Merivale

We had a lovely, comfortable week at Merivale and do recommend it, as a quiet retreat within easy walking of two local pubs and the village hotel, for drinks and dining,

Merivale is a large spacious house, with 3 separate bathrooms with baths and showers. There is a large enclosed safe garden. Parking is easy on the road. The location is in easy walking distance from the beach which is a mixture of sand and pebbles. We loved the area, Ryde is a pleasant walk away along the coastal path, Seaview is a lovely area with a nature reserve, sailing training school, a couple of pubs, community shop and a coffee shop. ...

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Spacious house in very good location, easy stroll to beach, fully enclosed rear garden. 3 good sized bathrooms with plenty of hot water, comfy beds. Parking space only suitable for a small car but plenty of room on road outside the house. Little room in kitchen for own goods as cupboards so full. Some issues with doors not closing. Lack of bathroom cleaning equipment in main bathroom. ...

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Great house, location and layout. Not impressed with no stair gates, no oven gloves, 4 coat hangers and 7 pegs! Not ideal for a family. Hopefully these things will be provided for the next family that stays

The Merivale was a lovely bright, clean and very spacious house with a very useful utility room. The three bathrooms were also large clean and bright and the showers worked very well with plenty of hot water. We found the beds to be very comfortable and all the rooms to be spacious. However, as there was only the two of us staying for the week we used the downstairs Kingsize bedroom as our as our main bedroom and the downstairs single bedroom as a dressing room because there are no wardrobes provided downstairs, only chests of drawers in each room. Also just to add on a personal level for us we found it a bit disappointing there were no televisions in any of the bedrooms but we understand this may not affect everyone. Personally for us, we found the main lounge sofa and chairs uncomfortable and not very homely. However, the sofa in the dining area was very cosy and comfortable. We had our small dog with us that used the garden but on arrival we found it to be slightly untidy and overgrown so we contacted Classic cottages and they rectified it by sending a gardener around the very next day. Overall we would highly recommend this property and would consider staying here again ourselves. Being that it’s approximately one minute walk from the sea it’s a lovely place to take a stroll and a nice quiet area with the Old Fort pub, just up the road serving nice food. All the local Takeaways we ordered were very good and delivered on time. ...

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