Cedar Cottages Blackmans Bay - Pays Suite

We have stayed in this property before and love its proximity to the beach and family. It is roomy and comfortable. It appears the property has experienced some wear-and-tear since our previous stay (e.g. the carpets could benefit from a steam-clean and the bathroom sink didn’t have a strainer, so I was in constant fear of losing my earrings!), but is otherwise fantastic.

Excellent, clean, great set up, great location

Checked in at 9pm went to bed, checked out at 6am next morning

The kitchen is well equipped, the wifi worked and there was a washing machine. Unfortunately we didn’t get off to a good start. We arrived at the property to find it had not been cleaned from the last stay. The owner suggested we go out for dinner whilst the house was cleaned. (A cleaner was called in) Not ideal as we had been on the road all day also not what you would expect when paying for accommodation. It was quite inconvenient and the lack of an apology or some kind of recompense left us a little unhappy. To be fair the owner did sort out the issue. And after that we had a perfectly pleasant stay. The accommodation is fine for a group. Although the steps leading to the property were not ideal for some of the elderly gentleman staying with us.

We had a function at Kingston Saturday afternoon. Check in is usually 4pm, which is very late compared to other places I have stayed , with Stayz. Stefan, the host, kindly let us check in @ 1.30pm. He also responded quickly to communication, especially as I was & had been having trouble accessing the Stayz inbox, which contained relevant information for our stay & accessing the unit. But unfortunately we weren't able to get a later check out.(10 am) place was clean, warm and easy location. We had a portacot in the main room, but unfortunately no jug for heating a baby's bottle. The only other thing I found unusual was that we were required to strip the beds, have never been asked to do this at other locations. As when we wanted to have a relaxing get away, after a very hectic 12months of appts & doctors, this just added extra angst as we also paid a cleaning fee.