Westmains FARM

Dec 26th, 2021

Dec 22nd, 2021

Beautiful cottage with fantastic views! You can tell that a lot of care and consideration has been taken with this cottage. It was very clean and it was lovely to be welcomed by some chocolates and wine. The beds are extremely comfortable and you can tell they gone with a deer theme around the cottage which was nice to see. You are very secluded and the nearest supermarket is about 25 minutes away in Langholm so make sure you bring your essentials with you. Theres teabags and coffee granules available in the cottage but no salt and pepper which was strange. The area around the cottage is beautiful and the resident hares & pheasants will keep you company! We came as a family of 3 with a 6-month old baby so there was plenty of space for us. We were pleased to find a highchair and nappy bin so it saved us bringing our own. We went on a few day trips to Birdsowald Fort and Talkin Tarn Park. We also visited Newcastleton and had a few meals at the Olive Tree and Copshaw Kitchen. I would recommend visiting the Hidden River Caf too as that has beautiful views (and food!). I would say that our experience was very positive, however, the last 10% was missing from making the cottage a great place to stay. For example, theres literally no mobile reception and the landline phone doesnt work so youd have to stand outside to make a call if there was an emergency. The Wifi was okay (not fast by any means) however in certain rooms you lost connection completely so maybe they should invest in Wifi Booster to extend the range of the Wifi around the cottage. Its also very cold downstairs unless you know how to use wood fire room heater as the electric fire is hit or miss in whether it produces heat and the same for the actual heating system. For the wood fire room heater, we would advise bringing firelighters (none were provided) as the wood isnt dry enough to burn due to it being kept outside in the log barn (we had to buy our own firelighters and left a few for the next guests). Bring some matches too as a few were provided but youll run out very quickly! The water also takes a while to warm up, however once its on, its very hot which is good! The water pressure isnt great though so it takes quite a while to fill up the bath (however its a lovely bath though) and the bathroom stands out as a big and beautifully done room. Therere instructions for every appliance in the folder downstairs apart from the tumble dryer so I had to Google in myself. The filter seriously needed cleaning out too so make sure you clean it after every use. We also had to descale the kettle with a full bottle of lemon juice as it was full of lime scale which ended up in our teas. The bathroom TV isnt working whatsoever, the caretaker gave us some batteries for the remote but the TV still wouldnt work (it turns on according to the light but will never display a picture on the screen which stays permanently black), keep that in mind as this was a nice selling point for us that we couldnt use. Finally, because no one is here to greet you and show you were everything is, you have to explore everything yourself to find where anything is kept, I still after the week never found the BBQ itself. Even though a few things werent working and we had to figure a few things out ourselves, it didnt dampen our experience too much and we really hope everything mentioned is addressed as wed definitely come here again if so. As the building itself, the location and the views really are lovely!
Jul 21st, 2021

Nov 16th, 2020

Lovely place to stay to get away from the stress of life. But one thing was some items were broken in the property, and the hot tub was not very clean, but this was sorted the next morning and we could use it that night. Lovely place.
Aug 15th, 2020