We are sometimes asked, by guests who wish to leave comments which we can publish, and by people enquiring who want reassurance, whether reviews by previous clientèle are made available.  To both we say no.  Our reasons are both ethical and pragmatic. 

All our information is on the web-site and it seems to us not particularly useful to a potential visitor to display (necessarily anonymised) reviews, since there are no means for an enquirer to verify their authenticity.  That of course also applies to what we say about ourselves and to what others say about themselves.  We acknowledge that to come to somewhere like this requires a leap of faith, but our only means of giving you greater assurance before you book is to invite you to speak to us by telephone, for which we provide a reduced rate line.

Our reason for not publishing reviews freely offered by guests, apart from the obvious one that it could reasonably be assumed that we would publish only good reviews, is ethical.  A review that would really be indicative of the value someone placed on their stay here, would not be what they might write on leaving or just afterwards, rather what they might write about 6 months later.  But to invite a guest to reflect at that point, when their life and circumstances may have changed, would be improper outside the protective framework of supervised research.

We can only hope that you will accept that our policy on this comes from our caring for our guests’ wellbeing... but we can add that we are coming into our third year, are receiving repeat bookings, and that unsolicited feedback from all our guests suggests that everyone has gained what they expected and more from their stay.