stay. Our neighbours have said that you were perfect visitors to the village - please come again! Best wishes Jonathan and Cate

Thanks for your review. You asked and we listened - we've now fitted a washer/dryer for 2021!

Thanks for your lovely review Uli and Sandra! Really pleased you liked our cottage, the garden and the village. Please come and see us again one day! You would be very welcome! Kind regards, Jonathan and Cate

Hi Irene and Ernst. Thanks for you lovely review - it was a pleasure to host your stay in beautiful Dorset. You were perfect guests and the neighbours have all said that you were a delight to have in the village! Come again! Jonathan and Cate