Kirkwood Drive

Great accommodation,clean and comfortable. Lovely walk into Durham city centre.

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This was a very suitable property for our needs, being a family of 3 who like our own rooms. It was neat, tidy and reasonably clean with what we needed for tea-making, heating up food, basic cooking and living. Being relatively close to the city centre, we only needed to get an Uber at very reasonable cost to the "Offer Day" run by the University of Durham for our daughter. For this we started at "The Castle" which was jut as well, it would have been quite an uphill walk from the city centre itself! We found getting about easy, but didn't want to risk getting lost by walking from the property. The beds were comfy and everything worked! The water was scalding hot, which was great to ensure really warm baths in the chill of the evening in the house.

The key safe was very sticky to open on arrival. It was a struggle to open but my husband did this, It is always a worry to get keys from a key safe, Here, even with the correct combination, it took quite a lot of persuading to finally open. The back door key is sticky to open too, so I advise entering from the front on arrival. The house was rather chilly! I guess we are cossetted southerners, so maybe that was just us. It was fair to say we weren't in much, but the chill in the downstairs rooms in particular was notable in the morning when getting a cuppa or at night, when sorting out supper (if we didn't go out). I could have called the owners to find out how to turn on the central heating, but felt it wasn't an emergency, so coped. There were no instructions however, as how to operate the "menu" on the central heating/water heating wall mounted device in the kitchen. I was not confident enough to try as I didn't want to do interfere with hot water. I had to buy a second jumper in the end, to manage sitting in the house but stayed warm with a hot water bottle I happened to bring along with me at night. In the end, We stayed at the end of April, it was still cold though. I left the property early to stay with friends on my last night there as I found it a bit dismal sitting in the chill and couldn't stay out all day. The facilities are basic to the point of spartan, but sufficed. For example, there was a single, partially used, pump operated soap dispenser in the main bathrooms, but no soap in the downstairs bathroom where my husband slept. The kitchen did have hand soap and a basic tea/coffee/sugars and milk hospitality tray with some biscuits - but just the minimum for a day or so. Naturally, you'd buy your own groceries, as needed, but it was notably rudimentary supplies. The windows didn't all have blinds or curtains.

Great property, my team stated the best house they have stayed in.

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wasn't equipped for 8 people