“Job’s Cottage is situated in a quiet side road in Snettisham.”
It has good off-road parking for two medium sized cars. The place is well decorated and has a well maintained private garden. The wifi is good and suitable for streaming films etc on the nice big TV. The village centre is only a fifteen-minute walk away. There’s a good CoOp that stocks pretty much all you’ll need but, for a bigger shop, there’s a huge Tesco and Sainsbury’s on the A149, just outside Kings Lynn. There’s a bus stop at the end of the road and is just a five-minute walk away. There are two pubs in the village, both very different and they serve food every day. There’s a coffee shop/cafe and a ‘posh’ restaurant! The Granary in Station Rd is well worth a visit. It’s an antique centre plus a great café that serves homemade cakes, cream teas and breakfasts using locally sourced produce. If you like wildlife there are some very good nature reserves nearby: RSPB Snettisham, RSPB Titchwell and NWT Cley Marshes. The facilities at the cottage are good but there are a few things that would help improve the stay. a) In the bathroom a vanity mirror and a shelf in the shower(s) for toiletries would be useful. There is just a large wall mirror over the sink and the toiletries go on the shower floor. b) In the kitchen, or utility room, a bin for the recycling rubbish would be good and a spare black bin liner for household rubbish would be useful. There was also only one tea towel. The coffee machine is a Krupps model, if you want to bring your own capsules, we didn’t as we didn’t know it was there until we arrived and we use Nespresso. There could be a few more hi-ball tumblers and wine glasses especially seeing that this house can sleep six people. There are a lot of sherry glasses! c) A spare front door key would have been good as we only had the one which meant going out independently was a bit of a problem. According to the booklet, there should have been one hanging on the hook in the kitchen but it was missing. A nice feature was the welcome hamper but, as there was nothing in any of the documentation that said there would be one we bought most of the items at Sainsbury’s in Kings Lynn before we arrived. The house is ‘pet friendly’, that we knew, and we don’t have pets but there was an over-powering smell of damp dog downstairs, especially in the lounge. If you’re dog owner then fine but if not you may want to bring a few scented candles will help mask the smell. There were however some real issues and the reason for the lower score: a) There was a very strong smell of fish in the fridge in the kitchen Attempts have been made to resolve this by putting a container full of bicarb in the door but it really needs a ‘shelf out deep clean. b) Some pieces of cookware in the kitchen, mostly metal trays/tins were very dirty and stained and should either be replaced or removed. c) There were no cleaning materials provided for kitchen or bathroom apart from a general purpose cleaner but no cloths, No toilet cleaner or kitchen brush. d) The mixer in the en-suite shower is difficult to adjust to the right temperature, it’s either very hot or freezing cold. The unit needs a proper clean or replacing e) The toilet brushes in the upstairs toilets are dirty and rusty and should be replaced. f) The hot tap in the sink in the bathroom is very wobbly and feels like it’s about to fall off and one of the bulbs has blown It flickers before giving up completely. If it weren’t for the issues this would have been a 9 or maybe even a 10 but given the issues above we can only give it a 7.
Thank you for taking so much of your time to review your stay in such painstaking detail, albeit your comments are somewhat at odds with the very many good reviews which we have received over the last year or two.
We will take time to read through your numerous points so that we can look to address as many of these issues as soon as we reasonably can, as soon as possible.
In the meantime, just to pick up on a couple of your points:
We were surprised at your feedback regarding the coffee machine. Although you are correct in stating that the manufacturer’s name is Krupps, the machine is specifically made for Nespresso capsules. Most of our previous visitors have been able to work this out as the ‘Nespresso’ name appears on the machine.
You are right to say that there is currently only one front door key but we recently had to call an emergency locksmith to replace a faulty lock and this will be rectified shortly with a permanent lock replacement; however, there is of course the external key safe for visitors use if they are going out independently, or access via the back door with the key provided.
Finally, if the provision of a welcome pack was enough to prompt a negative comment, it seems that we were never going to win! Property Owner
