Sundown

The single bed mattress had the springs coming through, we had to put blankets over the mattress to make a little more comfortable for our grandson, the double bed in the room opposite the children's bedroom that mattress was also uncomfortable.

Sundown is a potentially fantastic property for a large family gathering. It's setting, on the beachfront at Downderry on the South Cornwall coast is second to none. However, there were too many disappointing features and lack of 'touches' that made our stay largely disappointing. As a family we have stayed at many rental properties and know the standards offered by other owners of such properties. There were some positives i.e. large, well-furnished living areas including a fabulous lounge, a huge well planned kitchen and 6 good sized bedrooms, aligned to reasonable bathroom/en-suite areas. The main Master Bedroom, with its huge balcony looking out over the sea was just awesome. The property enjoys a large garden and is ideal for families with dogs and we were very grateful that the owners allowed us to bring 3 dogs for our stay. There are however, many areas that let the property down and with just a little more thought, care and maintenance Sundown could be the 'classic' holiday home that it has the potential to be. As it stands, it's more 'Rundown' than 'Sundown'. The games room is frankly dire. It had a musty smell, is poorly decorated and just doesn't deliver. It was largely full of damaged or incomplete items e.g. what is one meant to do with a table tennis table, without a net, table tennis balls and a single table tennis bat? We were unable to successfully use the wood burner, as there were inadequate tools for cleaning and using safely. Sadly, no kindling was made available for us. The kitchen was cosmetically beautiful and well-designed but the quality of the cookware and cooking utensils in particular was pretty poor, with badly scratched non-stick surfaces on trays and frying-pans (most of the latter I had to re-secure wobbly/loose handles to make them safe). The dishwasher trays were also in poor condition with many broken and rusting stems on the bottom tray, making loading difficult. The bedrooms were of a good size with nice bedroom linen but in general the quality of the mattresses (as pointed out on another review), were poor and didn't allow for a quality sleep. Finally, one of the selling points of the property was the availability of access from the garden directly onto the fabulous beach below. However, on my first venture to the beach, I slipped on an insecure/wobbling step which meant I fell some 17 steps to the beach, sustaining broken skin and severe bruising. Without over-dramatising the incident, I could have ended-up with broken limbs or (at worse) a fatal injury, particularly given that the bottom few steps were concrete. Rather than secure/repair the steps, our access from the garden to the beach was removed, which was one of the reasons we booked this property. All in all 'Sundown' proved to be a significant 'let down' for us… ...

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We had a fantastic relaxing holiday amazing house and a fantastic location.

The most relaxing and enjoyable holiday. Direct access to the beach and large garden for children and dogs to have the best time. Never tired of the uninterrupted sea view. A very special property.

Sundown is a spacious, well equipped, luxurious house in a great location. We had a family hoilday 10 adults and 3 dogs plenty of indoor and outdoor space and parking Super secure garden with direct access to the beach. We had such fun walking to Portwinkle to cafe and back , walking to Seaton fantastic cafe great value and great views, walking round Cawsand bay headland, boats trips to Looe Island - can only land if dogs not with you but a lovely trip out, train to Liskeard and back, shopping at Trago Mill, taxi to Polperro and walking back to Looe and fantastic visit to Cotehele spent 3 hours wandering round the park with our dog Great hoilday in a great location thank you....

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